I shouldn't be here. I should have died on a glacier thirty-six years ago.
This is Nando Parrado's opener.
He's not wrong. His aircraft crashed into a mountain at cruising speed, and at cruising altitude. As he points out, that more or less never happens.
He and the other survivors are the only
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I thought there were 16 survivors (not 2)?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nando_Parrado
Yep, quite right - I was about to change that. I think it's that two of them (including NP) went for help, 16 survived in total.
"I shouldn't be here - I was booked to talk at the Triton conference"?
Isn't that what he really said?
Groan.
I still think Lucy Huxley might have been the only person who actually said 'Triton' on stage...
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