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A Bessemer doctor and his daughter are back to doing charitable work in Haiti after their plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near the Bahamas.
Dr. Richard Mcglaughlin and his daughter, Elaine, took off Saturday on a mission trip to Haiti.
Ever since his first trip to Haiti with the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama, Dave Drachlis says Mcglaughlin has been hooked. "He's an energetic, very caring person with a lot of interests," said Drachlis.
The two men traveled to Haiti back in May of 2010 to help earthquake victims. Since that trip, Mcglaughlin has made it his mission to continue the visits.
So much in fact, he setup his own lab at the St. Damians Hospital in Haiti.
Drachlis says, "he's been going once a month since then for a week on his own down there to help out." You might think twice about hopping back on a plane after what happened to Dr. Mcglaughlin.
His plane with his daughter on board, went down Saturday in the Bahamas, crashing into the ocean. On his way back onto a commercial flight in Miami Monday morning, Mcglaughlin says, "It leaves you a little shaky for a while and not entirely sure what to do next."
His daughter, by his side, is still processing Saturday's crash. "I have just been going over the events of Saturday and it just seems really surreal," said Elaine.
http://www.myfoxal.com/story/16482862/local-doctor-survives-plane-crash-and-continues-mission
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