My captain had just told 187 people we were going to die when I unbuckled my seat belt and stood up. “The aircraft is uncontrollable. Brace for impact,” his trembling voice echoed through the cabin, but what no one aboard that plane knew was that I had survived this exact nightmare before, and thirty-two years earlier, the Air Force had called me Phoenix.
The captain had just told 187 people we were going to die when I unbuckled my seat belt and stood up. While…
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