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17-year-old george lamson jr., he was thrown from the plane but miraculously he was able to walk away. you weren t badly hurt at all, were you? no. i feel fine. i just have a few sores along the side of my leg and right here on my hand. i feel just great. very few people have ever survived a plane crash, george. maybe you could tell us how it went. well, we took off and everything seemed okay and we were fine. then all of a sudden we hit some turbulence. we started falling down from the sky. and the pilot told us we were going to crash. and we crashed. the pilot told you? what exactly did he say? he says, we re going down. going down. and how much time do you think you had between hearing that and actual impact? it was about two seconds at the very most. what did you do in those two seconds? any thoughts of trying to save your life? yes. i covered up my body as much as possible. i lifted my legs up and hoped
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care. but when it stopped, when people don t remember who you are, it s a very big vacuum. and that hurt a lot. i would sleep a lot. and i would eat a lot, too. i mean, i d do everything i could not to think about what was going on in front of me. those amazing hands of george lamson. that year i dropped out of college. ten years from now i ll be jamming. this is like 1987. i was driving like 150 miles per hour on this particular curve. and i don t know why i did that. i just liked the thrill of being on the edge of death. and i felt like maybe i m being protected.
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 electra airliner, tossed clear of the fireball still strapped in his the cretin high senior 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 then later when he came out in the wheelchair, he was sort of surprised to see everybody there. you know, 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 for him. you know? and we were kind of conscious of that. and yet we knew he had been through this horrific accident. when the images of that moment were carried back around the co