On June 18 of 2011, Joe Lindsey was by the Guntersville airport with his family when he saw a plane crash. He drove part of the way to the crash, and rushed through the woods to pull a seven year old boy from the burning wreckage. Lindsey was awarded the Medal of Honor on Thursday April 12, with top state officials like Governor Robert Bentley in attendance.
The Medal of Honor is the Alabama Legislature’s highest honor given to law enforcement. Joe Lindsey is with the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources—a state game warden—and this is not his first rescue; in 2008, Lindsey rescued a child from a burning van. He does not consider himself a hero, just that he is “a guy who was in the right place at the right time and I had a job to do.”
Horizon Air flight QX-417 made a safe landing after a bird strike in Boise, Idaho, on September 29th.
Asiana Airlines flight OZ-271 had to return and make an emergency landing in Seattle, Washington, on October 29th.:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(794x416:796x418)/flight-attendant-overhead-baggage-1725-2441a67ab42743fbb03058997fb91185.jpg "Plane Passenger Moves Fellow Traveler's Carry-On in the Overhead Bin After Claiming It's 'Too Large'")