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 a 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.” 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.
