{"id":2576,"date":"2006-10-03T20:50:10","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T20:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2576"},"modified":"2006-10-03T20:50:10","modified_gmt":"2006-10-03T20:50:10","slug":"colliding_with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2576","title":{"rendered":"Colliding With Death at 37,000 Feet, and Living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/10\/03\/business\/03road.html?ex=1317528000&amp;en=717e7a75d3790194&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss\">Joe Sharkey<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>With the window shade drawn, I was relaxing in my leather seat aboard a $25 million corporate jet that was flying 37,000 feet above the vast Amazon rainforest. The 7 of us on board the 13-passenger jet were keeping to ourselves.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nWithout warning, I felt a terrific jolt and heard a loud bang, followed by an eerie silence, save for the hum of the engines.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nAnd then the three words I will never forget. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been hit,&rdquo; said Henry Yandle, a fellow passenger standing in the aisle near the cockpit of the Embraer Legacy 600 jet.<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\n&ldquo;Hit? By what?&rdquo; I wondered. I lifted the shade. The sky was clear; the sun low in the sky. The rainforest went on forever. But there, at the end of the wing, was a jagged ridge, perhaps a foot high, where the five-foot-tall winglet was supposed to be.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Sharkey: With the window shade drawn, I was relaxing in my leather seat aboard a $25 million corporate jet that was flying 37,000 feet above the vast Amazon rainforest. The 7 of us on board the 13-passenger jet were keeping to ourselves. Without warning, I felt a terrific jolt and heard a loud bang, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,11,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}