Surviving Plane Crash - Rabbi David Kaplan

nine-year-old izzy bernstein was put on a plane by his parents in denver colorado for a flight to visit some relatives in philadelphia i don't remember which airlines i figure was united flight took off and at a certain point they lost the hydraulic system malfunctioned the pilots couldn't do anything with the plane there happened to be a pilot trainer who was sitting on the plane and he knew the floor plan so he ripped up he went into the cockpit ripped up the floor and he took manual control of the plane and almost managed to land it safely he brought the plane down without hydraulics in Sioux City Iowa the plane on the way down just before landing the plane tilted to the side one of the wings caught in the plane Jack niced to a crash into a crash landing there were three groups of people on the plate one-third were killed instantly one third of the people were badly injured and one third of the people were sitting in a section of the plane that just the section flew up in the air and it landed in a corn patch with very high ears of corn growing there happen to be and there they a National Guard training session in Sioux City Iowa so there were tremendous amount of people on hand to help the injured and one of the National Guardsmen said you know this group of people from that section that landed the court had landed upright in the people themselves they often they were in a crash they landed they simply unbuckle their seatbelts got out of their seat said they walked out of the corn patch now this soldier no no nobody realized that there was a group of people in the corn patch he said he took a look at the office on the six foot eight foot corn patch opens up and I'll group of people come marching out he thought they were apparitions he didn't know what it was in any event nine year old is he Bernstein was badly hurt his mother was in the car after driving drop him off at the airport she was on the way home and she stopped at a gas station where she heard a news report that flight 7 49 crashed and there were no survivors well she fainted on the spot eventually there was revived her she called her husband husband said we're not giving up hope they went to the airport where there were reports coming in and eventually it turned out that their son is he survived the plane crash the man next to him was killed i personally know is he and i spoke to him about what he was feeling when they were on the plate he said the plane was bouncing up and down in a very very awkward manner everybody was terrified and he realized that you know this could be it his parents heard that this was it yet they didn't give up hope turned out that is he survived today he's alive well and has his own family it doesn't always happen that way there isn't always a happy ending but there's certainly a message that no matter how bleak circumstances look a person should never give up hope until they know for sure that there is no more hope you