Airline Puts Pilot in Dangerous Position—and It Results in Disaster

Key to the Rescue

This nosedive caused one of the plane's engines to stall. Fortunately, Key was able to recover and pull the plane back up to ascension. However, Key started feeling a wild tightness in his chest. Suddenly, his entire view of the cockpit started to narrow. He slipped out of his chair onto the carpet, completely unconscious...

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The More You Know

  • You only breathe out of one nostril at a time.
  • The 442nd Infantry Regiment, a largely Japanese American unit that served during WWII, did so while their families were held in internment camps. Their motto was "Go for Broke" and they were the most decorated unit in U.S. military history.
  • The people who are currently alive are only 7% of the total number of people who have ever lived.
  • A German and British aeroplane shot each other down in Norway during WWII. The crew met and helped each other survive. Two of them later visited each other many years after the war was over as friends.
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