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Out of the boat, just in case things went wrong. >> luckily, dasher doesnt have to use it. >> it worked out great. not only did i sit upright on the boat, i could do spins, a flat spin, i could kind of pump back and forth and push the air and then kind of tuck up and roll the boat, just like you roll a kayak. >> he even sticks the tricky landing. >> when youre landing in this boat, youre in an l-seated position, and basically, youre going to take the impact with your back. so, you want to just k...

I had a good escape plan to get out of the boat, just in case things went wrong. >> luckily, dasher doesnt have to use it. >> it worked out great. not only did i sit upright on the boat, i could do spins, a flat spin, i could kind of pump back and forth and push the air and then kind of tuck up and roll the boat, just like you roll a kayak. >> he even sticks the tricky landing. >> when youre landing in this boat, youre in an l-seated position, and basically, youre going to take the impact with y...

To use it. >> it worked out great. not only did i sit upright on the boat, i could do spins, a flat spin, i could kind of pump back and forth and push the air and then kind of tuck up and roll the boat, just like you roll a kayak. >> he even sticks the tricky landing. >> when youre landing in this boat, youre in an l-seated position, and basically, youre going to take the impact with your back. so, you want to just kind of nail it and just skim and then settle it in real nice. >> from that momen...

I had a good escape plan to get out of the boat, just in case things went wrong. >> luckily, dasher doesnt have to use it. >> it worked out great. not only did i sit upright on the boat, i could do spins, a flat spin, i could kind of pump back and forth and push the air and then kind of tuck up and roll the boat, just like you roll a kayak. >> he even sticks the tricky landing. >> when youre landing in this boat, youre in an l-seated position, and basically, youre going to take the impact with y...

On it. if the tale is even still exact, what would that tell but how the plane went down? what thatted in those last moments? how controlled could it have been? >> it could have been going down in a flat spin. the tail section separated. as a matter of fact the vertical stabilizer the fin which goes in the top of the tail section, was floating in the ocean and was discovered a couple days after the crash. it was quite some time however, before they found the flight date recorder the cockpit voic...

But doesnt seem like. >> i have you done flight simulations? ever tried it? >> no we do not. we dont practice those types of simulations. its not a practical thing because you get to that point you know how to land an airplane so this is a matter of landing in the an unusual surface area. >> david you and i were talking off camera and i was needing comfort from you given the title of your book and the fact we all fly. there was some notion did this plane just fall out of the sky? and they dont j...

Necessarily the case. >> so the bodies that were found in the water were intact right? >> yes. >> and there was some debris fleeting on top of the water but not very much. >> right. >> supposedly they see this large shadow underneath the water. if the plane did go into this steep climb and went into a stall, how would it have hit the water? >> the two dont really make theyre not interdependent. if it did stall theres 50 different kinds of stalls but if it was a deep stall, which is the power is ...

Aircraft once it was in the water. >> maybe a ditching attempt. >> the other clue is the distance from where it had the last point of contact. at first they told us it was six miles. judged by that it would be a flat spin. it would be a spiral straight down uncontrollably now we find out its 100 miles, 120 miles from where it was spotted. if you take 17-1 glide ratio which that aircraft has without engine power, it would put it exactly there and now you put those together with no assumptions, we...

In-flight break-up or not a significant one at least. because of the location of the deceased and the location of the where the debris is. its all centrally located. >> when you look at the map and we layer on weather. you look at the flight path and you look at the weather, this tells a story. there were at least three monster thunderstorms. some you know whether experts telling us it would have been difficult to get around it all the way. you see the flight path and the huge red thunderstorms....

Out of the boat, just in case things went wrong. >> luckily, dasher doesnt have to use it. >> it worked out great. not only did i sit upright on the boat, i could do spins, a flat spin, i could kind of pump back and forth and push the air and then kind of tuck up and roll the boat, just like you roll a kayak. >> he even sticks the tricky landing. >> when youre landing in this boat, youre in an l-seated position, and basically, youre going to take the impact with your back. so, you want to just k...