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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 instruments. all we have is the lights right now. >> i would have been right up close like this with my eyeball maybe three, four inches from the window on the left side. at this point you know you got something serious when you got a thing like a christmas tree. i didn't t...

So, i threw the mask off, opened 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 was 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...

>> but moments after the exit doors are opened, the plane explodes into flames. >> when this additional oxygen entered the cabin with the fire burning, it ignited that smoke. >> there were flames leaping out of the door and into the air, probably six to ten feet in the air. >> it looked like an inferno. there were flames leaping out the doors. there was smoke all around it. >> and that's when we knew that we needed to get off the wing because i knew that fuel was in those wing tanks. so, i knew that we needed to get off. >> as the passengers evacuate, captain cameron stays in the cockpit, rely...

It's getting worse, sir. >> you could definitely feel when we started to descend because it was a real 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 crew is completely relying on air traffic control to guide him down to the airport. >> roger, you are 14 miles southeast of the airport. continue your left turn. >> taking you to the field. >> he would tell me to turn right until he told me to stop. >> he was faced with not being able to see his air speed, to not be able to see what few instrum...

Electricity jumping from one of these wires would release an enormous amount of energy and could ignite a fire. investigat 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, consuming vital electric systems, making it almost impossle 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,ç very tired by the time he got on th...