The Sole Survivor.

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The Sole Survivor.

Muar, 29 January 2003: All but one of the 116 people abroad an Air Asia plane died when the passenger plane lost airspeed and crashed. The Boeing 737 headed from KLIA to Senai on a domestic flight. The sole survivor, a 17-year old girl was critically injured…and the sole survivor is me!

The lights went out at the moment of the crash. The sound of everything was deafening- shrieking metal, busting glasses, and the painful screams. In a second, the people around me thrown forward into the gloom, and I was lobbed very far away from my seat. It was extremely dark and I could not see anything except hearing my own scream that went harmonically with the sound of annihilation.

Then, it suddenly became silence…and it seemed that I was alone. Quiet and the only thing that I could hear was my own breath…inhale…exhale…inhale…exhale… I tried to move, but I could not do it. There was like a big stone on my chest. Something warm flowed on my eyes…to my nose…sharp and fishy, which reminded me about the car accident two years ago.

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It began with an ordinary morning, which I have to go back to my college in Johor Bahru since the holidays was over. The journey from KL to JB by bus will going to make me tired, and take away my energy, so I decided to go back by plane. Plus, it is not very expensive nowadays. My mother sent me to KLIA and gave a warm and sweet kiss on my forehead before my departure. “Take care Sayang. I love you so much!” She cried. She never cried when I wanted to go back to college before. I ...

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