A
Chicago man took unusual marriage proposals to new heights when he faked an
impending plane crash before asking his girlfriend to marry him.
Commercial
pilot Ryan Thompson took his girlfriend Carlie Kennedy for a ride in a small
aircraft to view the Chicago skyline. What Kennedy didn't know was that
Thompson had concocted an elaborate and terrifying prank as prelude to his
marriage proposal.
Midway
through their flight, Thompson told Kennedy that the plane was experiencing a
serious malfunction and asked her to read the emergency instruction manual.
"At
that moment, I genuinely thought something was wrong with the plane, and that
we were going to crash," Kennedy, 28, told the Chicago
Sun-Times.
As the plane
appears to be descending out of control, Kennedy reads the phony emergency
instructions, which instruct the passengers to begin the, "Ring Engagement
Procedure."
Kennedy
still thinks she's reading a genuine emergency response plan and continues
reading the next step of instructions, which say," "Determine if he
is a good mate," and "Note: He will always love and honor you."
"I
genuinely did believe that we were going to die," Kennedy told ABC News.
"I felt like our lives depended on me making it through that
checklist."
Thompson
told the paper that they were never in danger and said he was amused by
Kennedy's fearful response. "It was just maybe the equivalent of
hitting a light pocket of turbulence," he said. "It just got a little
worry out of Carlie. It was pretty funny."
After the
couple landed safely back on the ground, Thompson then revealed that he filmed
the entire incident with an in-flight, hidden camera. He has since uploaded the
video to YouTube, which he entitled, "In Descent Proposal." and it
has become a viral hit, generating more than two million views in less than a
week.
Amazingly,
Kennedy not only accepted the proposal from Thompson, 31, but said she wasn't
even upset with him over the prank. "I was never angry, not even for a
second," she told the Sun-Times.
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