i m reaching out to everybody. the reason why i m doing this is to try to help others. and that s my motivation. i completely understand where you re coming from. i was there. but if you ever change your mind please let me know. are you okay? yeah. i m okay. i just spent some time on the phone with erica delgado. it s closure to him. so it s helping him cope with everything, and getting to know what other people are feeling, i don t know, i think it s really cool. hello, bahia, my name is george lamson. i live in the united states. i was 17 years old at the time of the accident. all the people on that flight died, including my father. well, he sends letters out to hopefully like get a response in return. but usually it comes out not getting any. and he gets disappointed.
you weren t badly hurt at all, were you? no. i feel fine. i just have a few sores along the side of my leg and right here on my hand. i feel just great. very few people have ever survived a plane crash, george. maybe you could tell us how it went. well, we took off and everything seemed okay and we were fine. then all of a sudden we hit some turbulence. we started falling down from the sky. and the pilot told us we were going to crash. and we crashed. the pilot told you? what exactly did he say? he says, we re going down. going down. and how much time do you think you had between hearing that and actual impact? it was about two seconds at the very most. what did you do in those two seconds? any thoughts of trying to save your life? yes. i covered up my body as much as possible. i lifted my legs up and hoped for the best. considering the impact of the crash and what the crash site looks like, the fact that he s in the condition that he is in really is a miracle.
in 1986 and some in 1987. i went through that money pretty quickly. because i was not thinking about tomorrow. i didn t think i was going to live to five years from now. hannah was a good motivation for me to get myself straightened out. so once hannah was born, i changed. i had to make a change. and that s what i did. this year is my junior year in high school. i went to an all-boys school. totally unlike what you went through. at that time in my life, i was working for my dad. if he wasn t in the plane crash, i think he s be more successful. he was in a lot of sports back in high school and he was really good at it. and he had the life he always wanted with the girlfriend, the friends and everything. and he probably would still be in minnesota now and not in reno. i probably wouldn t even be here.
that is mama. that is sharon. that is shelby. on the planet mars the girls actually don t have any memory of him. sarah was three months old when he died. what are you going to remember from being a newborn. shelby had just turned 2. i get a lot of questions about heaven, about, well, did daddy love us. try very hard to weave him into our everyday existence. if somebody eats cookie dough, daddy loved cookie dough. but we know this. unfortunately, in this day and age, everything is preserved forever. everything is on the internet. so everyone damning headline, every nasty thing that was said. one of these days, somebody is going to google his name, and you re going to find 15,000
okay. that s enough, all right? that s enough. i don t smell it. you forget you can t smell. can i smell? you overseason everything. i couldn t imagine, one, somebody doing this on their own. and two, i just i wouldn t wish this on my worst enemy. i ve cried harder than any man has ever cried or should be able to cry, and my wife was there to support me to where i could just put my head on her shoulder and cry. it s that constant struggle where my inner voice wants to keep going forward, and the good voice says, yeah, come on, you have that inner strength to do it. but the bad voice says no, stay here.