Next month will be the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks that killed 2,996 people. But that day fate also saved a few and barely. This is the case of Seth MacFarlane, who had a reserved seat on American Airlines Flight 11, which crashed into the South Tower.
The creator of Teddy and the animated series The Griffins was supposed to fly to Los Angeles on that fateful day, but missed his boarding time. As he stated in several interviews, including CNN, there were two reasons for his delay.
“It was a combination of two things, I had spoken at my university the night before and then I went out with some professors and had a few pints.“
when asked if he was drunk Seth MacFarlane answered “Yes“. another reason? Route problem: “My travel agent told me that the flight on my route was leaving 10 minutes behind schedule. And I’m usually late for flights. You know, I missed a lot of flights before that. So it wasn’t something completely out of the ordinary.“, he explained.
So I avoided a drunken evening and bad information Seth MacFarlane He lost his life in the deadly attack – and not long after, as he was so close to boarding that he only realized he had missed his flight when he reached the counter.
“I went to the counter and said, “Yes, I’m booked on flight 11.” The woman behind the counter said to me, “You’re too late, they’ve closed the doors. I said, ‘OK, I’ll take the 11 o’clock flight.’ And they announced which flight it was. I turned to the guy next to me and said, “Oh my God, that was the flight I was supposed to be on. I missed it.”“
If this coincidence did not change his outlook on life and fate, it is mainly because launching an airplane was not new to him and as he himself specifies.He could have crashed the car the day before“, Seth MacFarlane However, he spoke of a moment of unity with those around him and specified that he then went to sit at a bar at 9am, where the bartender offered him a free drink after such an event.
Listen to his story below:
Source: Allocine
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