one of the wings, which has a winglet on it, actually sliced through the 737 wing. there was a lot of flight control systems that are damaged. it rendered the airplane incapacitated and uncontrollable, and as the 737 went out of control, of course, the aerodynamic forces actually caused it to start to break up in flight. everyone on board the legacy knows something bad has happened, but they don t know they ve collided with another aircraft. they don t even know their plane is damaged, until joe sharkie looks out his window. i open my window shutter and look out, this is a sight i ll simply never forget. because i m looking at the wing and part of it is missing. and it s a jagged bit of metal. they need on the ground and they need on the ground in a hurry. they need the first available airport. coming up, 35 heart-stopping
well, ted has been keeping something secret until now. his tale of the safra assassination attempt now includes a kidnapping. a threatening episode he says took place two days before the attack. ted claims his first encounter with the intruders actually occurred on his day off in nearby nice, france. a man stopped ted on the street while a van pulled up alongside them. i was pushed into the van. i was on the sidewalk. they abducted you. correct. threw you in the van? correct. ted says his abductors wore masks, had a gun and spoke in thick mediterranean accents. i was told some very specific things. and i said, i don t know what this all is about, but i m not going to do anything to hurt anyone. and i was told that i only had to do one thing. that one thing? ensure that a window shutter or
steel valance was left open near the nursing station. i said i m not doing anything to endanger anyone. at that point i was shown pictures of my family. and i couldn t believe what i was shown. you re telling me somebody has pictures of your family back in new york that they re showing you in the back of a van in the south of france? yes. these were surveillance photos? yes, they were. yes, they were. scared the hell out of me. edmond safra had a crack security team. why not go to them? why not tell them the security of edmond safra is compromised and your family has been threatened? my primary motive for my silence was the safety of my family. and i wasn t going to put them at risk. ted went to work the next night. he says the window shutter he d been warned about was already open. he believes the men who stabbed him came in through that window and says all he s guilty of is trying to protect his family as
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