Why Them and Not Us?
Starting with the past, Rossington recalled the events of October 1977, saying, “I remember most of it, the rapid descent, the screaming, my friends in pain like something out of Vietnam. Waking up with the plane door on top of me… Cassie and Steve died. They were right next to me and Allen, yet we didn’t die, so we had unanswered questions as to why them and not us? We all believe in God because we’ve been through so much, and yet we carried on.”
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According to Rossington, the crash is has been brought up every day since the crash. The main thing is that they lost their best friends. He says that’s the hardest part. “Our motto when we started was ‘If we don’t make it, we’ll die trying.’ And we made it but at a terrible cost.”