CNN CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta February 19, 2022 20:47:00
Fly off and hit something or someone, or is it something about the design or landing angle the pilot might be going for in this case to prevent something like that? >> well, and so many factors -- here obviously they still had the blades functional, and the way that they hit the water, yes, had they been at an angle, the water could have easily taken off a blade or caused the aircraft itself to come apart. but it does appear that they were able to get it down without the blades coming off. now, you know, blades come off for a lot of reasons, but you can see in the video they were still intact....
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