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>> while i was in the air, i could feel my tank had ruptured. i started feeling the fuel dump on me. >> mike's sprint car lands right side up and immediately bursts into flames, but he's trapped in his seat soaking in gasoline as the fire quickly surrounds him. >> i started breathing in pretty heavy amounts of fire. after a while my belts melted so i couldn't get them off. so i'm just thinking i'm probably going to die in this race car. >> raceway firefighters austin kingry and shane spaulding witness the crash directly in front of them. but they must watch helplessly as the flames envelope th...

Rapidly as possible. >> as soon as they were over the water was when i suggested that they could commence their fuel dump. that was also the time, unknown to me, that the aircraft began experiencing a series of critical systems failures. >> the plane begins to lose altitude. >> within a minute, they had lost several critical systems. they lost the radio contact. and very soon after that, we lost the transponder. >> inside the cockpit, a nightmare scenario was unfolding. fire has breached the ceiling, dripping molten aluminum on to the flight deck. they lose control of the plane and plunge into...

The plane is over the canadian coast when the pilot smells smoke in the cockpit. bill pickerel is the air traffic controller that day and the last person to have contact with flight 111. >> we were at the end of the shift. at approximately 10:15 p.m. local time, we were advised by one of the others sectors in the center, a swiss air flight had declared a pan because of smoke alert in the cockpit. >> a pan is an emergency that is not immediately life threatening. swiss air 111 is cleared for an emergency landing in nova scotia. >> it appeared to be a straight-forward operation. the radio transm...

Remember running a few laps under green, then battling with another car side by side. he kept getting closer and closer to me. >> the two drivers jockey back and forth for the lead until mike suddenly realizes something the wrong. >> one lap i didn't see him. i just felt a hard impact. the next thing i knew i was in the air. >> trouble. >> while i was in the air, i could feel my tank had ruptured. i started feeling the fuel dump on me. >> mike's sprint car lands right side up and immediately bursts into flames, but he's trapped in his seat soaking in gasoline as the fire quickly surrounds him....

>> i remember the race, starting up front. i remember running a few laps on the green, then battling with another car side by side. he kept getting closer and closer to me. >> the two drivers jockey back and forth for the lead until mike suddenly realizes something is wrong. >> then a lap i didn't see him. i just felt a hard impact. the next thing i knew i was in the air. >> trouble. >> while i was in the air, i could feel my tank had ruptured. i started feeling the fuel dump on me. >> mike's sprint car lands right side up and immediately bursts into flames, but he's trapped in his seat soakin...