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It would hit the ocean at a violent rate. >> that's the problem. you have a good decent, but you can see how either one of the engine cowlings or a wing could snap, and then tumbles. but if it's not a wild, high dive from high altitude, it's more like a roll into the ocean. >> think back to the hudson river landing. very controlled decent, and he landed the airplane intact. it can be done. >> assuming, of course, there's someone flying. if not, it's still going to crash in a way it's a going to end up with some debris, but maybe not a huge debris field, brooke. >> that's the thing. we talk abo...

So terrifying for the passengers. what are you hearing? >> terrifying at one level because of the noise, but at the same time, quite normal in the sense that the plane didn't jolt, or didn't dive or anything like that. modern aircraft are designed to fly on one engine. from what i hear, of course, is this -- by the time the pilot had stabilized the aircraft, brought it round, to come back in to land, passengers probably wouldn't have noticed that much difference. except they will have seen the smoke out of the right, and they'll have known the engine on the left. we don't know whether this was...