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The motion picture on a wing and a prayer follows passenger Doug White's harrowing journey

to safely land a plane and save his entire family from insurmountable danger

after their pilot dies unexpectedly mid-flight.

By the way, the role is beautifully played by Dennis Quaid.

Here to share the story is the man who lived it, Doug White.

Let's take a listen.

In 1989, I was running a drugstore in a little town of Mangum, Louisiana, M-A-N-G-H-A-M.

We had no doctors there, so we had to depend on people to come from larger cities like Munro

after they've seen the doctor and bring the

prescription it's 30 miles back to our store. Well my store was literally right

beside a drug store that had been there for a hundred years and it was called

Mangum Drug been there so long. Well I was an out of town or I lived 30 miles away and I was originally

wasn't from this area. And the lady that was running the drugstore next to me was born and

raised here. Her daddy owned a cotton gin there. She graduated from high school there. So to say

the least, she was killing me in business. We were just about to starve to death.

So rather than try to beat her in business, I just married her.

We made one big drug store.

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