In My Seat & In My Stead

On Tuesday our nation will commemorate the 11th anniversary of the infamous attacks of September 11th, 2001. My guest on the program will be Megan Ann Scheibner, author of the book entitled, “In My Seat”. Megan's Husband, Steve, was scheduled to fly American Airlines Flight 11 (the first plan to hit the World Trade Center) out of Boston on the morning of September 11th. However, another Pilot, “bumped” Steve from the flight.

The following morning as the details of the horrific events of that day unfolded, Steve went back to his computer. When Steve pulled up the flight information from that day, he realized that the screen was the same one that he had seen the day before. On September 10th, Flight 11 had his name penciled in. Now his name was missing. Instead, these ominous words were typed in the spot that had held his name: Sequence Failed Continuity. For aviation professionals those three words mean one thing: the plane never made it to its destination.

Megan writes, “I'll never forget the sound of Steve's voice as he called out my name later that afternoon. It was hoarse and gravelly…and filled with stunned disbelief. When I spun around the corner and stopped in his office, he was sitting with his head bowed. The color had left his face. Steve pointed at his computer screen and said, ‘That is the trip I packed for. I should have been on that flight.'”

My guest on the program today will be Megan Ann Scheibner - Megan graduated from West Chester University and is a speaker and author. Steve, is an American Airlines Pilot, Commander in the United States Navy, and pastor a small church near their home in Georgetown, Maine. In My Seat is available is at PatriotDe