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    worried. "Just go," she said. "No," I said. "I can't let another one of my friends die because of me. I can't live knowing that." "And I can't live knowing that you died because of me," Olivia shouted. I looked up. Kaylan had just reached the plane and gave me a thumbs-up. Ellie was about three-quarters of the way up, and Linde was barely 15 feet above us, clearly hanging back to wait for us, but there won't be an us; there will only be one person that will make it. The

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    It truly is astonishing how much we, as teens in the 21st century, take for granted. We go through our day, as if everything we do is a given right, rather than a privilege that we have. We don’t ever stop to think about how so much, could be taken away from us in an instant. It was Monday, June 5th, 2017. I had just come back from an invitational hockey camp in Canada and I was up bright and early that morning so that I could go to Westridge and take my last two finals of the year. By the time

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    The plane is flying about 170 miles per hour .the pilot and I are about to land on an aircraft carrier in the pacific ocean. The resting gear was currently not working at the moment. But the resting gear doesn't catch the plane. The pilot turns off the engine and fly off the aircraft carrier……… Jerry lived in Hawaii for two years because he had a base there. He left Hawaii in 1962 and flew a plane to California. Jerry landed there so he can go to his base which was in the pacific ocean at the

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    Robeson. He is 13 years old and he boarded the plane headed for woods as northen Canada. But during the flight time the pilot dead. because of shock. Brain was really surprise because no one can drive the plane. But before the flight, pilot teach him how to drive it. But it was really short lesson. Suddenly, the plane crashed into a lake in the Canadian woods. That mean he had to survive in the forest. There was no food and he has injure from the crash. During survive time he met dangerous animals

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    didn’t. A plane can’t crash a building. It is just NOT possible; I slapped myself hard. Harder. “Wake up dammit. Wake up. No one dreams such horrid nightmare. Wake the sh*t up NOW” I might have mumbled those words out loud. As I told, I don’t really recall any of the events of 9/11. They both happened and didn’t. I was standing, alive, watching, and witnessing and may be dreaming. Oh I swear, I prayed a million times and then some more. “May this be a dream? This has to be a dream. No plane crashes

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    Stockholm/Arlanda Airport I on 26 December, 1991, at 2209 hours. Little did they know, within 24 hours that would be the last time it would land at an airport. The plane landed on a slush covered filled after it had snowed at the airport. Upon landing, the wings still had roughly 2,550 kilograms of fuel left in each of them. There the plane sat at a gate and at around 0200 hours on 27 December, 1991, a flight technician had finished inspecting the airplane and had noted that ice had formed on upper

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    “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change” -- Stephen Hawking. In Gary Paulsen’s adventure novel, Hatchet, he tells the story of a boy named Brian Robeson who must learn to survive in the wilderness after his plane crashes. He spends the next fifty-four days alone with his hatchet and thoughts and must learn to fend for himself. Indeed Brian is frustrated and nervous at first, but eventually he comes around and is more determined to survive. He learns many things throughout his long stay of

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    The Plane On A Plane

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    I almost died on a plane and now they want me to get back on one? I didn’t think I’d have to get back on a plane, I just wanted to be saved. I can’t get on that plane, they can bring me home on a boat or something! I thought to myself. The pilot kept asking us what happened, how we got here, and if everyone was alright. Mr Spinks said, “Well our plane crashed and I think I am okay. I have a few bumps and bruises.” Jena then interrupted him and said, “Everyone is, for the most part, okay. Our friend

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    most of the other boys from my school and in particular my choir. Then as the war was ending and it was supposed to be safe we were sent home on a plane. Unfortunately we never made it home that terrifying day. We were hit by what I now know was a bomb and the plane went down. I thought at that very moment I was going to die. I survived the plane crash and so did most of the boys from my choir. I still wonder today how so many of us survived that fateful day. As leader of the choir I took charge

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    of surviving in the wild alone. This story, or as some would call an adventure, is about a young man named Brian Robeson’s struggle and fight to survive in the wild against all odds. When Brian’s plane crashes on his way to see his father in Canada, the pilot has a heart attack and eventually the plane goes down, leaving him stranded in the wild all alone. Being raised in a city, Brian has very little experience with the wild. On top of that, throughout this novel he experiences a series of unfortunate

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