it s throttles down to flight idle. literally just turning over. producing enough thrust for control of the aircraft. at any given point, you can push it. the thrusters are what people think of as the throttles. you can push them forward. firewall them all the way and the engines spool up quite quickly but it takes a couple of seconds to do it. that s one thing this plane didn t have. there were only a couple of hundred feet if that above the water. they were at stall speed and know from the stick shaker and they literally i mean, the engines at flight idle. to go from flight idle to total power would take a couple of second and that s what we didn t have. richard, you know, we have been playing this exclusive video you are seeing now and i want you to stand by because i want to talk about that with you as well as with another aviation expert. we re going to play the video for you in its entirety and hear from the man who shot it.