Josh Clark

And then finally, around 7 p.m., they descended in high winds from about 500 feet north.

down, down, down to a little under 300 feet.

And they actually dropped those mooring ropes, which turned out, spoiler alert, could have caused this whole thing.

And they secured those ropes at 725.

They secured those ropes to the ground with their winch system.

And in less than 30 seconds, it was all over.

Yeah.

I mean, we'll go ahead and go over the numbers.

Two thirds of the people basically survived.

There were 97 people on board total, 36 passengers, 61 crew, and only 36 people perished, 13 passengers and 22 crew.

And then the one ground crew person that you were talking about.

And very famously, it was called live by a Chicago radio reporter named Herb Morrison.

Yeah.

And I think we should either, I'll either read it, well, I'll read it, but hopefully we can replace it with the real thing.

Like surely this is like within the public domain, right?

All right.

Well, shall I do it then?

Maybe I should do it as Sammy Davis Jr., just to give it some light.

No, no, I can't do that.

That would be, even decades later, it would be disrespectful, I think.