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The plane suddenly slowed and tilted forward. The plane’s intercom sounded and the flight attendant said, “Please remove the life jacket from under your seat and move to the nearest exit. From there someone will give you insertions.” I grabbed my life jacket and put it on. As it started inflating, I looked the life jacket over. It was equipped with a whistle, flashlight, and spare battery. I grabbed my carry on, which contained my survival kit, and moved to the nearest exit. Our plane had landed; or rather hit the water and people started boarding life rafts. I entered a life raft. Once full, the flight attendant jumped in and another started moving people to another exit. The next morning the plane was gone and there were 7 other rafts tied together with ours. “So what happened? Why did we crash?” I asked a man next to me. “I heard the pilot had a heart attack and the first officer couldn’t control because of turbulence,” he said. “Why didn’t he put it on auto-pilot?” I asked. “I think because how the pilot was siting or something,” he said. “Look, land,” I said. “Flight attendant, there is land!” We started going towards land and landed on the shore. By this time many were hungry. I went over to the co-pilot and said, “I have some food if you know who needs it.” “We have food and water. I’m just waiting till later to hand it out,” he said.“Good idea, but we need to make a shelter,” I said.“How do you know?” he asked.“I’m a survivalist,” I said.“Go,” he said.I had split the people in to labor crews. The first to build shelters, the second to look for food and water, and the third to cut and gather wood (To build shelters and make fires). I went with them. In my survival kit there was a wire saw and from the plane there was a small ax. We went out to the trees. Some chopped the small branches, others picked up branches that were on the ground, and still others brought them to camp. I saw a mostly straight tree. I went over to it and called, “Hey want to help me bring this to shore?” Someone came over and we started hulling it to camp. I decided to stay and help build the shelters as I knew some good plans. As we finished the tent- like structures the second group came back. They had a horticulturist was with them so I figured they would have some good food. I instructed some men to start building a fire and we started making some supper. Then the third group came in and we ate super and went to bed. I woke up again normally. It was nothing, but I heard a sound. Could it be? Yes, it was. I looked up in the sky and it was a plane I got some people up we stoked the fire and sent up 3 flairs then put green branches on the fire to make a very Smokey fire soon we had signaled the pilot to send us a radio we told him to bring help he circled the island and brought bad news there was nowhere to land we would need to clear a landing pad for a helicopter he would return later to see how far we had gotten we ate breakfast. We still would need food so again I sent out people out to gather food the rest of us started chopping trees and burning stumps by noon we had mostly cleared a pad we returned with everyone and then saw a helicopter it landed and we were going home.
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