it is ready to depart for o'hare. tell us what you saw and heard, what happened? >> that's right. we had just boarded the american airlines flight 699, headed to o'hare. we were just getting ready, the captain told us to prepare for takeoff. everybody was in their seats ready to go i was observing the tremendous lightning storm taking place outside. the flight was delayed because no one was allowed to takeoff. out of nowhere the winds started to pick up. just drastic sheets of wind, big sheets of rain rather coming down. all of a sudden the plane, we are talking a 100 ton boeing 757 began to rock from side-to-side. that due to the wind. that was the point at which the plane began to be pelted with all sorts of debris, wood, all sorts of foreign octobers pelting our airplane. it was very terrorizing.