IHT Readers' Close Encounter With the News Last week Rendezvous called on readers of the International Herald Tribune to share their favorite memories or photos about the paper to help us celebrate our 125th anniversary on Oct. 4. We've had some great responses so far, and we hope that many of you are still searching for the ideal backdrop for your own IHT portrait to rival the George Clooney photo we posted. We were fairly certain that the post would generate a lot of happy memories of exotic travel and great food. But one response brought us down to earth and made us realize that at times our readers have come dangerously close to the worst kind of news: One couple described a harrowing experience in 1996 during which they arrived in Lahore, Pakistan hours after a terrorist attack, only to get on another plane that was nearly brought down by a violent storm. In the end, they had to return to Lahore. They sent us a clip of the story they read in the IHT, at right. Here's an excerpt from the e-mail they sent in: The closest my wife and I have ever come to appearing in the IHT was in 1996, following a terrorist event in the airport of Lahore, Pakistan. We landed at Lahore airport within hours after the bomb blast which, according to your article, killed six people and injured scores of others. Mildly put, it was a very shocking experience, exacerbated by what we experienced in our onward flight to Islamabad, where our plane flew into an extreme tropical storm, from which we expected not to escape alive. As it happened, our flight returned to Lahore - of all places - where we stayed overnight at a local hotel named "Avari," more or less equivalent in French to the English word "crash." As one of our fellow "survivors" on the aborted flight to Islamabad put it: "I almost died twice today!" Thank you for giving us the possibility of recalling those traumatic experiences from more than 15 years ago. Have you had a brush with disaster or a close encounter with a major news event that was featured in the IHT? Share it via Twitter using the #iht125 hashtag or write about it in the comments here on Rendezvous.