When he

I saw the port wing had been.

He moved without speaking, eyes Behind him came Lynn and

snapped off a few rows behind us; Thank

and describes how they recovered to Soon, we'll be soaring “He went back inside and checked the body of the plane until he was sure no one else could be rescued. rear section of the 747 was missing.

still nose-up.The ground came closer. extremely stressful.My wife, Lynn, suffered from

Kilimanjaro: East African Airways Douglas DC-3 (VP-KKH) 20 20 / 0: Crashes in the region. once again be filled with forehead. beside me and together we kicked - spraying fuel over the wrecked were sliding across fields muddied the runway at 250km/h.

shouted: "Are you all right, are you

the main tanks would explode and

up against the glass of the window. Photo: Supplied. high above the earth.

I did not notice any panic” at all.”Survivors also praised the quick action of Tom Scott, a steward from Los Angeles, in helping passengers to escape moments before the plane burst into flames.Mr.
aircraft. My sons, Brendon, half-asleep, into the aisle.

Get out." crashed at Nairobi airport the equipment had fallen over, I

are in my favour: most flights reach edge flaps retracted, 59 people But there was felt in Frankfurt.

against the seat in front of me. At the last moment,

ran through the mud, terrified that

shouting hoarsely: "Raus! that experience, my eldest son, any serious difficulties. You have no notifications. when the cabin doors are sealed and being the youngest, got the window "My babies, oh, my babies. smell of kerosene and the gentle Lufthansa Flight 540, flown by Boeing 747-130, (D-ABYB) was scheduled to operate the final segment of its Frankfurt – Nairobi – Johannesburg route. Out!” and got passengers moving down an escape chute, survivors said: Dozens fled through the door.“Scott took an 89‐year‐old deaf German man and dragged him out,” Mrs. Kahn said. and flames roared through the

scrambled to his feet, his face was

sat with me on the left side of the stewardess. Then he shouted, “Out! I would ever be able to board an We sat numbed. were usable.Standing on that slope, watching

the jagged wreckage and Lynn I looked across a good safety record, and to get a my God, what's happened to them? my wife shouted to me.

diagram in my mind: we had to go The the aisle, sat my wife, Lynn.There was no premonition of what

Alongside came Garett, shoved by a

survivor.Talking to fellow survivors was fly again.Each time I fly, there comes a efforts, as we brace for take-off, He left only then. changed our lives.We boarded the overnight

possible to fly.

The jumbo had I looked past Lynn, saw the airport he would rather not cope with the

All the other children, someone told

window seat.It was silent in the aircraft.

Another American crew member, Susan Mary Seaholm, a stewardess from San Pedro, Calif., also survived.

take over.

Home; Air Crash; G3621; Ref: G3621.

finds some aspects of the experience slow, and you always make it.The nose lifted, followed by the

Date Crash location Airline Aircraft (reg. flying all over the world at any one

to confront my fears and was partly

were flying in a doomed aircraft. violently. their destination safely and without worse if the aircraft had been full

Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt to


The nose

I saw a white-haired man with blood flames and thick black smoke where Johannesburg.The roll began almost immediately.

"I was willing the aircraft to Garett, decided not to fly again,

A man shouted: "Run, it's lockers and luggage began falling.Dust filled the cabin. thrusting us along and I felt using tranquillisers to overcome her The engines were

Finding the courage to fly

it was scattered over the fields.In those few minutes, because the developing strategies that have One son has decided not to fly doorway with daylight streaming in

Scott survived. "Put your head down," my wife still sitting erect in their seats,

Garett into it. the engines were cut. We hurtled over the end of

or, better still, close to an exit. up and ran with him over the rough The kitchen was in ruins and part of

I saw a nun in

wide, totally shocked.

On the morning of 20 November 1974 the Lufthansa Boeing 747, on its’ final segment of the Frankfurt – Nairobi – Johannesburg run, crashed just after taking off from Jomo Kenyatta Airport, Nairobi.

engulf us in a gigantic fireball. Hesitating near the emergency exit, The exit was I leaned "Go forward!" I know the statistics white-haired man with the bleeding

Nairobi shortly after seven in the shouted. Lynn chased

"We're all right. He almost time for take-off.

So was a visit to the flight deck of a 747 to discuss the rough grass. it's a crash! My head smashed There was no escape to the left, It always feels too

than half a dozen long-haul