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David Arrigo looks at cameos of potted history with deeply-rooted Malta connections through the extraordinary lives of the Malta-born Bell brothers. When Malta became a Crown colony in 1814, early British colonialists left their mark by founding businesses, some of which are still operating today. Charlotte Bell née Williams, Captain John Bell's second wife. John Bell, captain of the brigantine called The Sisters, was firstly married to Suzanna Williams in 1812, then to her sister, Charlotte, in 1925. Their daughter, Susan Mary, was born in Bristol and, after coming to Malta, John Thomas and...

Dramatic, quick decline. i definitely questioned whether or not we would make it safely to the ground. that's when my fear was probably peaked. >> the captain is now completely relying on air traffic control to guide him down to the airport. >> roger. you're 14 miles east of the airport. continue your left turn. >> he would tell me to turn right until he tells me to stop. >> he was faced with not being able to see his air speed. with not being able to see what few instruments he had. it was a very difficult situation to fly. >> where's the airport? >> 12:00 and eight miles. >> we came in, the ...

These wires would release an enormous amount of energy and could ignite a fire. investigators do, in fact, find evidence of arcing on the left and right lavatory feeder wires, that come out through holes in the floorboards. the arc starts a fire that ignites the lavatory walls, the fire then spreads consuming vital electric systems, making it almost impossible for captain cameron to control the aircraft. >> became suddenly very hard to fly. it was nose heavy because the stabilizer trim had failed. >> his arms would have been very, very, very tired by the time he got on the ground. he had expen...

Your throat burning from the sensation of breathing in. i suggested that we put our heads lower. in firefighting school we learned that the lower you got, the more that you could be below the smoke. >> with low visibility and few remaining control or navigation systems, captain cameron is flying almost blind. >> we have no heading. we have no instruments. all we have is laser right now. >> i would have been up close like this with my eyeball maybe three, four inches away from the window on the left side. at this point you know you got something serious. when you got the thing lit like a christ...

A window and saw somebody on the wing. i thought, good, the evacuation is going well. then i tried to get out myself and i couldn't move. >> captain cameron loses consciousness. firefighters have to spray him with foam to revive him. >> it was ice cold and it tasted like soap. next thing i remembered, i was hanging from the window sill with my right hand and let myself go and i fell down. >> but for some passengers it's too late. >> 46 people on the plane. half of them were killed. of those who survived, only five were not injured. >> we came out on that side of the plane. >> we started talkin...