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Hijackers flight the pilot for control of the plane. >> i said this is all finished now. we are all dead people. let me do it my way. i don't know how they did it. >> they disengaged the autopilot. >> disengaged it? >> yeah. they did. and then i had to start flying it myself. >> in the cabin, passengers start to panic. >> when the pilot first made the announcement that the plane was out of fuel in one engine and running out in the other, the plane just broke into pandemonium, and then we heard passengers in the back that panicked, and they all inflated their life jackets. they all put them on ...

That captain was under a different kind of stress than we've seen with the others. >> absolutely. he not only had the issues of putting the plane down in the water, he had people onboard that were trying to kill people on the airplane, including himself. >> it's november 23rd, 1996. ethiopian airlines flight 961 from the ethiopian capital to africa. it turns out to be anything but a normal flight. the pilot sat with a filmmaker whose father was killed in the crash. in the cockpit of a boeing 767 simulator, the captain relives the hellish flight. >> they came into the cockpit. >> how many? >> t...

Captain tries as hard as he can to put the plane he nicknamed zulu down safely into the water. >> okay. you have to hold it. hold it. okay zulu, i know you will make it. >> it's traveling about 200 miles per hour, far too fast to ditch safely. but there is an even more serious problem. as this incredible video shows, the wings are not level. a dangerous angle for ditching. watch as the left wing drags along the water with disastrous results. >> they catch the left wing first. you will see it come off. he is fighting to control the airplane. and the engine hits, and it's shedding parts. and the...

Go out. i said, guys, hold on, what's going on? shut up. the flight is hijacked. >> okay. >> claiming to have a bomb, the hijackers demand to be flown to australia. >> this flight is destined to nairobi. we don't carry enough fuel to australia. let's land in nairobi, refuel and then we'll go to australia. >> the hijackers refused to allow the captain to refuel at cities along his route. they want him to fly out over the water towards australia. and the pilot knows that's a losing proposition. so he hugs the coast. >> they said why are you flying over the coast? australia is somewhere in this d...

Our captain is joaquin sanclemente, something of a legend in these parts. and his copilot, captain constanza. >> pablo: it's mystical. you know, and they -- they develop this sensibility with the plane. there's no intel inside here. there's no software. they have gps, but that's about it. it's beautiful. you know, they have to sense everything. they know when the sound of the plane is not right. it's just man and machine. >> anthony: the weather is the big unknown around here. it's changeable enough to ground planes in remote places if they hang around for too long.