. >>> they lost the hydraulic system which made it almost unflyable. >>> catastrophic. >>> they walkedy, is that a miracle? >>> absolutely . >>> it was as miracle for the baby he adopted. she was told she was on that plane, one of the dozen seated in the top portion who survived. >>> laura was air lasted, with very few records and almost no information about her birth family. >>> i grew up, with this believe that i came over on a plane that crashed, and i was a sur vive vor, and, that i, i was one of the lucky babies who made it out and, three years ago, i found out that i wasn't on the plane. >>> what was that like hearing that. >>> deaf vast tating. q.disbelief. i mean not that you want to be part of a plane crash but, i did want that to be part of my history and, that's what i grew up believing. i went to vietnam, and i cried at the site, for what i thought happened to me and, visuallized this trauma and, it was hard. and then when you find out guess what, that's not part of your history -- >>> the crash was also tra make mathematic for her mother. who spent two years, filling out p