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[screaming] bill: just the sound and the smoke and the reaction. that was at an airshow crash that killed 11 people at a show last year. debbie hersman. chair come woman of the national transportation safety board. nice to see you here in new york. you company out with several recommendations to prevent this from happening again. you learned a lot more about this case. the pilot was elderly, he was 72 years old. you should he have been flying that plane that day? >> our investigators identified that the g-forces or pressure this pilot was facing when this upset occurred something neither you o...

Happen to a human actually in orbit. there was some concern that the forces of gravity and g-forces would possibly explode his eyes. that never materialized. and john glenn was able to successfully orbit the earth three times on a flight that lasts almost five hours. he splashed down safely east of florida in the bahamas. >> i was just anxious to go. i went on the 11th scheduled date. i suited up four times. once the flight was canceled because of weather when i was in the transfer van on the way to the launch pad. i was up twice before. almost hard to believe when i went to the final 18 secon...

He would be dead in seconds if his pressure suit failed. joe witte inker the guy did this for the air force in 1960 held the record. he is advising baumgartner how to do it safely. they have safety at the top of the priority list. that is good. john clark, the flight surgeon involved was one of my shuttle flight surgeons. they are getting good expertise. i think it will come off successfully this summer. >> i read something that at these heights your blood could literally boil. give us a sense what happens inside the human body at these heights and these temperatures? >> morbidly fascinating. ...

Convinced me to come out for that media preview and i am going to get back at him for that. i'm not sure if that rates up there with the cyclone out there in new york city, but nonetheless, not a bad day to take in -- >> did that rip your watch off your arm? >> yeah. i mean i had to grab it and hold on to it for dear life. you try to hold your hands up but when you come down from that after a 95-degree pitch going inverted and you hit the bottom of that, you got some g forces and i wasn't quite strong enough to keep my hands up. i slammed down. >> we love roller coasters. i don't know what you...

That one day. there are ways you can get around that. if you just buy a ticket one day, they can tell you, come on back. we'll change this and become a season pass ticketholder. >> you think this is going to be a big summer blockbuster, amusement parks? >> great ones out there. >> what's your favorite? >> my favorite is actually in san dusky, ohio, cedar point. you did mention california screaming, which is -- >> oh, my gosh. that is the best. >> that's big for disneyland as well. >> you take off. the g forces, it's like two seconds, and then you are up in a big loop. it's so fun. anyway, good...