Last Sunday, a pilot crashed during an Air Show at Travis Air Force Base in California. The 77-year-old pilot crashed while upside-down a distance away from the spectating crowd. Unfortunately the pilot, Eddie Andreini, died after flying ever since he was sixteen years old.
You never know the importance of rehearsal until a drastic consequence presents itself to you. Although our Shakespeare play isn't as severe as the military plane crash, it still portrays the same message. It teaches us to practice and rehearse or something may go wrong.
I feel that this is a tragic loss to us and the family, but feel a source of anger when I see the picture on the CNN website; some of the bystanders act as if nothing has happened while the crash site is off in the distance burning fresh and new. Under no circumstances am I assuming that they aren't affected. I just feel as if they weren't by the way they are standing and looking about.
The author, Dana Ford, most likely feels sorrow and remorse toward the event in itself. She restated that, "No one wanted to see an event like this and certainly...our hearts go out to the Andreini family and crew" (Pilot...Crash). Although this was not confirmation of her own feelings, it could represent a possibility. Ford also stated that "the crash happened away from spectators" as if she wanted to reassure people that nothing gruesome was within close proximity to bystanders of the show (Pilot...Crash).
Resources:
Ford, Dana. "Pilot killed in California air show crash." CNN, 4 May 2014. Web. 4 May 2014. <http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/04/us/california-air-show-crash/index.html?hpt=hp_t2>.
D. Miller. "Warbird Crash - Clean up." Photograph. CNN, 27 Jul. 2007. Web. 4 May. 2014. <https://www.flickr.com/photos/fun_flying/971284304/in/photolist-2tQ5Z7-n7ww8-6T3rxs-9yTKZn-7msawh-R4SBp-8m7Wrs-77tmnY-4c6z1c-71PnxX-6G8gJn-mR9irZ-gVdLpd-jbS9TJ-5sDeE2-5ToSph-a6KHF8-dgmnxe-5SZfaG-e5s8Ys-pRMcX-8Li33u-akZqc1-7g9aSg-92qgnq-65jQ51-5VdnNZ-5fBEqk-akSr48-59dtPA-9W5hbB-8GsGoy-gs9nuh-8WHg3t-aeVMcC-5TdQQa-4Yyqdi-do6JE8-82K1KV-6ju1yC-9w4Gma-6T3r6m-bcffzF-4idfpS-9ZPSDY-ds3SLd-6SYpdt-dKrJm4-8ayFFz-4Y2qke>.
