Michelle Huntington

So it wasn't like, and even if it was something that had never happened to me before, it was similar enough to things I had practiced that it didn't feel like a big decision.

It didn't feel, I didn't get that shock of, oh my goodness, what am I going to do here?

Because it was, this is what I do.

My natural thing is we have acronyms for everything in aviation.

And I'm not sure if it's the same, Cathy, in the heavy machinery world, but we have, you know, aviate, navigate, communicate or ANC.

So aviate means, you know, basically be safe.

Am I safe?

Am I safe?

The right way up.

Am I breathing?

Everyone's, you know, no one's on fire.

And then navigate.

Am I going in the right direction?

And then communicate.

So unfortunately, a lot of us, and I am guilty of this in my personal life up until not that long ago of, you know, saying things to the world, but not actually communicating.

deciding or going through with anything or knowing what to do.

And so at 35,000 feet, it was, we had, you know, a playbook as such of checklists that we, we knew the immediate actions and then we could refer to, we had practiced things.

So, and also we had a team around us and everybody in that team knew their role and there were triggers to when the role changed.

really started when we zoned in to what we needed to do in an emergency.

And it was just, it wasn't hard.