Emergency Landing

A few years ago, I flew on a small private jet to a town in Utah with 2 of my cousins, my Grandparents, and 2 of my aunts. We were there to see the Boise State football team play Utah State, and needless to say we were very happy when Boise State walloped Utah State. The first half of the short 1-hour flight back home went by without incident. I was sitting in the closest passenger seat to the pilots where I could see the flight instruments. All of the sudden, I noticed one of the gauges that was showing oil pressure was moving. It kept moving until it showed that the left engine of the plane had completely lost oil pressure. All sorts of awful things were going through my head with my limited knowledge of what this situation meant for us, and it didn't help that the pilots hadn't noticed the gauge. Finally it started beeping and they noticed it. They pulled out their pilot guidebook to figure out what to do. Then they leaned back and told the seven of us that we had completely lost oil pressure in the left engine, and that they would have to turn it off and make an emergency landing. It was the eeriest sound I've ever heard when they turned off the engine. It basically sounded like they were shutting off the entire airplane in midair. We were close to Twin Falls, Idaho which has a small airport, so we made a rapid descent and landed about 8 minutes later. We were greeted by a firetruck when we hit the runway and were given a free rental car to make the 2 hour drive back to Boise. The left engine was covered in oil, and it turns out one of the oil supply lines had exploded. Whew! Close call.