believe some coast guard as well. holy crap. the pilot and the passenger are under water. did they get out of plane? they re out. but both managed to swim out of the cockpit and onto a pair of wave runners that arrive on the scene. dude, 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 had the race going on, emergency crews 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. 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 seawal
plunging the pilot and passenger under water. oh, my goodness. it was just unbelievable to me. march 25th, 2011, dave darby is spending the afternoon at albert whitted airfield, a small airport just outside tampa, florida. my buddy, kirk, who s been building this air control tower back here, he s been doing it for the past year and a half. i hadn t come out to check it out yet, so he wanted me to come see it, so we decided to conveniently come and check it out the day the honda grand prix was going on. the honda grand prix is an open-wheel indycar race and portions of the airport, including our east-west runway, become part of the actual race course. the tower provides a perfect view to watch the race, so dave decides to bring his camera along. 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
at new york s jfk international airport, a large transcontinental airplane clips the tail of a smaller regional jet, spinning it with jarring 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 reasons why they should not take their seat belts off before they reach the gate. 563. send the trucks. i just hit it. a massive airfrance airbus a380 taxing to the runway crashes into it, turning it about 45 degrees. attention, emergency equipment. once ground control receives word of the accident, they immediately dispatch emergency personnel. after moving both planes away from the crash site, crews work to cleanup any debris on the runway.
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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, this 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 the 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. 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 st. pete police department because they had a boat already in the water for the race and i