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Chipper Chat

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3. I had tickets for that flight.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu May 25, 2023, 08:16 AM

May 2023

That was a Friday. I changed my flight to 2 days before on a Wednesday.
I happened to be in a Hooks Drug Store in Honolulu
on Friday when a radio was playing and I heard that "a flight" crashed on takeoff in Chicago. I just knew right away that it was my original plane.
Talk about a weird feeling for a couple of days.

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