view to watch the race, so dave decides to bring his camera up. we were on top of the tower on the roof and i was just shooting just footage of, like, everything that was around, and then i noticed that there was a bunch of these old warplanes that were taxiing over here on the runway and they were about to take off. sometimes we ll do air shows in between races or during the main race. in this case it was like the event that kind of kicked the race off. i was getting the plane as it was coming in to land, it didn t really seem out of ordinary to me. but the plane is in trouble. its engine stalls. and the pilot struggles to make the runway. at first, it looks to darby like the plane is going to make it. then as it was coming in, it just seemed like all of a sudden, it just dropped. it just hit the water. [ bleep ] dude. crashed and flipped forward. and it was just shocking, to say the least. immediately, boaters in the vicinity of the crash spring into action.
so far we ve seen planes crash into water and on land. you would think once a plane makes it to the runway, it would be safe. think again. at new york s jfk international airport, a large transcontinental airplane clips the tail of a smaller regional jet spinning it with jawing force. april 11th, 2011, a small delta comair bombardier arriving from boston lands at jfk. and passengers on board get a frightening reminder of one of the reason yes they should not take their seat belts off before they reach the gate. 563. send the trucks. just hit a a massive airfrance airbus a380. turning it about 45 degrees. emergency equipment. once ground control receives
apparently, ditching in the water is intentional. from what i heard, the passenger in the back actually pushed the stick forward to push the plane down into the water because he knew that they weren t going to make it, they would probably hit the seawall if they didn t do that. the concrete seawall separates the runway from the bay. slamming into it, would likely be more disastrous than forcing the plane into the water. after the crash, the height of the seawall makes it difficult for the salvage crew to recover the sunken plane. you ve got a fairly high seawall, so in order to get to retrieve the plane you have to first bring it up and close enough to shore and then you have to get the crane over to lift the plane out of the water. there is no physical evidence left to show that the crash ever happened. but for david darby, there is one lasting side effect. i don t know if i ll be flying into any little planes anytime soon. i just got it on film, bro. you got that. yea
developed a problem from the time that they were on the ground was a matter of five or six seconds. she was standing on the top wing when they crashed into the brush she was inside the front cockpit. they leveled out so that amanda could get back inside the cockpit. he had to get amanda back in the airplane before he actually could adjust his direction, otherwise she might have fallen off the wing. and then as he tried to make his way back into the open area, he didn t have enough altitude so he went down in the brush just across that across the runway. after the wreckage is cleared, the crash site provides clues as to what split-second decisions kyle made in an attempt to save and amanda s lives. this is where the plane went down. and after looking at the site, it appears to me that he was trying to turn back towards the runway because there s a tree up
all kinds of boats started speeding in to the plane, probably about ten of them. i think that some the boats that responded to the site were the police department because they had a boat already in the water for the race and i believe some coast guard as well. holy crap. the pilot and the passenger are under water. did he get out of plane? they re out. but both managed to swim out of cockpit and onto a pair of rave-runners that arrive on the scene. the faa will probably want this footage. once i saw that the pilots actually got out, and then it was sort of like a relief. in this case, because we the race going on, the emergency crus were actually already on the property so they were almost to get there almost as soon as it happened. looking at the tape it seems like the plane is going to land on the runway, so why did it suddenly drop? after the crash, darby says he s able to talk to the pilot who tells him something shocking.