Text exchange: Wife says goodbye to husband during terrifying Southwest flight
DALLAS, Texas (KTVU) - A Bay Area native is thankful to be alive and have her feet solidly planted on the ground after 17 minutes of "pure terror" on a Southwest flight Tuesday.
Gianna Baur is originally from Concord but lives in Dallas now. She was en route home to her husband when the jet blew an engine at 32,000 feet and got hit by shrapnel that smashed a window.
Read the text message exchange with her husband below:
Gianna: Sorry didn't mean to FT
Chad: No worries (smiley face emoji) have a safe flight!
Gianna: Love you!
Chad: Love you too!
Gianna: Babe I love you
Oyxgyn (sic) came down
Babe
Babe
Chad Baur
Please answer
We just dropped and the oxygen masks came down
Landing in philly (sic)
chad
I love you so so much
I love you. I'm really scared
Please answer
Chad: What's wrong babe?
Gianna: I don't know
It's so loud in the flight
Chad: I love you so much baby
Gianna: I think something may have hit the wing or something f
Chad: You're going to be fine
I love you so much darling
What's happening on the place right now?
Plane
Gianna: We all have masks
They announced we have to land
I'm so scared
Flight attendants are up checking oxygen
Is so bumpy
Emergency landing
I love you so much
Chad: I love you too
I love you so so much
You're the most incredible thing that's ever happened to me
How far are you from landing?
Gianna: People are screaming
Someone needs CPR
Chad: It's going to be fine babe. I'm on the phone with Mom and Dad prayinnow (sic)
Gianna: I see the ground
Chad: Praying
Gianna: Almost landed
Chad: Ok
Gianna: She's praying over the speaker
Screaming for medical help
Chad: Ok
Do you know what happened???
Gianna: They're doing CPR in the aisle
No I don't
Chad: Babe. I love you so much
More than anything in this world
Gianna: She said we are almost landed
I love you so much
Chad: I love you too
Gianna: Please know that you are capable of anything
You are the strongest most talented person I know
Chad: I love you Gianna.
Gianna: I love you more than life
Chad: I love you more than anything in this world Gianna
Gianna: You and your family were the greatest gift in my life
Chad: How close are you??
Not were babe. Are. Are. Are
You're going to be fine
I need you
Gianna: I'm landed
We lost an engine
Chad: Holy sh*t