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Perfect alaskan night. >> 40 miles away, the midnight sun shines on a stadium where a baseball game between the fairbanks gold panners and the anchorage bucks is under way. in addition to baseball tonight, the stadium complex is housing soccer and track and field events and its filled with fans. >> theres a lot of events going on. theres a lot of people outside that day. >> back in the plane, ron and mark cross the cook inlet and enter anchorage air space. >> the suns hitting on anchorage. all t...

Injured but safe from the flaming wreckage, rons thoughts turn to his brother, mark. >> i thought he was dead. it was really scary to think you may have just lost your brother. >> moments later, andrew cowan and others pull mark from the plane. >> we tried to move them a safe distance away so that the paramedics could assess them and then assess the situation. >> mark has numerous broken bones. but hes alive. >> were still here, you know. were not dead. how can that be? pretty deep moment for me...

Feet. mark and ron know the pilot is going to crash the plane. the question is where. >> he was scrambling to find a place to land that. he didnt try and start the motor anymore. it was done. it was over. were going to land this baby. >> you see the baseball field and we were headed straight for it. >> on the ball field, the hometown bucks are taking a beating, down 7-zip in the top of the third. bucks pitcher andrew cowan is in the radio booth when he notices something strange. >> there was a p...

At 7:45 p.m., the siblings along with another passenger and the pilot take off. >> the suns still up. its still july so its land of the midnight sun. perfect alaskan night. >> 40 miles away, the midnight sun shines on a stadium where a baseball game between the fairbanks gold panners and the anchorage bucks is under way. in addition to baseball tonight, the stadium complex is housing soccer and track and field events and its filled with fans. >> theres a lot of events going on. theres a lot of p...

New lease on life. >> it made us both realize that time is more important than anything. time and your family, time goes fast. i want to use it the best i can. >> mark and ron spend that time together. since the crash, theyre closer than ever. >> its definitely made us tighter. i still dont like him a lot but i like him more than i did. hes a good dude. >> coming up, a comedian gets a whole new definition of the word punch line. >> i just remember someone coming in. we know a place where tossing...

Flaming wreckage, rons thoughts turn to his brother, mark. >> i thought he was dead. it was really scary to think you may have just lost your brother. >> moments later, andrew cowan and others pull mark from the plane. >> we tried to move them a safe distance away so that the paramedics could assess them and then assess the situation. >> mark has numerous broken bones, but hes alive. >> were still here, you know. were not dead. how can that be? pretty deep moment for me, it was. it was the reali...

Anything. time and your family, time goes fast. i want to use it the best i can. >> mark and ron spend that time together. since the crash, theyre closer than ever. >> its definitely made us tighter. i still dont like him a lot but i like him more than i did. hes a good dude. >> coming up, a comedian gets a whole new definition of the word punch line. >> i just remember someone coming in. [ woman ] ring. ring.

Pilot take off. >> the suns still up. its still july so its land of the midnight sun. perfect alaskan night. >> 40 miles away, the midnight sun shines on a stadium where a baseball game between the fairbanks gold panners and the anchorage bucks is under way. in addition to baseball tonight, the stadium complex is housing soccer and track and field events, and its filled with fans. >> theres a lot of events going on. theres a lot of people outside that day. >> back in the plane, ron and mark cros...

>> fans and players watch in horror as the plane heads directly for the field. >> and the total feeling of helplessness, im in no control here, ive got nothing to say, were screwed. >> right before the impact, the planes left wing clips a chain link fence. the engine tears off and the plane cartwheels across the running track. >> the second we hit, it was hard. it was instant. my right foot just snapped, it was noisy, it was brutal. >> the plane catches fire. fans and players, including andrew c...

>> i thought he was dead. it was really scary to think you may have just lost your brother. >> moments later, andrew cowan and others pull mark from the plane. >> we tried to move them a safe distance away so that the paramedics could assess them and then assess the situation. >> mark has numerous broken bones. but hes alive. >> were still here, you know. were not dead. how can that be? pretty deep moment for me, it was. it was the realization that we made it through that, busted up and all. >> ...