Comments Regarding Plane Crash

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Rebecca on Monday, January 04, 2010 - 10:18 am: Edit Post

I was sent the following in an email this morning and thought I would share it with you.


Subject: AA 331--read the lyrics for Lovingdear at the end!!!!!!!!!



THE PLANE WITH THE BROKEN NECK



By now you must have heard about the spectacular arrival of American Airlines flight 331 which ended up in three pieces on the sand of the Port Royal road.

One can have a bit of fun with it now since (miraculously) everyone escaped death and even those with injuries are now all out of hospital.

One passenger (a lady of about my age) and obviously a veteran of bringing goods to Kingston before graduating to becoming a Miami commuter bringing more fashionable items to market, said: “Well, it was a very rough landing but them old Field Marshall country buss dem used to throw (throw) me around nearly as bad on the roads over the mountains!”





That’s the sort of customer American Airlines needs. They won’t get an insurance claim from her!

While not quite up to that standard a few more interviews and observations are emerging. One intrepid passenger mentioned that when he exited the aircraft there was a woman laying on the ground but he hurried away because, as he put it, “me always hear that them planes can catch fire and blow up when this type of thing happen and so me decide to jus lef her. Me did think she was dead anyway so it might not matter.” (There is a sort of awful logic in this)

Another logician remarked that after he got out of the plane he was standing on the beach with “rain pouring down on me and I thought ‘suppose me catch a bad flu now and it kill me. That would be too bad!’







Because the crash was immediately adjacent to the Port Royal Road many passengers flagged down passing motorists and got lifts home. Others called (on their cell phones) the people who were waiting for them at the airport and asked them to “just drive round by the lighthouse and pick me up.” One called 119 and was told by the emergency operator to hang up the phone and stop bothering us with crank calls!





The law-abiding and injured waited for official transport to take them to the terminal. Some of these were delivered in error to the airport police station where they discovered that the uniformed officers there were “unaware” that anything unusual had happened. They were then taken (along with the other passengers that were now arriving by car, bus and foot) to immigration who said that they had to be processed just like normal arrivals and to join the line.







After that they had to “clear” customs although the entire checked luggage was still on the wrecked plane. Why? Well, said the customs, some of you still have handbags, and I see one man over there who still looks like he has a carry-on so we have to check you as usual. They told the immigration and customs that lots of passengers had just gone home directly from the crash in cars with their friends or in passing vehicles and the officers said: we will try to catch them tomorrow and prosecute them. Them is lawbreakers!







Upon receiving this e- mail Stephanie urged me to write a song for Lovindeer describing this event.

Here it is

Hope your patois is not too rusty!



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The tuff Jamaican passenger lands at night on AA331
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Me was a man on flight three three one
when de plane drop down me bawl out "sometin’ wrong!"
It tek up a skid an the brakes mussa fail,
or the tire cudda puncture from some old nail.

We reach right to de sea, me nearly haffi swim,
but me jump out pon ground - only scrape-up me shin.
Air Jamaica lan a night an nevva do me dis way,
If you tek American plane mek sure dem lan inna day.

Me go back out dere jus to look at the wreck,
me dyam lucky seh me nevea bruk me neck.
Cause the plane bruk fe him own. Go out dere and see.
Wing pop off, big tail bus; look like plane not tuff like me!



But the customs man dem tuffer dan me,

Dem call us all from the beach by the sea.

"You tink you can go home just like dat?

we going to check yu - from yu toe to yu hat.



Yu have han luggage? open every piece!

All this evasion; it all haffi cease.

Yu tink cause yu crash yu can tek up an dash?

yu can't pass tru widout pay some cash."



An immigration man seh: "whey yu passport dey?

Yu drop it pon de beach? A what yu a seh?

Yu can bawl all yu like; yu can weep and wail,

if you can't find yu papers yu goin to de jail!



Still me glad me reach back a old Jamdown,

me nearly drop inna ocean but ME nevva drown.

Only I man countryman gimme hardtime,

but me used to that. It happen everytime!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Still laughing on Monday, January 04, 2010 - 01:07 pm: Edit Post

This is one of the funniest things I've ever read. Now I want to know if this was lifted word for word out of a newspaper. That would make it even more funny.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Too Funny on Friday, January 08, 2010 - 12:56 pm: Edit Post

Was this a joke or was it real? I am being serious.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Ninja u.s.a on Saturday, January 09, 2010 - 07:43 am: Edit Post

I found this to be very strange. We are talking about human lives, this, I personal would laugh and joked about. Many of us have travel on planes, and we never know what could happen next. We joke and laugh about it today, and may never know what tomorrow will brings. COME ON this is a serious thing. It is hard when some of us are giving God thanks, and some are making fun. It's not funny, and I think this should see as SOMETHING SERIOUS AND NO LAUGHING MATTER. Sorry if I have offended anyone.
Have a God bless day.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By maur on Saturday, January 09, 2010 - 02:57 pm: Edit Post

I believe we all agree that the plane crash is no laughing matter. I believe that almost all agree that over shooting a runway is a very serious matter and I do not believe the intent here was to undermine this.

I do believe that a bit of levity does not hurt and that we as humans seem to be able to find humor at almost anything. Sometimes, this is what keeps us going. The theory of "if I dont laugh I will cry" seems to apply here.

Even with knowing that I could have been on that flight, because I just arrived a week later on AA, I still appreciate the humour and take it for what it is worth, "a moment of laughter" I do not see where anything that was written is making fun of the plane crash and they did preface it with the fact that although a serious matter, but now that no lives were lost and all were out of the hospital, we possibly could bring some levity to what happened.

We sometimes have to laugh in order not to cry, so let us take it for what it was meant to be, finding some humor and composure in even the worst of situations sometimes. Nuff said!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Rebecca on Saturday, January 09, 2010 - 08:27 pm: Edit Post

I actually showed this to someone who was on that plane and she found it funny. It was only then I decided to post it.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Lighten Up on Sunday, January 10, 2010 - 08:15 am: Edit Post

OMG. That article was hilarious. Plane crashes are no laughing matter, but it is no sin to laugh over a piece that was so well written. It's not like anyone died.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By mnken on Sunday, January 10, 2010 - 09:59 am: Edit Post

Oh geez. Here we go again...


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Please ... on Sunday, January 10, 2010 - 07:09 pm: Edit Post

This proves you can't please everyone. But I agree Ninja U.S.A. should lighten up. Everyone reading the forum is well aware of air safety. This WAS humorous.