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Why I'm in Business

Why I'm in Business

So what do you think I'm in business for, my health?

Actually, yes.  I'm in business for my health.  I'm trying to stay alive and help everyone stay alive and help everyone be healthy. 

I'm in the business of working with everyone to save ourselves and our planet.

The 1999 stage play, and 2013 movie, Charlie Victor Romeo, reenacts almost verbatim the cockpit recordings of six air fatalities or survivor incidents.

At no time does the crew simply throw up their hands and give up.  They fight to solve their problems to the end, whether they succeed or die.

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