Martin McNally
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I never put on the harness.
As a matter of fact, when I was on the plane, the stewardesses helped me put on the parachute harness.
And I was able to clip on the parachute.
They only gave me a reserve chute.
And I said, where's the backpacks?
I said, where's the backpacks?
The back chutes.
He said, you didn't ask for them.
You didn't ask him.
I looked at my watch and I said, Dan, I don't have enough time to have you people deliver the backpacks.
There's about 90 people on the plane about that.
A lot of couples, men, women, children.
We took off from St.
Louis around 2.30 a.m.
on June the 23rd, 1972.
We're going to, I'm going to Tulsa.
And we're about 15 minutes out of Tulsa.
The pilot comes on the intercom.
He says, we'll be landing in about 15 minutes.
I'm sitting there.