Yearwood philosophical after emergency landing
NASHVILLE The singer was shaken but undeterred; she caught another flight
home a few hours later.
"I'm pretty spiritual about it," she said Wednesday. "I turn
it over to God and think, 'There's nothing I can do about it.' And
I also think, 'What are the odds?' I've been flying for 18 years
and had one emergency landing. That's pretty good."
Yearwood, her sister and some friends were returning Aug. 18
from a three-day, 60-mile walk in Boston to benefit Susan G. Komen
for the Cure breast cancer research fund when they heard a loud
pop.
Yearwood, 43, said the front left window of the plane had
cracked.
"We never lost cabin pressure, so we didn't have to use our
oxygen masks. By the time we got on the ground, the crack on the
front of the plane's window was huge, and getting bigger by the
second," she said.
When they reached the ground, she recalled, "It was like in the
movies when they land and you see all the fire trucks and emergency
crews. That's a real experience."
After a three-hour wait for another plane - and a "fantastic"
seafood dinner on the city's Inner Harbor - they were back in the
air.
"I didn't have any anxiety like 'the last thing I want to do is
get back on an airplane.' I did feel like the pilots and the flight
attendants handled it perfectly," Yearwood said. "They were so
very calm. It wasn't a scary situation until afterward when you
think about what possibly could have happened."
"But once I did land," she said, "I thought, 'Good. I'd like
to stay home a little while."'