If my memory serves me correct. And it
usually does. This incident I
believe it was either in 1980 or 1981. I
was on a Eastern Shuttle from LGA to
DCA. Half way 20 minutes or so thru the
flight. The plane suddenly does a VERY
steep climb.
(I don't know how to explain it).
Next.... I hear screams of my fellow passengers. I look out my window
and within a few thousand feet. And I
do mean a a VERY few thousand feet to the right of the plane a Cesna. A NEAR
collision?
I don't know for sure. COMPLETE silence
reminder of the flight. Too young and
naive at the time to contact FAA for
information at that time....
Freaked out when we finally landed. It
took me several months to gain the
courage to fly again. Amtrak got my
business.AMTRAK was slowwww but it got
me to where I wanted to go.

I will always remember this flight. Never flew Eastern again. We all know what
happended to them and there Eastern
Shuttle.

Mike

[This message has been edited by MIKE MAHONEY (edited 01-23-99).]