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Originally posted by str8outavannuys
Well I originally had a reserved seat on TWA Flight 800 on July 17, 1996 (I ended up going to Paris that night for my backpacking around Europe pre-law school trip) on Air France because it was $150 cheaper).
Anyone else have any close calls?
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Me, my wife and 2 little kids were on a train that derailed, and smashed into a loaded fertilizer car. 2 people died, 150 went to hospital with broken bones, etc.
We were in the next to last car. I almost upgraded to 1st class, but the agent said it was too late to load the additional meals. 1st Class is always the first car. Don't ride 1st class on a train. when trains have problems its always at the front. Look at pictures of most train crashes and the rear cars look fine, the front cars are totaled. Our 1st class car had almost 100% people in hospital, but looked like it was worse. It was flat on its side.
Our car, 3rd back barely turned. We all walked off w/o a scratch.
You know the bench seals at the end of train cars that face an opposed bench? We were in those so there was room to travel when we crashed- Many people facing a seat in standard seats broke noses.
