Though the exact meanings are lost to us for all the different flowers and colors, we still use the rose to get our emotions across to the recipient. âThe single rose is, in essence, a symbol of completion, of consummate achievement and perfectionâ, says J. E. Cirlot in his âA Dictionary of Symbolsâ.
The plane didnât make an emergency landing or detour â it continued on to its destination of Denver, Colorado, where passengers got another shock: they found the lightning strike punched a hole through the nose of the plane.
The lightning strike passes through the body of the person to the ground and misses the major organs of the body (mainly the brain and the heart). This increases their chance of survival by incredible amounts. In a car you are fairly safe as the metal body of the car is a better conductor of electricity than you.