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This means a 200-pound person would feel like 1,000 pounds. >> you didn't know if your brain was going to explode or what. everybody's face was pulled back, stretched. >> you couldn't move your mouth, your arms, anything. it was complete silence because you couldn't even make a sound. >> when they were trying to figure out what was going on, the crew found themselves with their faces pressed down on to the control column because the g-forces were so strong. >> reporter: the forces of the air and g load are so powerful the doors covering parts of the mainlanding gear are ripped off. >> big boom...

Imagination of all of those young people out there. >> and my friend coral was texting me and thinking that i went up in one of those planes. did you get scared and was your stomach and neck anything like that? the g- forces. and i did not puke. it was amazing that you didn't yak. >> my heart races about you getting in the plane. i am glad you are back. >> i had a parachute on. >> that does not make me feel better. >> what is your message to get out to the military service members past and present. navy moves, thank you god. some gave all and all gave something. treat me at julie band band. mo...

Isn't a great deal they can do about it at that stage except for put on igniters on the engines to prevent the engines from icing up. but, you know inside -- when you enter one of these thunderstorms, the aircraft is being shaken about very violently with a great deal of noise and that can be from hail or just wind noise. there are g-forces acting on the aircraft. all that is very disorienting and the main thing the pilots will try and focus on is flying the aircraft keeping it level and keeping its speed within certain parameters. so it all happens very suddenly very quickly and, you know it ...

>> the turbulence can be so remarkable and so severe that the passengers may not have had the opportunity or the physical capability to retrieve their life vests. the g-forces can be significant. and ergverything not nailed down will fly about the cockpit and hit the ceiling of the cockpit. >> i want to ask you this too. air traffic controller data shows that the plane slowed down to 460 miles per hour considerably below what is needed to sustain flight in extreme weather and the speculation of the slow speed may have caused something you're familiar with aerodynamic stall. how does that come ...

This thing was six years old. it was considered young. they can take an enorls amount -- they're built very robustly. they're very solid. and if you look at the number of flights that take place every single day around the world compared to the number of accidents that happen safer. very much safer i would say. >> did you say you don't want to build a plane that's too -- did you say too strong? meaning too heavy? >> you don't want to overengineer a plane. for example, if you want a structure to be 150% to be able to carry a load 150% more than it's ever expected to actually have to carry, you ...