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remarkably calm, even managing to provide some comic relief, suggesting passengers light their cigarettes and relax. i mean, here he is, he s in a situation where he s going to have to ditch the plane, and yet he s able to joke like that. he seems to me to be very calm and have his sensibilities about him, which if you have to have a pilot who s going to ditch a plane you d want a pilot who has his senses about him. the plane remains aloft for nearly five hours, operating on two of its four engines. by morning, conditions are more conducive to ditching. the water is calm. it s a warm 74 degrees. a coast guard camera records the scene from below as flight attendants prepare the passengers above, telling them to remove their shoes, tighten their seat belts, put out their cigarettes, and put on their life vests. the pilot has the crew move all passengers to seats in the front of the cabin. he was probably worried that the tail would break off.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140324:04:39:00

and if that was the case, then he wanted to make sure we were all safe in the front of the plane. there s a ten-minute warning. a one-minute warning. and then three simple words from the pilot. this is it. the plane splashes down at a speed of 103 miles per hour. the impact is brutal. the plane whips around, its tail snapping off, just as the captain had predicted. but neither the film nor the graphic animation can fully express what the people who were on that plane experienced at that moment. when it hit the water, it jarred me apart from my mother, and i slid from under her legs and just slid under the chair. so that was very scary for my mother. i think that was the one time where she did let out a sound, where she did probably scream, where s my child?

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140324:04:50:00

60-mile-an-hour, worst thing you ve ever felt kind of thing. and then getting progressively worse. the plane was like tumbling or something. i said, all right, that s it. i m dead. of 175 passengers and crew, 125 perish, including all three hijackers. some victims are standing at the time of impact and are violently thrown to their deaths. many die because they disregard safety instructions and inflate their life jackets while still inside the plane. as the cabin fills with water, they re pushed up against the ceiling and drown. as tragic an outcome as it is, it could have been even worse. the fact that some people survived, is it good heroic piloting or were there mistakes made? were there mistakes? you can monday morning quarterback this and say they could have done this and that better. but under the conditions they faced, i d say this crew did pretty well. when we come back, how do young pilots prepare for young

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150810:01:03:00

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150810:01:54:15

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