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Is there an instance
in an airplane emergency...
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when you can recall fear?
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Uh, well, I remember this one time,
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I'm in a Banshee at night in
combat conditions, so there's no
running lights on the carrier.
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It was the Shangri'-la,
and we were in the Sea of Japan.
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My radar had jammed,
and my homing signal was gone...
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because somebody in Japan
was actually using the same frequency,
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and so it was leading me away
from where I was supposed to be.
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I'm looking down at a big, black ocean,
so I flip on my map light.
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Then, suddenly, zap, everything
shorts out right there in my cockpit.
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All my instruments are gone.
My lights are gone and I can't
even tell what my altitude is.
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I know I'm running out of fuel, so I'm
thinking about ditching into the ocean.
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I look down there
and then, in the darkness,
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there's this, uh,
there's this green trail.
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It's like a long carpet that's just laid
out right beneath me. It was the algae.
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It was that phosphorescent stuff...
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that gets churned up
in the wake of a big ship.
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It was, it was, it was
just leading me home.
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If my cockpit lights
hadn't shorted out,
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there's no way I'd have ever
been able to see that.
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So, uh, you, uh,
you never know...
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what, what events are going
to transpire to get you home.
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Spacecraft commander Jim Lovell,
no stranger to emergencies.
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'- How's it going, Fred?
'- I'm okay.
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What the hell was that?
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Let's hope it was
just the burst disk.
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'- Can you confirm a burst helium disk?
'- We confirm that.
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Houston, is that going to
affect our, uh, entry angle at all?
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Uh, negative. Your entry angle
is holding at 6.24, Aquarius.
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Houston, uh...
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we, we sure could use...