One on the Floor: The Story of One Household Earlier than, Throughout, and After Continental Flight 3407 Crashed into their House

February 12, 2009 was an peculiar night at residence for the Wielinski household. Karen stated good evening to her husband Doug as he left their household room. Their daughter was studying in an upstairs room. Minutes later their world and their residence collapsed into flaming wreckage round them.

The crash of Continental Flight 3407 in Clarence Middle, New York resulted within the lack of everybody aboard the airplane and “one on the bottom.” Karen and her daughter miraculously escaped. Doug didn’t.

On this compelling memoir, Karen Wielinski has written a shifting tribute to her husband alongside together with her account of how she and her surviving household confronted the myriad losses attributable to the crash of Flight 3407.That is the story of 1 man, one residence, and one household. It’s the story of life earlier than, throughout and after an unthinkable tragedy. Because the members of the Wielinski household battle to emerge from devastation, their lives are woven along with others who’ve skilled their very own losses attributable to the crash of Flight 3407. It is a story of survival and the bond of affection that continues to unite a household.

Karen’s power was examined time and time once more within the years after the crash. Here’s a description of watching a computerized simulation that had been ready for impending litigation. The simulation had been coordinated with cockpit, audio recovered from the ”black field.” Karen tells how she felt as she watched and listened together with her attorneys. 

“Sixty seconds remained… nearer and nearer… My coronary heart beat quicker and quicker. I sat on the fringe of my chair and leaned towards the pc display. A imaginative and prescient flashed in my thoughts: on the bottom, Doug, Jill and I have been oblivious to what was about to happen, however by now we might have paused and questioned. What’s that? My eyes glued to the display, I heard the pilot and co-pilot’s screams and a determined “Christ!” after which… the blow was delivered. My hand lined the gasp that escaped from my mouth as I fell again into the chair, sobbing.  My arms shook.”