rant · moment 20 of 30
The Suicidal Flight Attendant's Husband and 9/11 First Class Story
from 159 - Bomb Disney World · #159
4 min
Tim recounts a conversation with an American Airlines flight attendant about a colleague whose husband killed himself, windshear turbulence, and getting to sit in first class four days after 9/11.
- Tim wants to hear stories from people who became successful after being losers, but warns against making them up.
- He was talking to a flight attendant on American Airlines about doing a family-friendly episode.
- The flight attendant wasn't supposed to be on the flight because her coworker's husband killed himself in his ex-wife's garage after two years of marriage.
- During takeoff on another flight, they hit wind shear and the entire plane lurched to the side, causing a blood-curdling scream from a passenger.
- Tim asks if the flight attendant ever gets to sit in first class when the plane is empty, and she reveals they once did—four days after 9/11.
- Flight attendants have made peace with death because of the unnatural nature of their job at 30,000 feet.
- Tim describes flight attendants and pilots as a group that does drugs, gets drunk on stopovers, and lives in absolute hell despite how airlines try to market the experience.
- Beneath all the cheerfulness and standup attempts from pilots and flight attendants, it's really just people who've come to terms with death.
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