The Salt Lake Tribune
Monday, December 22, 2008
Panic, at 140 characters

It may be the "tweet" to end all: "Holy f---ing s--- I was just in a plane crash!"

So texted one Mike Wilson on his Twitter account, providing a real-time account of what happened Saturday night - when a Continental Airlines 737 slid off the runway at Denver International Airport and into a ravine, bursting into flames and prompting a rapid evacuation.

Wilson's "tweets" chronicle the crash, the heat of the fire, the passengers' escape, and the interminable wait in Continental's Presidents Club - where they were not serving drinks to passengers who, it could be argued, needed them like nobody ever needed a drink before.

(Aerial photo: Helen H. Richardson | The Denver Post)



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