Hero Of The Plane Crash...
Nov 4, 2018 9:53:54 GMT -5
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Post by Forum Lord on Nov 4, 2018 9:53:54 GMT -5
Something dawned on me today I don't think I have ever heard discussed in detail. It may have been touched upon before but has been lost to minds and memory and I think it deserves to be brought out into the open on its own merits.
After the plane crash Artimus was largely credited with being the hero of the band and crash who was able to run for help and was able to direct first responders right back to the crash site.
Not going to get into the details of his run out of the crash site, but the hero side of this Marine became apparent after he left the Johnny Mote farm.
Little is known about this point, but I believe that the 2 other men who ran to the farm house for help with Artimus never returned to the crash site. They were taken from Johnny Mote's home to the hospital.
But not the Marine Artimus Pyle who (ignoring the Johnny Mote shot him story) was placed into the back of a farm vehicle and Artimus told me how he was thrown around the back of it as Johnny Mote drove like a madman splashing through a creek and fields as fast as he could back to the edge of the woods where the plane went down.
So Artimus was delivered back to the crash site by Johnny Mote as Artimus began going into shock. First responders were arriving on the site and it was Artimus who showed them the way into the plane crash site, but Artimus was not allowed to go back in there. He was being treated at the scene by paramedics.
Artimus told me that he informed first responders that if you threw a rock into the woods as hard as you can, multiply it by 3 I think he said, that is the distance back into the woods they would find the plane crash site.
Since time was critical for the badly injured, some were killed instantly upon impact, but others may have actually survived the plane crash itself, but died as a result of their injuries and bleeding to death, etc. so time was critical to get help in there to save lives. And this is where Artimus is definitely credited as the hero of the plane crash.
He, though injured himself was the only one to demand he be returned to the crash site to direct first responders to the plane so that time could be saved and more lives saved by getting that help to them quicker by his heroic efforts.
So in my opinion, this makes Artimus a hero beyond any and all measure. Injured and going into shock, this Marine ignored his own injuries demanding to be returned to crash site to direct in first responders. That is a hero in my book.
But that is not the only heroic thing Artimus did...
And this next point is the purpose of this thread...
It is little known that Artimus saved lives BEFORE the plane crash!
Artimus told me that he knew the pilots were having trouble. He was an ex marine who worked on planes, whether mechanical or electrical I do not recall, but he was familiar with how planes were built, and how planes operate.
So Artimus got up from his seat and walked or ran up to the cockpit to see what was going and to see if he could offer the pilots any help or assistance.
That is the first step of a hero right there.
Next, Artimus told me he strapped himself into a jump seat or something like that between the pilots. Imagine if Artimus had remained there! He would be dead today as would possible a number of others who did survive because of what Artimus did next.
Think about Artimus strapping himself in between the pilots for a second and how this could have ended up.
Those pilots died like Dale Earnhart. Their bodies were strapped into bolted down seats. Upon impact their heads were thrown forward like a cannon ball at close to 160 to 180mph.
With Dale Earnhart he was able to keep his head on his body at impact, but the impact severed the spinal cord just below the skull killing him instantly in a fraction of a second. These pilots hit the ground at about the same speed or faster than Dale Earnhart, but these pilots did not have the head gear protection Dale did which kept his head on his body. The pilots had none of this and Artimus told as he walked around the plane after the crash before he ran for help that he looked in on the pilots and he said they were both decapitated.
But getting back inside the plane before the crash, imagine a strapped in Artimus ready to go down with the plane strapped in between the pilots.
Artimus told me that the pilots told him to get up and go to the rear of the plane and help to prepare everyone else for the rough landing. Not crash, but rough landing in a cow field.
So that is what Artimus did. Now imagine him unstrapping and standing up and turning around and leaving the cockpit. He would first have come to those up front. So he would have begun helping them up there. And as he moved back through the plane down the aisle he was instructing each and every person on the plane how to prepare for the rough landing. He had been taught these things in the Marines and now his training was kicking into high gear.
We will never know how many lives Artimus saved BEFORE the plane crash. But we do know how many he helped to save after the plane crash. And I can not help but wonder how many of those plane crash survivors survived this plane crash BECAUSE of this heoric Marine Thomas Delmer Pyle aka Artimus Pyle.
He DESERVES credit for being a hero BEFORE the plane crash as well as after the plane crash.
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For anyone who knows or is around Artimus today, tell him I said so! That I love him and I miss him, but he is a double hero in my book. And for any of us who get to talk to this heroic Marine, ask him about these details.
I would like to hear a much more detailed account of what he did after he left the cockpit and began his walk back through the plane to his seat. Who did he have contact with? Who was he helping to prepare for the crash? All of them? Was he yelling out instructions? Was he doing it one on one which is too time consuming?
We need to drag these details out of him and all crash survivors.
After the plane crash Artimus was largely credited with being the hero of the band and crash who was able to run for help and was able to direct first responders right back to the crash site.
Not going to get into the details of his run out of the crash site, but the hero side of this Marine became apparent after he left the Johnny Mote farm.
Little is known about this point, but I believe that the 2 other men who ran to the farm house for help with Artimus never returned to the crash site. They were taken from Johnny Mote's home to the hospital.
But not the Marine Artimus Pyle who (ignoring the Johnny Mote shot him story) was placed into the back of a farm vehicle and Artimus told me how he was thrown around the back of it as Johnny Mote drove like a madman splashing through a creek and fields as fast as he could back to the edge of the woods where the plane went down.
So Artimus was delivered back to the crash site by Johnny Mote as Artimus began going into shock. First responders were arriving on the site and it was Artimus who showed them the way into the plane crash site, but Artimus was not allowed to go back in there. He was being treated at the scene by paramedics.
Artimus told me that he informed first responders that if you threw a rock into the woods as hard as you can, multiply it by 3 I think he said, that is the distance back into the woods they would find the plane crash site.
Since time was critical for the badly injured, some were killed instantly upon impact, but others may have actually survived the plane crash itself, but died as a result of their injuries and bleeding to death, etc. so time was critical to get help in there to save lives. And this is where Artimus is definitely credited as the hero of the plane crash.
He, though injured himself was the only one to demand he be returned to the crash site to direct first responders to the plane so that time could be saved and more lives saved by getting that help to them quicker by his heroic efforts.
So in my opinion, this makes Artimus a hero beyond any and all measure. Injured and going into shock, this Marine ignored his own injuries demanding to be returned to crash site to direct in first responders. That is a hero in my book.
But that is not the only heroic thing Artimus did...
And this next point is the purpose of this thread...
It is little known that Artimus saved lives BEFORE the plane crash!
Artimus told me that he knew the pilots were having trouble. He was an ex marine who worked on planes, whether mechanical or electrical I do not recall, but he was familiar with how planes were built, and how planes operate.
So Artimus got up from his seat and walked or ran up to the cockpit to see what was going and to see if he could offer the pilots any help or assistance.
That is the first step of a hero right there.
Next, Artimus told me he strapped himself into a jump seat or something like that between the pilots. Imagine if Artimus had remained there! He would be dead today as would possible a number of others who did survive because of what Artimus did next.
Think about Artimus strapping himself in between the pilots for a second and how this could have ended up.
Those pilots died like Dale Earnhart. Their bodies were strapped into bolted down seats. Upon impact their heads were thrown forward like a cannon ball at close to 160 to 180mph.
With Dale Earnhart he was able to keep his head on his body at impact, but the impact severed the spinal cord just below the skull killing him instantly in a fraction of a second. These pilots hit the ground at about the same speed or faster than Dale Earnhart, but these pilots did not have the head gear protection Dale did which kept his head on his body. The pilots had none of this and Artimus told as he walked around the plane after the crash before he ran for help that he looked in on the pilots and he said they were both decapitated.
But getting back inside the plane before the crash, imagine a strapped in Artimus ready to go down with the plane strapped in between the pilots.
Artimus told me that the pilots told him to get up and go to the rear of the plane and help to prepare everyone else for the rough landing. Not crash, but rough landing in a cow field.
So that is what Artimus did. Now imagine him unstrapping and standing up and turning around and leaving the cockpit. He would first have come to those up front. So he would have begun helping them up there. And as he moved back through the plane down the aisle he was instructing each and every person on the plane how to prepare for the rough landing. He had been taught these things in the Marines and now his training was kicking into high gear.
We will never know how many lives Artimus saved BEFORE the plane crash. But we do know how many he helped to save after the plane crash. And I can not help but wonder how many of those plane crash survivors survived this plane crash BECAUSE of this heoric Marine Thomas Delmer Pyle aka Artimus Pyle.
He DESERVES credit for being a hero BEFORE the plane crash as well as after the plane crash.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
For anyone who knows or is around Artimus today, tell him I said so! That I love him and I miss him, but he is a double hero in my book. And for any of us who get to talk to this heroic Marine, ask him about these details.
I would like to hear a much more detailed account of what he did after he left the cockpit and began his walk back through the plane to his seat. Who did he have contact with? Who was he helping to prepare for the crash? All of them? Was he yelling out instructions? Was he doing it one on one which is too time consuming?
We need to drag these details out of him and all crash survivors.