Then marrying his high school sweetheart, Anela. Then graduating and getting commissioned into the Air Force. There’s the competition in Spain to look forward to. We’re getting ready for a big competition in Europe actually, so we were going to do some practice formation skydiving. We competed in parachute competitions and did demonstrations, jumped into football games and air shows and NASCAR races and stuff like that. for a nice Saturday morning of practice jumps.īUSCH: The parachute team is definitely one of those institutions at the Academy that’s pretty highly, highly respected. James Busch headed down to the airfield at 5 a.m. Abi Churchill will take it from here.ĪBI CHURCHILL, REPORTER: April 12th was a crisp day in the Colorado mountains. Busch’s story is the second in our series of Singletakes. JAMES BUSCH: Definitely just sheer terror knowing the impending catastrophe that’s about to happen. And there was nothing he could do about it. He too found himself in a situation where he could just see it coming. In 1999 he was a cadet at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. JAMES BUSCH: The emotions of the moment just kind of overwhelm you-you’re just kind of along for the ride. You desperately want to get out of the way. But you can’t. But other problems you can see coming from a long way off. The high school kid who hit me now mows my lawn. His car was a mangled mess on the road.īut a few minutes later we both climbed out. The impact slammed my truck sideways into the ditch. I went from about 35 miles an hour to a dead stop. I took my foot off the gas but I didn’t dare stomp on the brakes. Then it slung across to the other side of the road and came fishtailing straight toward me. But somehow the young driver pulled it back. Sport package.īut as I approached a curve, suddenly an old Hyundai came sliding into view around the corner from the other direction. There was a stiff wind and a lot of slush on the road. LES SILLARS, HOST: Early one afternoon last March I was driving down a narrow, winding road in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia.
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