tragedies that overwrite it but what happens is there's after coming into the airport in northampton massachusetts, the pilot miscalculations. and he hits trees and he clips the plane and the plane crashes and you're right, one of ted's aides dies. the pilot dies as well. birchby and more than what managed to escape and talk in the book about what the plane look and it's horrible, like a piece of tinfoil. they managed to escape and race away from the plane before it explodes. ted is trapped in the plane and can't get out. and it turns out his back is broken. birchby decides to rush back to the plane which he does. and he finds ted and in a herculean act, people who lift automobiles or might be pinned underneath, he somehow manages to get ted out of that plane and carry him across the field and away from the fuselage. and ted survives, but they're not sure he's going to survive and in fact for weeks he is dangling between life and death in the hospital and the cause is back is broken he can't move and he's put in a striker plane which looks like what a rotisserie would be. he's stuck between these