Willie Mitchell at home on the world's oceans

I didn’t know it at the time but a plane like that can fly on a single engine. Instead of landing at Port Hardy protocol at that time dictated that we had to turn back to Vancouver (1hr, we were 10 mins from landing) to make an emergency landing – all the fire-fighters and emergency trucks were out. There were a bunch of people crying. I was only 15 and it was one of my first trips alone. The airline gave us a $30 voucher for the food court and then sent us back up to Port Hard