“So as the plane was going down, I whipped out my credit card and bought Wi-Fi.”

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Passenger on fatal Southwest Airlines crash live-streamed ‘sheer panic’ on flight

When they saw how upset the flight attendants were, “we thought we were in a really bad place. We were going down,” says man who live-streamed crash on Facebook.

When the plane engine blew up and the oxygen masks rained down, only one thought dominated Marty Martinez’s mind: sending a goodbye message to his parents.

“I had no reason to be hopeful,” Martinez said. People were screaming. A window was smashed out by engine debris. Even the flight attendants were crying. “So as the plane was going down, I whipped out my credit card and bought Wi-Fi.”

Martinez, 29, is the founder of a digital marketing company called Social Revolt in Dallas, and streaming live on Facebook comes naturally to him. “I thought that was my only avenue to get a message to the outside,” he recalled of those moments. He dialed up a Facebook connection, and only then did he put on his oxygen mask.

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https://www.thestar.com/amp/news/wo...anic-grips-passengers-before-fatal-crash.html
 
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Makes sense. What did you expect, that he's storm into the cockpit, seize the controls, and with no training or experience as a pilot, land the plane safely?

The pilot was Captain Tammi Jo Shults, former Lieutenant Commander of the U.S. Navy, F/A-18 pilot. Getting Wi-Fi was the best thing you can do.

The Captain'll handle the rest.
 
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They make you lift your pant legs.

I'm not 16 trying to smuggle booze into a Black Sabbath concert by crotching a baggie of single malt.
 
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Tecumsehsbones said:
Makes sense. What did you expect, that he's storm into the cockpit, seize the controls, and with no training or experience as a pilot, land the plane safely?

The pilot was Captain Tammi Jo Shults, former Lieutenant Commander of the U.S. Navy, F/A-18 pilot. Getting Wi-Fi was the best thing you can do.

The Captain'll handle the rest.
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‘She has nerves of steel’: How a former U.S. navy fighter pilot calmly landed the stricken Southwest flight, saving 148 people | National Post

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petros said:
And have a hysterical airwaitress scream "get your own f-cking Scotch?
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Still flying Air Canada, eh?

Mowich said:
‘She has nerves of steel’: How a former U.S. navy fighter pilot calmly landed the stricken Southwest flight, saving 148 people | National Post

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Here's to all of the knuckle walkers out there who don't yet believe that a woman can do everything that a man can do ... and often better.

petros said:
They make you lift your pant legs.

I'm not 16 trying to smuggle booze into a Black Sabbath concert by crotching a baggie of single malt.
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You were pretty hard line ... smuggling Glenlivet into Ozzie Osbourne! Ever meet Hunter Thompson?
 
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