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Mark Godfrey

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
91 total appearances

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Real Survival Stories
Family Plane Crash: Ripping Through the Trees

So it was a carefree atmosphere with kind of no worries or concerns.

Real Survival Stories
Family Plane Crash: Ripping Through the Trees

At some point, it stopped being sunny and it started getting cloudy.

Real Survival Stories
Family Plane Crash: Ripping Through the Trees

At some point, it started getting a lot more turbulent.

Real Survival Stories
Family Plane Crash: Ripping Through the Trees

And I do remember we were, I won't say final approach, but we knew we were near Aspen that things got very, very serious, very, very quickly.

Real Survival Stories
Family Plane Crash: Ripping Through the Trees

It was the tone in my mother's voice and then probably my father's voice too that flipped the switch.

Real Survival Stories
Family Plane Crash: Ripping Through the Trees

Hearing them reprimand our brother and telling him to be quiet in a tone that I'd probably never heard before.

Real Survival Stories
Family Plane Crash: Ripping Through the Trees

What I saw vividly is what looked to me like the ground rushing up to the plane.

Real Survival Stories
Family Plane Crash: Ripping Through the Trees

Obviously, it was the other way around.

Real Survival Stories
Family Plane Crash: Ripping Through the Trees

The plane was falling very quickly to the ground, but I saw trees coming up at a very rapid pace up to the window.

Real Survival Stories
Family Plane Crash: Ripping Through the Trees

I heard the jet engines, the turboprop engines,

Real Survival Stories
Family Plane Crash: Ripping Through the Trees

I remember kind of the point of impact where you just hear sounds and noises and violent deceleration, a crash, just that moment where I black out.

Real Survival Stories
Family Plane Crash: Ripping Through the Trees

I remember having hallucinations for a long time.

Real Survival Stories
Family Plane Crash: Ripping Through the Trees

I used to think of them dreams, but now as I get older, I realized I was hallucinating vividly.

Real Survival Stories
Family Plane Crash: Ripping Through the Trees

I thought I was anywhere but where I was.

Real Survival Stories
Family Plane Crash: Ripping Through the Trees

I thought I was in the bathroom of our house in Houston.

Real Survival Stories
Family Plane Crash: Ripping Through the Trees

I thought I was in other places.

Real Survival Stories
Family Plane Crash: Ripping Through the Trees

I would have been so disoriented that it would have taken me a long time to kind of grasp what had happened.

Real Survival Stories
Family Plane Crash: Ripping Through the Trees

And then the grasping of what had happened was...

Real Survival Stories
Family Plane Crash: Ripping Through the Trees

Completely overwhelming.

Real Survival Stories
Family Plane Crash: Ripping Through the Trees

And I think almost too much to process.