Before Don't Die, @​bryan johnson almost died flying his own plane: "I was flying my prop plane down to SXSW." "I made a rule that I would never fly alone. Amateur pilots are something like seven times more likely to get into an accident." "In aviation, you can look at the TAF, which tells the expected weather forecast. We were coming back and we were landing somewhere around noon. My co-pilot mistakenly looked at the TAF between 2 and 4." "We're like 100 miles out, and we start getting some weather reports that there's an actual tornado sweeping through the Midwest." "We're now going to our airport and the winds are 35 knots, gusting 45." "So we try to make our landing and there's too much lift. We can't put the plane down." "So now we have 17 minutes of fuel left. We call air traffic control to find us an airport close by." "We find one that has a fire truck. We're going to go down. We're going to flip. We're probably going to start on fire, so we need someone to come out." "So we come in and cross the threshold. We're fighting for our lives. We're both ghost white. We think we're gonna die." "Somehow, the winds die down. We have a soft landing. Instead of going home that night, we said, 'Let's just get a hotel.'" ▻