Heartbreaking.
In the heat of the moment, I’m sure a lot of folks would leave a message like that.
I would leave out the part about being shot right now.
If there’s rapid automatic fire raining down, I might go the texting route too.
Reassure that kid that you were thinking of them, and loving them very much.
Don’t leave them with a video that will scar their mind for life.
Wouldn’t her best bet be to stay under the trailer? (Of course, it depends on the trailer).
The golden rule of flying.
Aviate....navigate....communicate, in that order.
That was a time to be thinking, planning, executing, escaping, watching, improving your cover, helping the wounded, not freaking out your daughter who can do nothing.... etc.
The emotional garbage can come later. Strapped in an airline seat, go for it. Pinned down under fire? Morons.
Why?
Reminds me of years ago I was on a military base in a foreign land. The local troops were staging a war game of being attacked from foreign countries. I had to wait in a court yard so I decided to call my father because it was father’s day. As I was talking to him some special operators let off machine gun fire. My dad said, “what the hell is that? Is that uzzis?” Uh, that’s machine gun fire dad... They’re having a drill here. Maybe I should let you go dad. Heh, heh. He probably still thinks I was somewhere where I shouldn’t have been. It was a fun day though.
So it is a horrifying message to tell someone that you love them when you are taking fire from somewhere and people are dying? Not exactly horrifying, though I’m sure the daughter was quite concerned and prating that her mother did not become a casualty, especially if the mother was unable to tell her the real outcome as far as she was concerned. I mean there should have been no more than a 30 minute gap between the message left and the update to come. The press just had to sensationalize the story to make it more than it really was.