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>> when you have the landing gear up and no runway in front aircraft on the ground, with all of the thrust, is gone. >> with no thrust from his only engine, hut has only one option. >> when that bird went in the engine, i knew i had to eject and i was just not looking forward to doing it. the ejection system is designed to get your body away from the crash site. you're not expected to get out of the situation unscathed. it's a very violent thing. i know pretty well every situation where two people have ejected out of the same plane. at least one of them is hurt, if not fatally. >> hutt takes a...

Acceleration as it takes you up the rail. the ejection force itself, i really remembered it very strong pain in my back and when the chute opened up again, it was just a reconfirmed the pain in my back. i hit the ground pretty hard and i did further damage to myself. i broke my femur. the femur damaged on contact. >> having bitter luck, the british pilot escapes with only minor injuries and captain hut cheats death by only the slimmest margin. >> i was probably doing 33 feet per second when i hit the ground and all the data out there says that anything more than about 35 feet per second is pro...

Returns to the air in one fell swoop. one that can change their lives if a landing can needs to be aborted for any reason. captain hut supervises a touch and go formed by a british pilot during training. >> he was a fully winged pilot. he was getting familiarization. >> hut takes over. >> i said, okay, he's been flying for a year and a half. i can had at least a minute on the stick so that's when i did the touch and go. >> but then both pilots are rocked by what happens next. a single bird gets sucked into the jet's engine. >> when you have the landing gear up and no runway in front of you, al...

To get your body away from the crash site. you're not expected to get out of the situation unscathed. it's a very violent thing. i know pretty well every situation where two people have injected out of the same plane. at least one of them is hurt, if not fatally. >> hut takes advantage of the speed he has to tilt nose up and gain altitude. that could increase their chances for survival. with more altitude, their parachutes will have more time to deploy. hut has one other thing going for him. >> the fuel state was low so the aircraft was light. i had that advantage. >> with altitude gained, hut...

Stall. >> a stalled plane has no lift and falls out of the control. to prevent that, hut drops his right wing, trading altitude for air speed. the jet computer warns that their jet is not geared for landing. with the ground approaching rapidly, hut must level the aircraft before ejection. >> what is paramount is to be wings level. it really helps your chances of survival. when you put any bank on the airplane, it lessens, especially in a low level environment. all i was making sure is that we were wing level before we ejected. >> the pilots try to restart one last time. >> going to try to get ...