very short to the runway. the distress calls go silent and the next thing, denison and gentry knew, their routine air patrol was about to become a dramatic rescue. i knew i was going to be able to put that aircraft on the ground a lot faster they were going to get there and get him out. while denison shuts down the chopper, gentry leaps out and runs to the plane. the engine is on fire. and the pilot is in bad shape. it was dark. he hit the dashboard of the cockpit pretty hard with his face. if i knew the individual, i wouldn t have recognized him. making the rescue even more difficult, the pilot is stuck and unconscious. fuel is leaking and at any moment, this cessna could blow. one way or another, that guy was coming out of that airplane before the airplane, you know, caught on fire. but the door is jammed, so gentry with all his strength
we know each other s strength and weaknesses kind of deal. it s like a married couple. you have your good days and bad days. it s around 11:00 p.m., 230 miles to the north. courier pilot mark love takes off from valdosta regional airport in georgia. heading for tampa, florida. soon, their paths would cross. it was right about here when gentry and denison heard that first distress call just before midnight. i m going to need runway 1-0. i ve lost pressure. the cessna was failing. do you want the equipment standing by? no, sir. let me talk to you on the ground. i m running a little rough here. i should be able to make it, though. as we heard the aircraft in distress, both of us kind of
every time i look across the street, there s the tire marks and the car marks on the building. that s very hard for me to continue to see and always brings it back. is this o neil, hi, buddy. we reunited the team of trainer and dog. where you been, huh? it s a happy ending to a bad situation. today, o neil is a dog helping people in a different way in fresno, california. what a big dog. how lucky i am to see him. very proud of him doing a job that s keeping people calm and he s part of that calmness. that shows you how well he handled that catastrophe. such a sweet boy, yes. tampa police pilot, dave
looked at each other. that s when we progressively started getting worse. then, just across the horizon, gentry spots a flickering speck on his infrared camera and zeros in. | a small white light. you can discern more that it s an aircraft and it is becoming larger. there s a portion of the tape that you actually hear us comment and i believe i said is that he s going to make it. he s got it. he s got it from there. but they were wrong. all vehicles, we need you to roll immediately. you guys do realize a single engine cessna heading straight for traffic on tampa s busy memorial highway. you can see love s plane narrowly miss a truck and then he crashes. only 40 yards from the runway. pd 4, thanks. we lost his light. very short to the runway. the distress calls go silent and the next thing, denison and
missed something. but your dad did it all his life. wasn t he a lawyer from there? yeah, he was good, too. but he was much broader than just new richmond, wisconsin. he was a leader in the wisconsin bar association. he was a counsel for a major company in minneapolis. he was a hell of a good trial lawyer. exceptional. so, you re 39 years old, and you came to washington, served the six months with the eisenhower administration. who asked you to stay on and continue as first assistant to the civil rights division assistant attorney general? well, brian, nobody asked me. i just worked hard, and i tried to let people know that i liked the job. i didn t talk to newspaper people. i didn t talk to statesmen, elected officials. and robert kennedy i became a good professional friend of robert kennedy s. he was always doing very nice things for me. i understand at one time ethel kennedy invited you to go out to the house and go swimming, and you turned it down. you didn t w