in paris, they say the emotional trauma is just beginning. it will be very hard for her, he says. she survived but her mother was killed in the crash. [ speaking french ]
for the best. considering the impact of the crash and what the crash site looks like, the fact that he s in the condition that he is in really is a miracle. there s no question about it. well, you are of all the gamblers on that plane, sir, you are the luckiest. absolutely. in reno, the world began to wonder at the luck and poise of 17-year-old george lamson jr. of st. paul. he lost his father in the debris of the old lockheed airliner, tossed clear of the fireball still strapped in his seat. he assumed the blessing and burden of being the only survivor. so i kicked the wall while we hit the ground. so i was just sliding through all this fire and debris. george s demeanor when he first came out, when we first were seeing him in the hospital bed and later when he came out in the wheelchair, he was sort of surprised to see everybody there. there was this sort of excitement. remember he was 17. all of a sudden all these people are there with all these cameras and they re all f
i thought they would be angry for me, because their family members may have rebounded quicker or made their life better quicker. i just didn t know how to deal with the judgment of somebody that was in grief. no matter how bad your situation is, it s always somebody else that has it worse than you. and i think it s important that people reach out to one another and help each other out. well, i m dan monroe. it s nice to meet you. good morning. well, i m dan monroe. and my mom and dad, dave and arlene monroe, were both on the flight and died simultaneously in the crash. this is my wife, sue, who i met four months after the crash. you live in the twin cities? or chicago? i live in reno. oh, you live in reno. i ve been there for 20 years. you went out there and stayed out there. i stayed out there.
i have read so much about europe, i have never seen it in person, though. it will be nice to see it. i can go weeks without thinking about what happened to me. but it either comes up in a dream, comes up in conversation, comes up in just normal life. i ll see something and i ll remember. sometimes it puts me in a bad state of mind and makes me very depressed. at the end of the day the whole thing was a perfect storm. 31 investigators would spend 13,000 hours examining every facet of the crash. the ntsb was created to investigate accidents, and really, the important part of that is to have an independent organization that is not connected to any group or organization.
i just didn t know how to deal with the judgment of somebody that was in grief. no matter how bad your situation is, it s always somebody else that has it worse than you. and i think it s important that people reach out to one another and help each other out. well, i m dan monroe. it s nice to meet you. good morning. well, i m dan monroe. and my mom and dad, dave and arlene monroe, were both on the flight and died simultaneously in the crash. this is my wife, sue, who i met four months after the crash. you live in the twin cities? or chicago? i live in reno. oh, you live in reno. i ve been there for 20 years. you went out there and stayed out there. i stayed out there. do you ever drive on that highway that you landed on? yes. but i remember waking up at 5:00 when my alarm went off on that