Sonya Ross: I was nervous. I was thinking—it seems really morbid—but I was thinking, What if they come after the president? We all turn into “and 12 others.” No one knows your name if you go down with the president. But Eric Washington, he was the CBS sound guy, he had his seat reclined, his feet up. He said, “What are you worried about? You’re on the safest plane in the world.”

