Hereby Monsters is a podcast about facing the unknown.

I start to float, I float away from the earth.

Have you ever smoked crack before?

We're all kind of frantically searching for meeting.

They have the neurotransmitters. I think we're all

juggles in some way. Yeah, we're not broken. Crazy delinquents. We're in our

last day, young man. Listen to Here Be Monsters, the Podcast About the Unknown on the KCRW iTunes Page.

From the Independent Producer Project of KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Bob Carlson and this is

unfictional. Unfictional is a program of true stories and personal documentaries and on this

episode out of the air two stories that come from a podcast called Arrivals,

Stylishly spelled without an eye or second A.

Producer Jonathan Hirsch says that it's a podcast featuring stories of migration, transformation, and change.

And on this episode, that might be a famous outlaw who made his escape out the back of an airplane

in flight.

Or it might be this story, a very rapid change, when the amazing feet of engineering that holds an airplane in the air stops working, and the miracle of flight transforms into the nightmare of falling. A story from the Arrivals

podcast. On KCRW.com, it's unfictional.

I don't think I'd ever experience panic like that or terror I guess is a better word for it.

Like if every hair in my head had been standing straight up like they do in the cartoons of

witness surprised me. I mean I I felt like electricity was going through my body like

it just zinging. My name is Robin Hollerin.

And the day after Christmas I took my three kids in our minivan and went down to visit my sister who lives outside of Atlanta. When we got there, the kids as you can imagine we're pretty ants after that kind of a drive and her husband has his own private plane, you know, a little four-seater

sasna so I was like let's go to the airport, go check it out. We went down there and he took my three

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