I have nightmares about plane crashes. At least once a month I have a nightmare, often graphic, about a plane crash.
I live a few kilometers north of a Canadian Forces Base, which is home to the Snowbirds. Unfortunately, once in a while, there are Snowbird crashes. Sometimes the pilots life, sometimes they don't.
On April 8, 1954, there was a mid-air collision over the city between a Harvard and a passenger plane. The passenger plane barely missed a school full of hundreds of students. It ended up landing on a house, killing one woman. In the end, this was Canada's worst air disaster, with 37 dead.
While that is a scary story, that's not what gave me nightmares. This is what did:
I went to the Saskatchewan Air Show here in the city on July 10, 2005. Near the end of the show, before the Snowbirds were to perform, the Masters of Disaster took to the skies. Two of the planes crashed, with both pilots dying instantly in front of 20,000 people, one of them being myself.
There haven't been any air shows since the 2005 crash. There have been other plane crashes near the city, one happening two months ago. While I didn't see the actual crash, I saw the wreckage a few hours after the crash.
Every day, planes are flying overhead. While most of the planes do not fly over the city, I still have nightmares. I like to sit outside and watch planes, so I'm not afraid of them (unless they get very close). My uncle is a pilot, I've been inside planes, I've been in the very house where the passenger plane crashed in 1954... yet when night comes, I have nightmares about them.
Does anyone else have this problem and what can I do to stop these bad dreams? It stinks!
I live a few kilometers north of a Canadian Forces Base, which is home to the Snowbirds. Unfortunately, once in a while, there are Snowbird crashes. Sometimes the pilots life, sometimes they don't.
On April 8, 1954, there was a mid-air collision over the city between a Harvard and a passenger plane. The passenger plane barely missed a school full of hundreds of students. It ended up landing on a house, killing one woman. In the end, this was Canada's worst air disaster, with 37 dead.
While that is a scary story, that's not what gave me nightmares. This is what did:
I went to the Saskatchewan Air Show here in the city on July 10, 2005. Near the end of the show, before the Snowbirds were to perform, the Masters of Disaster took to the skies. Two of the planes crashed, with both pilots dying instantly in front of 20,000 people, one of them being myself.
There haven't been any air shows since the 2005 crash. There have been other plane crashes near the city, one happening two months ago. While I didn't see the actual crash, I saw the wreckage a few hours after the crash.
Every day, planes are flying overhead. While most of the planes do not fly over the city, I still have nightmares. I like to sit outside and watch planes, so I'm not afraid of them (unless they get very close). My uncle is a pilot, I've been inside planes, I've been in the very house where the passenger plane crashed in 1954... yet when night comes, I have nightmares about them.
Does anyone else have this problem and what can I do to stop these bad dreams? It stinks!