Does anybody remember the movie, “Fearless“? It’s a 1993 movie in which a few plane crash survivors go through post traumatic stress disorder and try to reconcile why they lived and others died. Their minds start to play tricks on them as they start to see themselves as invincible. It was inspired by a real life event.

Imagine being the 7 year old boy and being the only survivor on a plane, piloted by your father? That’s exactly what happened recently when a small, commuter plane crashed into Lake Erie.
How will this boy ever be the same? How does one come back from something like this?

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Rowing through darkness, Chuck Herndon steered his boat toward where he had seen a plane’s taillights plunge into Lake Erie. Then, he heard a faint cry.

“I’m coming, I’m coming,” Herndon yelled, rowing furiously and following the voice. But he still couldn’t see anything until a pair of small hands reached up and grabbed the side of the boat.

Once safely onboard, the shivering 7-year-old boy told Herndon that his dad and older brother didn’t survive.

“He said, ‘My father and my brother were killed in a plane crash,’ just like that,” Herndon said Tuesday, a day after the Monday night crash off Kelleys Island, midway between Toledo and Cleveland.

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