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Grateful that i'm here, have another opportunity and i hugged my kids and my wife. >> if the crew hadn't recovered flight 006 from the nosedive they would have collided with the ocean in 30 seconds. >> the captain, he's fortunate that he had 30 plus thousand feet to recover this high-speed dive because had this happened at 20,000 feet, he may not have had enough altitude before the aircraft struck to effect the full recovery. >> the ntsb investigation determines that the captain's decision making abilities could have been impaired by boredom and fatigue. >> jet lag pilots go through time zones...

>> right after i call god, the sound disappear and the pressure drop down. >> finally after falling more than 30,000 feet in less than two and a half minutes, the nose begins to pitch up and the airplane levels out at 9,500 feet. >> the captain used very artful flying to recover the aircraft from the bad situation. unfortunately, it was that same pilot who put the airplane in that bad situation. >> flight 006 is no long near a nosedive but they are not out of danger. the crew realizes with drag from the landing gear, they won't have enough fuel to make it to los angeles. instead, they will try...