Jeff and Kathleen Smith’s two sons were playing in the snow Sunday without a care in the world.
But things could have ended differently for the Smith family had fate not intervened before their flight to Canada last week.
“One of Paddon’s homework assignments was to complete a journal,” Jeff Smith said Sunday. “He drew a picture of a plane … and said ‘my plane crashed today. I wasn’t on it.’ ”
The Sewall’s Point couple and their sons Paddon, 7, and Tanner, 4, were supposed to be on Thursday’s doomed flight from Newark, N.J., to Buffalo, N.Y., but a series of events prevented the family from boarding the ill-fated plane.
The couple still have the family’s four boarding passes to Continental Flight 3407.
“It wasn’t something we did do, but rather, something that we didn’t do,” said Jeff Smith from his cottage in Canada’s Port Elgin, where the family was headed. (more…)