1943, out of darkness. a japanese destroyer traveling at 40 knots. 19-year-old harold marney is stationed in that gun turret. he gave the alarm, ship at 2:00. reporter: 2:00. jamie: the ship slices right through pt109. right here this wing tank, actually exploded. jamie: hard to imagine anyone could have survived. things happened so fast, he probably got sucked into the weight of the ship. jamie: harold and a second sailor andrew did not have a chance, the surviving sailors swam to a small string of islands and take refuge until they are rescued 6 days later, lute kennedy writes to harl s mother, jennie marney. this letter to offer my
1943, out of darkness. a japanese destroyer traveling at 40 knots. 19-year-old harold marney is stationed in that gun turret. he gave the alarm, ship at 2:00. reporter: 2:00. jamie: the ship slices right through pt109. right here this wing tank, actually exploded. jamie: hard to imagine anyone could have survived. things happened so fast, he probably got sucked into the weight of the ship. jamie: harold and a second sailor andrew did not have a chance, the surviving sailors swam to a small string of islands and take refuge until they are rescued 6 days later, lute kennedy writes to harl s mother, jennie marney. this letter to offer my
air, and then it was skiing. we landed. it started skiing. then it hit the side of the rail. and it went 400 yards. next thing that we knew it came to a halt. we all kind of went forward. after that, they evacuated us from the back. we got out in the back. i think the snow definitely had something to do with it because you can t slow down in snow. i m not sure. the pilot didn t say anything after we landed or anything like that. so i m not sure what was going on with that. does that sound like typical protocol? what do you make of those eyewitness accounts? yeah that sounds fairly typical. it seems that the port authority police and fire department at the airport performed immaculately in this circumstance, which is very very fortunate that there wasn t a fire. it appears the fuel which is in a wing tank was breached. that could result in a fire right away. it s highly flammable.
came off after the missile struck, did its damage. this came unzipped and floated down to earth. what can you tell about things like that. when you look at the wheels or it, does this tell you anything in. that s part of the center wheel chassises. again, right near to center wing tank. obviously there was plenty of fuel there when this thing was coming down. it was on fire. i m going to guess pieces like this, a door similar to the one you talked about before. let me ask you one other. look at these personal effects here. things that people had on board there. right now we have many victim of this presumably in the wreckage out there now for days, the scene is decaying. the actual evidence you want there. but how do investigators deal with that when you walk into the middle of all of this and here are people and their lives? it is the most difficult thing you can imagine, particularly with children. you see parts of people s lives,
the ground on the runway in kuala lumpur and take off in just a moment. fuel will be the real consideration. we believe they were loaded with seven hours of fuel. let me show you something here on the dash board. i can call up the fuel load. it s listed here on this tv screen and these are the wing tanks. it s got, well, nearly 20,000 kilos of fuel in each wing tank and nearly 30,000 in the center tank. our total fuel is nearly 70,000 kilos. that s not anywhere near as full of fuel as this plane could possibly be. but it s a good start. we think that s what we were at. so if you would, please, take us off, mitchell. and the whole idea here, carol, is to, again, this aircraft is simulating everything we know about flight 370, including, of course, they took off at night and were originally headed to beijing. that s what they fueled for. they would have given themselves extra fuel. every pilot would do that to build in for any potential