Michael revealed that Dad had rescued dozens of passengers that terrible night. Among them was a pregnant woman named Ruth, who later became Michael’s closest family friend. Dad had carried injured people across the snow while emergency crews struggled to reach the wreckage. Newspapers celebrated his bravery, and strangers called him a hero. Yet Dad never enjoyed discussing those events. Instead, he quietly returned to his ordinary life, eventually becoming a high school physics teacher.
I asked why he had abandoned aviation. Michael looked toward Dad, whose eyes had become unusually sad. “There’s something else you need to understand,” the pilot whispered.
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