Birthdate: September 19, 1964
Birthplace: Monticello, Georgia
Soundbyte: "Especially in the entertainment industry, because you have to focus on yourself and your career every day, it's really important to do things that remind you that it's not just about you; things that really take you back to reality."
Country singer Trisha Yearwood had the scare of her life last week when the aircraft she was aboard ran into trouble mid-flight.
During her flight to Oklahoma following a three-day, 60-mile walk for the Susan G. Komen breast cancer research fund, Trisha heard a noise that sounded "almost like a gunshot."
"We had been in the air for almost an hour when we heard a loud pop," she said. While it wasn't a gunshot, it was the front left window of the plane cracking - 30,000 feet high.
"The flight attendant came back and told us to remain calm," she recalled. "That's when we saw the two pilots with the oxygen masks on. Hearing them breathe like Darth Vader made it a little harder to stay calm."
Had I been a passenger on that flight, I would have officially lost my sh*t right about...then.
The crack got bigger the longer the plane stayed in the air, but the pilots managed to make an emergency landing in Baltimore before anything serious happened.
The plane never lost cabin pressure, Trisha said, so nobody ended up having to use their oxygen masks. "I can't imagine what might have happened if that window had shattered at 30,000 feet!"
Neither can I.
This story, coupled with the one about Ed Robertson miraculously surviving a plane crash this weekend, is precisely why I require sedation in order to board a plane.
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