Krank. Its simple really. Someone asks for help. You choose to give it or not as you wish. Your money! your choice!
In my case a simple response to a cry for help from someone who was there when others needed him.

cools,

Couldn't have said it better.

:ok:

This thread probably needs rebumping, so forgive me for doing the necessary,

Jordan

I haven't been on PPRUNE for awhile now, and today was my reading of this link. Just not fair at all what life dishes out. I donated right away, and wish Laurie a speedy recovery. She has a pillar of strength in her father, Captain Haines.

I'm In!

G

Twenty characters or something like that

I’ve just received an air mailed “Thank You’ note from the foundation. Nice gesture as this is, the 85c postage would be better spent on helping others.

Assuming others agree, maybe Ppruners should request no acknowledgment?

made my donation and posted this on our forum.....hope it helps.....

by the way - the IPA is the Independent Pilots Association representing the over 2000 pilots of UPS

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Remember UAL Capt. Al Haynes? He was the captain of the infamous UAL DC-10 that had an uncontained center engine failure taking out all the hydraulics and managed to “land” in Sioux Falls in July, 1989 – saving 185 of the 296 souls on board. Capt. Haynes and his crew became poster boys for the then relatively new) acronym/phrase CRM (Cockpit Resource Management). He is now retired and has done many public speaking engagements on this event.

He helped many and now needs our help. His daughter has been diagnosed with aplastic anemia, and requires a bone marrow transplant. Health insurance does not fully cover the cost (patients share approaching $200,000).

Capt. Haynes recently lost his wife and son and now this……

If you would like to help, please log onto http://www.transplants.org./
Then click “campaign donations” and then chose “Arguello (Haynes), Laurie” and make the donation of your choice.

Pilots are a wary group. I am convinced this is a legitimate site/cause. It is on numerous other airline sites (UAL, APA, Association of Flight Attendants, etc.) and has been reported on by wire services and SEA local media. A thread on a popular aviation forum has been running for over one month (with over 18,000 “views”), and not one post challenging the authenticity.

And perhaps the IPA Foundation can make a donation…….



Links:

http://yarchive.net/air/airliners/dc10_sioux_city.html

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?e...13X28786&key=1

I ALSO MADE A DONATION TO THE FUND AND SINCERELY HOPE THAT CAPTAIN HAYNES GETS THE 200 GRAND ASAP. I HOPE EVERYBODY CHIPS IN. PASS IT ON. GOOD LUCK BIG AL!:ok:

Done - no problem - wish I'd heard about this a bit earlier - however from the UK with the current Exchange Rates we "Brits" can now send a bit more !

( .... and if I wanted to know about the plight of the 3rd world etc etc I'd log on to an appropriate Web Site - This is about a colleague in need so can someone please remove all those irrelevant and frankly offensive posts :yuk: that have nothing to do with the intention of this thread ??? )

All the very best to Capt. Al and Laurie :ok:

I find it disappointing that real heroes like Capt. Al soon get forgotten, while film stars, football players and the like are lionised for years. Always been the same - Kipling wrote a poem about it over 100 years ago.

I've been carrying a travellers cheque (in dollars) around for years and not used it - I have now - it's literally in the mail.

Good luck to Laurie and Al.

I have just read through the thread, and support the assistance of a fellow comrade (I am an ATC) in his moment of need.

The reason that I donate (when I can) or stop by the roadside to help when I can is not to help as much as it is a selfish act. My motivation is that hopefully one day the wheel will turn, and when I or one of my loved ones is in need, another selfish person will stop to help. - Good luck Al & Laurie.

This is the poem from where my username comes, it seemed appropriate to post it here.

Invictus. (William Ernest Henley. 1849–1903)

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.


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Invictus
 

How right you are - there but for the grace of God go we... and it really is very sad to find how quickly limelight drifts from the hero's arena.

Come on lads & lasses, I'm sure that there a a few more sheckels that can be found - with 70'000 members of PPRUNE that is really not even 4 dollars each. OK so some are harder up than others - but at 100 bucks each there only need be 2499 others to make the jackpot - and I'm sure that we are much closer than you think.

Good luck Laurie, hang in there.....:D

Progress on the collection for Big Al daughter Laurie
 

News is that your donations are getting through - but post operative costs may be solid also so keep the money coming

For progress News we are endebted to sky pup of airlinecrew.net who found the above link

The following is what they say:
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 10:09 AM

Subject: Laurie Haynes Arguello Donations
Dear Capt. Heppner:

The donations to the NFT campaign for Laurie are going extremely well. Donations continue to pour in, both on-line and through the Post Office Box for the campaign, and we are working diligently to process them as efficiently as possible.

The campaign is fast approaching its $300,000 goal. NFT sent the letter of guarantee to the University of Washington on January 6, so there is no financial hold-up for the transplant to take place. However, until we learn for certain if Laurie can be placed on her husband's insurance policy (following the transplant) and what that coverage will be, we will not be able to determine exactly how much more money she needs for after-transplant care and medications.

If you have any questions, feel free to call me at (800)489-3863. ALPA members have been very generous and are a major reason for the NFT campaigns' unprecedented success thus far. Please let them know how much NFT, and the Haynes-Arguello family greatly appreciates their support.

Sincerely, Janice Hill
Manager of Communications
National Foundation for Transplants
[email protected]

Thanks guys - keep up the good work

Also got a thank you note from the Foundation. The same thought crossed my mind concerning postage costs (US to Europe in my case).

Invictus - I promise I'll stop for you pal.

I'm around his age, with a daughter similar age. My hopes and prayers with him and her. (What a Flyer :ok: )

Small donation on the way, and

"back to the top"

(if you live somewhere with an address like "3rd Sand Dune from the Left" and no zip or state etc, the site accepts "not applicable" even though fields are mandatory)

Back to the top "Lest we forget"

Back to the top
 

;) Keep up the donations and back to the top

Nearly There
 

Back to the top in case anybody wants to help the cause.

Your contributions are helping
 

keep up the good work :D

The current issue of ALPA magazine over here in the US just had a blurb about the effort to help her, so that should expand awareness amongst the pilot community and hopefully increase the donations...