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Your throat burning from the sensation of breathing in. i suggested that we put our heads lower. in firefighting school, we learned that the lower you got, the more that you could be below the smoke. >> with low visibility and few remaining control or navigation systems, captain cameron is flying almost blind. >> we have no instruments. all we have is the lights right now. >> i would have been right up close like this with my eyeball maybe three, four inches from the window on the left side. at ...

So, i threw the mask off, opened a window and saw somebody on the wing. i thought, good, the evacuation is going well. then i tried to get out myself and i couldnt move. >> captain cameron loses consciousness. firefighters have to spray him with foam to revive him. >> it was ice cold and it tasted like soap. next thing i remembered, i was hanging from the window sill with my right hand and let myself go and i fell down. >> but for some passengers it was too late. >> 46 people on the plane. half ...

>> but moments after the exit doors are opened, the plane explodes into flames. >> when this additional oxygen entered the cabin with the fire burning, it ignited that smoke. >> there were flames leaping out of the door and into the air, probably six to ten feet in the air. >> it looked like an inferno. there were flames leaping out the doors. there was smoke all around it. >> and thats when we knew that we needed to get off the wing because i knew that fuel was in those wing tanks. so, i knew t...

Its getting worse, sir. >> you could definitely feel when we started to descend because it was a real dramatic, quick decline. i definitely questioned whether or not we would make it safely to the ground. thats when my fear was probably peaked. >> the crew is completely relying on air traffic control to guide him down to the airport. >> roger, you are 14 miles southeast of the airport. continue your left turn. >> taking you to the field. >> he would tell me to turn right until he told me to stop...

Electricity jumping from one of these wires would release an enormous amount of energy and could ignite a fire. investigat investigators do, in fact, find evidence of arcing on the left and right lavatory feeder wires, that come out through holes in the floorboards. the arc starts a fire that ignites the lavatory walls, consuming vital electric systems, making it almost impossle for captain cameron to control the aircraft. >> became suddenly very hard to fly. it was nose heavy because the stabil...

Down the aircraft. but before he can finish, the air runs out. >> i couldnt breathe. so, i threw the mask off, opened a window and saw somebody on the wing. i thought, good, the evacuation is going well. then i tried to get out myself and i couldnt move. >> captain cameron loses consciousness. firefighters have to spray him with foam to revive him. >> it was ice cold and it tasted like soap. next thing iç remembered, i wa hanging from the window sill with my right hand and let myself go and i ...

I would say 10 to 15 minutes. it was horrible. it was so thick that you couldnt see your hand in front of you. >> you could feel your lungs and your throat burning from the sensation of breathing in. i suggested that we put our heads lower. in firefighting school, we learned that the lower you got, the more that you could be below the smoke. >> with low visibility and few remaining control or navigation systems, captain cameron is flying almost blind. >> we have no instruments. all we have is th...

>> after a strenuous descent, the captain finally gets the airport into view. >> okay, we have the airport. >> four miles, i think i saw the airport in front of me. the runway was almost lined up pretty good. >> the landing is rough. the plane slams into the ground, all four tires explode from the pressure. >> although it was a very hard landing, it wasnt rocky. we came to a firm stop. >> but the passengers and crew are not out of the dinfer. coming up, as passengers try to escape the smoke, t...

A dc-9 is headed from dallas to toronto when the cabin and cockpit are filled with toxic smoke. the electrical systems shut down making it impossible to control the plane. >> the captain was faced with a difficult task. >> barely able to see through the thick smoke, the pilot tries to get the plane back on the ground but passengers are already succumbing to smoke inhalation. june 2nd, 1983, a normal takeoff and claim to cruising altitude. but about 2 1/2 hours into the jor journey, the plane exp...

Couldnt move. >> captain cameron loses consciousness. firefighters have to spray him with foam to revive him. >> it was ice cold and it tasted like soap. the next thing i remember was hanging on the window sill with my right hand add i let myself go down. >> for some passengers it was too late. >> there were 46. half were killed. of those not killed only five were not injured. >> we started talking to each other, other people let us know that people sitting thegt to them had not gotten off the p...