00:00I was purser on a flight. We were going to Dallas. The captain called me up. I need to see
00:05you in the cockpit, which we know is uh-oh. I went up to the cockpit and he started to
00:09tell us that the landing gear was not going up, the drag was draining all of our fuel. He said,
00:15and now we're not sure if it's intact, so we don't know how we're going to land, but we have
00:20to land soon. You've got to prepare the cabin for an emergency landing.
00:24The one little caveat we had was that we had five or six unaccompanied minors on board. Small children, as
00:31young as six, so now we have to find people that are ready to take control of the children, reassign
00:35them seats. We only have 15 minutes to land. I remember thinking as I sat on my jump seat in
00:42my emergency landing position, oh my god, I didn't even think of my son. I was a single parent at
00:47the time and had a three-year-old at home. It just shocked me that I didn't think of him.
00:51I was so busy thinking of what I needed to do to get, you know, everybody off the plane safely.
00:55When we did touch down, the landing gear held. It did all work out and it was a good ending.
01:03The training was really worth it.
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