Ask yourself this question: What is the first thing you would do if you survived a plane crash? For one White Sox fan that Survived Wednesday’s Aeromexico plane crash, he went 108ing.
Aeromexico crash survivor: "First thing I did was drink a big, big, big shot of tequila. I'm not gonna lie. I went to the bartender and I said, 'Give me the best tequila you got because I just fell from the sky and I'm here to live and talk about it.'" https://t.co/GMaFiqXJzy pic.twitter.com/GaFyC5iXoN
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) August 1, 2018
After Flight 2431 scraped past the end of the runway near Durango, Mexico on its way to Mexico City, Alberto Herrera confessed to chasing down a shot of tequila to calm his nerves.
“First thing I did was drink a big, big, big shot of tequila,” said the unidentified passenger. “I went to the bartender and said ‘give me the best tequila you got because I just fell from the sky and I’m here to live and talk about it'”
All 103 passengers of Flight 2431 survived the crash after heavy winds forced the plane to the ground as it tried to take off. The aircraft eventually skidded off the runway and passengers were able to escape before the fuselage went up in flames.
Apparently, surviving plane crashes is more common than one would think. According to the International Civil Aviation Society, no one dies in 87 percent of plane crashes. This is a result of enhanced safety equipment onboard and crashworthiness of the aircraft.
“It’s the science of crashworthiness that has really improved over the last 20 years to help people survive a crash,” Mary Schiavo, CNN’s aviation analyst said. “Before then, you used to think a plane crash (meant) everyone would die. Not so anymore.”
In fact, there are several other recent examples of plane crashes that resulted in none or only a few fatalities. In 2005 an Air France jetliner overran a runway in Toronto and all passengers survived. In 2013 a plane clipped the end of a runway while landing in San Francisco scraping down the runway without any fatalities. Three people died in 2016 on a Singapore Airlines flight that caught fire in the city-state.
There were dozens of Chicagoland natives on the flight including a priest who was traveling with friends to celebrate his birthday. For Herrera, maybe there will be a cold one waiting for him in the 108 at the next White Sox game.
