Flight 232 Speech

Flight 232 took off from Denver heading for a routine flight to Chicago. One hour into the flight, an engine explosion changes the lives of everyone on board. The pilots lose control of the plane, all hydraulics are lost, the next 45 mins are going to be the hardest of everyone’s lives on board. Some will survive, some will not; for Jan Brown-Lohr this day will change her forever.
Jan Brown-Lohr was the senior flight attendant that day, a day she will remember forever and has changed her life drastically. Jan and her crew started the day off like normal preparing the flight before passengers arrived, ready for a short 2-hour flight to Chicago. The flight would include an unusual number of children, 52 in all, as tickets were on sale for $.01 as a special for one day. As the passengers took their seats and the doors closed, Jan gave the same speech to the passengers about safety that she has given for the last 24 years. Jan never dreamed in a millions years she would through everything she is about to tell them out the window and try to survive herself.
One hour into the flight, high over Iowa, there was a sudden
Jan and the other flight attendants told the passengers what to do, what to expect and ran through the protocol they had been taught in flight school. One woman with a small child of only 22 month and not required to be in his own seat, asked Jan what she should do to keep her child safe. Per the protocol and what she had been taught, Jan gave the women extra pillows and blankets, and instructed her to place the child on the floor between her feet. Jan’s thoughts were: “something that seemed so plausible in emergency training class seemed ludicrous in a real life crisis” (Air, 2016). Nothing could actually prepare them for what they were about to