nothing like when you run into a telephone pole backing up out of a parking place. but then we did 360-degree rolls in less than a second and a half. so that got my attention. >> hep and the pilot are the only two people in the plane as they spin wildly around and around, their plane becomes engulfed in flames. hep doesn't know the plane is on fire and critically damaged. >> i thought, oh, we lost control because he it tried to evade the weapon. i didn't realize we lost the wing. i just thought we recover the airplane, thought we just lost control of it a little bit. i thought, okay, we're good. we're going to fly it and land. >> as they continue their fiery spiral towards earth, his vision gets blurry. >> i could not see anything. all i could see was black and gray. i didn't realize at the time that our canopy had glazed over.