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Scott Christmas

Scott Christmas

Medtronic medical device sales rep and endurance athlete from Fairhope, Alabama, who survived a fatal 1996 plane crash and rebuilt his life through triathlon, later racing toward the IRONMAN World Championship in Kona to honor his late friend Captain Owen Duke.

Sep 20, 2026

8:37
anyone survived that.
8:39
Yeah, so it's pretty much, you know, there's a lot of things that happened that day, you know, for me to survive.
8:44
But more than anything, you know, we hit, we impacted, you know, my body basically folded in two.
8:49
You know, that's the reason in America we got rid of lap belts because, you know, you'd break your back, rupture your spleen.
8:56
Those were two of the most common injuries for that.
8:58
And I did both.
8:59
My foot folded in two with a Liz Frank injury.

13 MINS LATER

21:58
Everybody's got one.

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