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An emergency landing in a snow storm in Philadelphia.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 March 2008 source ↗
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I choked on a hard-boiled lemon sweet when I was 13. My brother Sam saved me.
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Having breast cancer.
Carlos Acosta
Cuban ballet dancer
In 1989, in Cuba, about to board a plane for Milan, where I was going to school for a year. The visa didn’t arrive in time, so I couldn’t board. The plane crashed and people died.
Noel Clarke
English actor and filmmaker
A car crash in the Utah mountains in 2005. We were driving from Arizona to Salt Lake City to go to a basketball game and the car slipped on black ice and we skidded off the motorway, flipped over and rolled down a ravine. The police officer said it was the worst accident he’d seen in 18 years when nobody died.
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