The Unforgettable Memory of Surviving a Plane Crash

With extensive experience in corporate management, Janine Nubani (formerly Janine Nubani Contursi) guides a consultancy firm that provides CEOs with advice on operational and communications strategies. Janine Nubani has had varied life experiences that include piloting the Goodyear blimp and surviving an airplane crash. 

The crash occurred following time spent on a private island in the Bahamas with her boyfriend. She was a passenger in a 12-seat twin engine Navajo owned by her psychology professor that was making a flight home from Nassau in the Bahamas to Miami and on to Jacksonville, Florida. Stopping in Miami, there was warning of a storm heading toward Jacksonville, but the plane went out as scheduled. 

Hitting major turbulence, the engines died and the plane hurtled to the earth. Ms. Nubani’s next memory was of passengers shouting from the front of the crashed plane that she had to get out quickly before it exploded. The memory of running as fast as she could through a rain-flecked landscape, tears burning her cheeks, simply thankful to be alive, was imprinted indelibly on her 18-year-old psyche.