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Jumper hooks jeremiahs litter to the helicopters heavy metal cable. now every second is crucial. and then, suddenly, a change in the wind. >> there we are, talking about things going wrong. hang on, fellows. oh, my goodness. oh, that is horrible. good lord. oh, fellows. oh, my goodness. youre watching this live, folks. >> i absolutely couldnt believe what i was seeing. >> more than six tons of metal flip over seven and a half times, rotors going in every direction. debris and the crewmen flying ...

Sulenberger took us into an airbus simulator to help us understand the copilots blunder. do you understand why he would pull the stick all the way back, when he should have been doing exactly the opposite? >> its difficult to explain that. i just dont know why he did that. >> reporter: and theres nothing to you that makes sense on... on any experience or intellectual level about pulling back when you should push forward? >> no. >> reporter: nothing at all? >> sullenberger says, even without the ...

A horrendous impression. you have the wind against the fuselage. so that moment there was ç pandemonium. >> avianca 52 just lost two engines. >> the crew calmly tells air traffic control that the engines have failed. they are quickly routed back to jfk. but it is too late. when the boeing 707 crashes into the hillside in oyster bay, the cockpit breaks off, killing the pilot and flight engineer. they are only 16 miles from the airplane. miraculously, 85 of 158 people on board survive impact. th...

>> they fought with this thing for several minutes. the captain instructed the flight engineer to go down and see if he could manually see an alignment stripe that is on the nose geq) that you can see from a small view port down under the flight deck. >> but its just too dark to see. the captain and co-pilot are still struggling with the light bulb. >> this is where the insidious nature of human error begins to show itself. ideally someone does nothing but monitor the autopilot. but with the dif...

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Off tonight making final preparation in the former soviet republican of kazakhstan. on board is just one american, a former math and science teacher turned flight engineer, joe acava. hes set to be aboard the international space station for six months. they will be on board when the space-x mission docks becoming the first private company to do so. that launch is scheduled for saturday. meantime the space shuttle enterprise is being prepped for display here in new york city. the shuttle is now r...

The f-22 is it has never flown in combat. because it was built to fight an advanced soviet fighter that doesnt exist. >> this aspect of our national security has been an abysmal failure. >> reporter: and worse, the f-22 has a potentially fatal flaw in the oxygen system that could cause its pilots to black out. the air force admitted this week some pilots are now asking not to fly the f-22 because the problem remains unfixed. >> if i knew what the problem was, it would be gone. i just have not fo...

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The wind. >> there we are, talking about things going wrong. hang on, fellows. oh, my goodness. oh, that is horrible. good lord. oh, fellows. oh, my goodness. youre watching this live, folks. >> i absolutely couldnt believe what i was seeing. >> more than six tons of metal flip over seven and a half times, rotors going in every direction. debris and the crewmen flying everywhere. jeremiah, who thought he was safe seconds earlier, nowhere to be found. >> i thought he was still attached to that bi...

The cable and essentially blew it off so i was no longer attached to the helicopter. the six crew members in the helicopter came to help jeremiah, but now theyre the ones who need help. look at the replay of the videotape. theyre ejected, and the hulking helicopter rolls over some of them twice on the way down. but the mountain has another miracle in store on this day. amazingly, only two of the six crew members suffer broken bones. the most seriously hurt, the flight engineer who had cut the ca...