roadsidehorror
No rainbow. It's raining skulls.
She gets a golf clap.....(clapping)
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Cutland’s uncle said she became ill a few days after arriving in the island off East Africa.
“When she spoke to her mother on the phone two days before the accident she was mumbling and sounded pretty incoherent,” Lester Riley, 68, told Mail Online.
Authorities are investigating whether Cutland suffered a reaction to anti-malaria drugs, the news outlet reported, adding that in very rare cases some of the medications, including Larium and Malarone, can cause paranoia, depression, hallucinations and even suicidal thoughts.
“We think she had suffered a severe reaction to some drugs but not anti-malaria ones because she had taken those on her trip last year to China without any side effects,” the retired electrician said.
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Meanwhile, the pilot described how he and Ruth Johnson, 51, battled for five minutes to try and prevent Cutland from leaping from the aircraft before she slipped from their grasp.
Mahefa Tahina Rantoanina, 33, told The Sun that Cutland remained “completely silent” during the struggle.
“I had just taken off and I was still climbing when all of a sudden there was a rush of wind and Ruth started screaming,” he told the newspaper.
“I turned round and saw Alana hanging out of my plane. I immediately leveled the aircraft to try and keep us on course, then I reached over and held the door,” he continued.
“I was trying to pull it shut while Ruth was holding on to Alana’s leg. The plane stayed level, there was no rocking but it was very noisy from the wind,” the pilot said.
“I was trying to fly and stop her from falling at the same time. I was absolutely terrified, we all were. Ruth and I were shouting at her to come back inside the plane.
“But for the whole time Alana did not say a word she just struggled to get away from us. I have no idea why she opened the door but she did. She opened the door and she jumped. The door did not open itself,” he said.
And being far away from the surface of the earth.Can’t you take anti malarials BEFORE you travel? Wait safely at home to see if you go loopy, instead of being far away from your family.
"Falling feels like flying til you hit the ground"“There is an art to flying, or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
-D.A.
My experience with antimalarials, decades old as it is, is that the after taste is so incredibly foul that you wouldn't want to take unless you had to. Even for a test.Can’t you take anti malarials BEFORE you travel? Wait safely at home to see if you go loopy, instead of being far away from your family.
Deceleration trauma.It's not the falling that kills ya, it's that sudden stop at the end.
Both eventually lost grip of Alana after becoming "exhausted" in the life and death struggle.
Thinking about it over the weekend, I don't think there's any way they could've saved her. If they'd managed to get the plane back down, then what? Would there have been access to the level of care that would've been necessary? Would there have been an adequate and humane way to restrain her for the trip back to civilization? Worst case scenario, she could've caused the plane to crash. I really feel for the pilot and the other passenger, and I think they did the best they could.
I also took this for a year or so as a teen, and never had a reaction. Wonder if the dose when taking for malaria is much higher?What's really scary is that this same med is used to treat acne. My mind is blown! I was on this as a teen, and yeah... I did make an attempt. WTF!