I was speaking with Dan about kids and families and we were marveling at the fact that there are so many animal species whose young are forced to walk and run within hours of being born. It’s a survival thing of course. If they couldn’t walk soon after birth, they would become another animal’s tasty num-nums.

"If he hauled the wheel to port at this speed, he would ground-loop. Probably wouldn't explode, considering how little fuel was left in the tanks, but it was possible. Or the Beech might simply twist apart, leaving Richard Dees from the gut on down twitching in his seat, while Richard Dees from the gut on up went in a different direction, trailing severed intestines like party-favors and dropping kidneys on the concrete like a couple of oversized chunks of birdsh!t."

Stephen King - The Night Flier - One of the short stories in Nightmares and Dreamscapes - Pinguin Books 1993