When I Looked Into Those Smiles
Last Saturday I was all alone, waiting for boarding in Gate 25 Adelaide Airport. Suddenly people disembarking from the plane I was waiting for rushed in. For an instance, they were welcome by family, siblings and friends who were waiting for their arrivals, leaving me in a cold stone. I was standing still for a moment, looking at the scene where people welcoming, smiling and hugging each other happily, until I realized that there were tears in each corner of my eyes.
The scene reminded me of something I watched on TV recently, an investigation of the DC 10 American Airline airplane crash in Illinois (1979), which left its 271 passengers and 2 people on the ground died just within 30 seconds after they took off. It was investigated that the plane crashed the ground (a Trailer Park) after its left engine fell off because of misconduct in its maintenance procedure.
If only the maintenance crew of the American Airline saw those smiles that I saw…
If only they realized how their works were closely related to million lives of their passengers…
If only all flight companies really saw the happiness that I saw…
There would not be a single crash…ever…
