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

Anything that might go wrong. and stuff can go wrong. the risk is that we'll be able to land but not take off again, so this guy is our return ticket out of the jungle. ♪ >> our captain is joaquin san clemente, something of a legend in these parts, and his co-pilot captain constanza reyes. >> it's mystical. you know, and they develop this sensibility with the plane. there's no intel in sight 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. >> t...

Safely onto the water. >> okay. you have to hold it. hold it, hold it. okay, zulu. you are going to make it. you are going to make it. >> the 767 is traveling at about 200 miles an hour. far too fast to ditch safely. but there's 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'll actually see it come off. he's fighting to control the airplane. the engine hits. it's shedding parts and then he finally -- it actually pre...

The midnight sun. perfect alaskan night. >> 40 miles away, the midnight sun shines on a stadium where a baseball game between the fairbanks gold panners and the anchorage bucks is under way. in addition to baseball tonight, the stadium complex is housing soccer and track and field events and it's filled with fans. >> there's a lot of events going on. there's a lot of people outside that day. >> back in the plane, ron and mark cross the cook inlet and enter anchorage air space. >> the sun's hitting on anchorage. all the buildings have the reflections. probably the prettiest night we have ever s...

The train, stops holding it down like that, that handle springs back up right and that brings the train to a stop. it's called a dead man's switch. if there's nobody there to hold that handle down, that stops the train when the handle springs back. it's literally designed to detect if the guy driving this thing has turned into a dead man. they call it a dead man switch. devices like this have existed for a long time on trains and subways. some airplanes have something similar where it lowers the altitude of the airplane automatically in the event the cockpit becomes unresponsive. in none of th...