Taiwanese flight 52on boa4d hit expressway bridge and sank into Kee Long river

emeritus CB · Feb 4, 2015

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https://tw.news.yahoo.com/即時-復興航空墜基隆河-已知4人死亡-045347953.html

復興班機墜基隆河！ 53乘客已知4死
台灣醒報*–*2015年2月4日下午12:53

【台灣醒報記者游昇俯綜合報導】又見空難！復興航空台北飛金門民航機4日上午10點50分在擦撞高架橋後，墜落南陽大橋旁基隆河裡，目擊者指出，班機撞橋後曾企圖拉起機頭，但最終沒有成功。機上有53位乘客，其中2名兒童失蹤，新北市消防局立刻派出大隊人馬搶救，目前已知有4人死亡。
民航局證實，4日上午復興航空一架從台北松山機場飛往金門的ATR-72班機，在南港失聯，在南陽大橋旁墜河。民航局表示，機上有53位乘客、5名機組員，其中包括2名兒童。搶救陸續救出10人，傷者送往汐止國泰醫院與國軍松山醫院進行救治，已知有4人死亡。目前仍有38人受困機艙，等待救援。
復興航空ATR-72班機疑似擦撞到高架橋後，墜落到汐止距南湖大橋800公尺的內溝溪抽水站附近。據目擊者指出，飛機撞橋後曾企圖拉起機頭，但沒有成功，飛機擦撞高架橋，還波及橋上一輛計程車，隨即墜落基隆河。
新北市消防局10時55分獲報，消防局緊急派遣第六大隊、中隊和3個分隊前往搶救，先後派出救護車12輛、吊車等重型機具3輛，以及3艘救生艇。因應復興航空客機緊急降落意外，環東大道進城方向封閉經貿一路匝道及國3南港聯絡道南港經貿園區出口，台北市政府已成立一級災害應變中心全力處理中。

laksaboy · Feb 4, 2015

[video=youtube;A46McrY4AVo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A46McrY4AVo[/video]

Aeroplane · Feb 4, 2015

Taiwan plane crash: Stunning video shows flight clip bridge before falling into river

In this image made from Associated Press Television video, a commercial plane lies in river after crashing in Taipei, Taiwan, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015. The Taiwanese commercial flight with 53 passengers aboard clipped a bridge shortly after takeoff and crashed into a river in the island's capital of Taipei on Wednesday morning. (AP Photo)

By Associated Press
on February 03, 2015 at 11:37 PM, updated February 04, 2015 at 12:03 AM

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- A Taiwanese flight with 58 people aboard clipped a bridge shortly after takeoff and careened into a river Wednesday in the island's capital of Tapei, killing at least two people, officials said.

Parts of the wrecked fuselage of the turboprop ATR 72 jutted out of the shallow Keelung River just a couple dozen meters from the shore near the city's downtown Sungshan airport.

Rescuers clustered around the plane in rubber boats.

Aviation authority director Lin Chi-ming told a news conference that two people were killed aboard the TransAsia Airways flight. The country's Central News Agency later said three people had died, and that they were among passengers taken to a hospital. There was no immediate word given on the fate of the remaining people aboard.

[video=youtube;0fWhYJNZt08]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fWhYJNZt08[/video]

CNA said the flight from Taipei to the outlying island of Kinmen lost contact with flight controllers at 10:55 a.m. and the fuselage landed in the Keelung River near the city's downtown Sungshan airport.

It was the second of TransAsia's French-made ATR 72 to crash in the past year. Last July, a flight crashed while attempting to land on the island of Penghu off Taiwan's coast, killing 48 people and injuring another 10. Stormy weather and low visibility were suspected as factors in that crash.

Semaj2357 · Feb 4, 2015

these "calamity chinks", "miserable mudlanders" and "idiotic indons" all cmi when it comes to flying :eek:

Rogue Trader · Feb 4, 2015

Semaj2357 said:
..."miserable mudlanders"...

mulfunctional mudlanders :wink:

glockman · Feb 4, 2015

Thus far, nine are killed due to pilot error. That's why I really hate flying, it's putting my life into someone's hands. And I have no idea how skilled the pilots are, or their fucking frame of mind.

xpo2015 · Feb 4, 2015

[video=youtube;KicMU_AsSQI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KicMU_AsSQI[/video]

laksaboy · Feb 4, 2015

[video=youtube;74O_XgI_KaA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74O_XgI_KaA[/video]

That yellow taxi was lucky? Or unlucky? :biggrin:

3_M · Feb 4, 2015

glockman said:
Thus far, nine are killed due to pilot error. That's why I really hate flying, it's putting my life into someone's hands. And I have no idea how skilled the pilots are, or their fucking frame of mind.

Actually take-off part is the easiest in flying. Seems more like Engine Failure After Take- off (EFATO)

Semaj2357 · Feb 4, 2015

Rogue Trader said:
mulfunctional mudlanders

thanks, I've "mulled" over it and it's apt :p

laksaboy said:
[video=youtube;74O_XgI_KaA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74O_XgI_KaA[/video]
That yellow taxi was lucky? Or unlucky?

real lucky i would say, as a direct hit would've sliced it and be a "t"-bone from the side :eek:

singveld · Feb 4, 2015

that a stall too.

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most unlucky taxi driver

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Mirage · Feb 5, 2015

TransAsia plane lifted from river; 31 confirmed dead

TransAsia Airways passenger flight clips bridge and taxi before hitting the water; 12 people remain missing

PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 04 February, 2015, 11:55am
UPDATED : Thursday, 05 February, 2015, 1:52am

Lawrence Chung in Taipei [email protected]

Shocked survivors climb out of the wreckage of the plane after it crashed in Taiwan's Keelung River. Photo: Screengrab

Rescuers continued to search for the missing people from the TransAsia Airways flight that clipped a bridge shortly after take-off and crashed into a river in Taipei yesterday morning, killing at least 31 people.

Using a massive crane, rescuers had last night pulled the three pieces of Flight GE235 from the Keelung River, Taiwan's Central News Agency reported. The fuselage and tail were brought to shore a little after 8pm, and the nose was lifted just after midnight, according to Taipei City Fire Department officials. The bodies of the pilot, co-pilot and a crew member were found in the water shortly later and two other passengers were discovered half a kilometre away in the river.

Twelve people remained missing and 15 survivors were being treated in hospital.

Civil aviation authorities ordered the island’s 22 ATR-72 aircrafts grounded for safety checks, including six owned by TransAsia.

A total of 53 passengers, including four children, and five crew members were on board the ATR 72-600 propeller aircraft when it departed Taipei's Songshan Airport at 10.52am bound for Quemoy.

The air tower lost contact at around 10.53am, Lin Chih-ming, director of the Civil Aeronautics Administration, told a press conference. A dashboard cam inside a car later caught the plane flying on its side as it clipped the bridge, before crashing at 10.56 am.

Six of the 31 mainland passengers aboard were dead, Xinhua reported. Many were from the southeastern city of Xiamen on a six-day tour to Taiwan by way of Quemoy, a former defence outpost of Taiwan.

One Taiwanese passenger was a Hong Kong identity card holder, the Immigration Department confirmed. A spokesman was unable to say whether he was among the survivors.

Liao Chin-hui, head of the Aviation Development Foundation, said the pilot apparently did his best to avoid hitting high-rise buildings, an industrial park and a residential area when he managed to fly along the Keelung River before slightly brushing the elevated highway.

"The way he flew the plane showed that the pilot had tried hard to avoid those structures. He did the best he could," Liao said.

President Xi Jinping called for measures to take care of the affected families, while Premier Li Keqiang urged stepped-up communication between mainland and Taiwan authorities.

The State Council's Taiwan Affairs Office had activated an emergency mechanism, and would dispatch a team to Taiwan.

The Aviation Safety Council said divers had retrieved the black box, "We are still investigating the cause of the accident," said a council official.

The emergency task force set up by authorities in Taipei had sought help from the military to dispatch two amphibious bridging and ferrying systems to aid the rescue work.

Watch: Dozens killed after TransAsia plane crashes in Taiwan

It was the second deadly crash in seven months for TransAsia, with the same plane model crashing into the offshore tourist island of Penghu in July, killing 48 people. The airline's CEO Peter Chen led company officials in making a deep bow of apology to the public and the victims' families.

Video footage showed the plane brushed a taxi on the elevated highway. The trunk of the taxi was smashed with its windshield broken into pieces. Both the driver and a passenger narrowly escaped the impact, and were sent to hospital for treatment of slight injuries.

The taxi hit by TransAsia Airways Flight GE235.

johnny333 · Feb 5, 2015

I notice that in all of these air crashes the life preserver did not save lives.

Just imagine the amount of weight that could be saved from the plane if they removed all of these preservers from the plane.

blissquek · Feb 5, 2015

glockman said:
Thus far, nine are killed due to pilot error. That's why I really hate flying, it's putting my life into someone's hands. And I have no idea how skilled the pilots are, or their fucking frame of mind.

Looking at the clip reminds me of our own military Paya Lebar airbase .

I always remind my friends not to look for properties along the pathway of these military jets and jumbo Hercules cC30.

You never know if one day a pilot misjudge and land some 400 metres short.

They should re-locate the airfield sooner and not wait for another 30 years..

looneytan · Feb 5, 2015

1598

Everybody now .... HUAT HUAT AH!!!

looneytan · Feb 5, 2015

laksaboy said:
[video=youtube;74O_XgI_KaA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74O_XgI_KaA[/video]

This car driver also must be day dreaming ... see the plane came down like that never reduce his speed

LuXun · Feb 5, 2015

looneytan said:
This car driver also must be day dreaming ... see the plane came down like that never reduce his speed

Close shave for him and his passenger.

johnny333 · Feb 5, 2015

blissquek said:
Looking at the clip reminds me of our own military Paya Lebar airbase .

I always remind my friends not to look for properties along the pathway of these military jets and jumbo Hercules cC30.

You never know if one day a pilot misjudge and land some 400 metres short.

They should re-locate the airfield sooner and not wait for another 30 years..

I remember visiting a friends place in Tampines back when Paya Lebar was still being used as Spores civilian airport. It was very near to the airfield & damn noisy whenever a jet was taking off. Don't know how they could stand all that noise on a daily basis :confused:

Mirage · Feb 6, 2015

Taiwan official confirms pilot’s ‘mayday’ call authentic as air crash death toll rises

Taiwan’s aviation regulator also orders "special checks" on all 22 turboprop ATR aircraft on the island

PUBLISHED : Thursday, 05 February, 2015, 10:16am
UPDATED : Thursday, 05 February, 2015, 7:24pm

Keira Lu Huang and Andrea Chen [email protected] [email protected]

Members of a search-and-rescue team use a boat to look for 12 people today who remain missing in Keelung River, in New Taipei City, near wreckage of the aircraft. Photo: AFP

The search has continued today for 12 missing people from the TransAsia Airway flight that clipped a bridge soon after take-off and crashed into a river in Taipei yesterday, killing at least 31 people.

An aviation official also confirmed today the authenticity of a recording of one of the pilots of the stricken aircraft saying “mayday, mayday, engine flameout” moments before it banked sharply and crashed.

The aircraft – carrying 53 passengers, including four children, and five crew members – was seen to lurch between buildings, then clip the bridge with one of its wings before crashing upside down in the shallow river at about 10.55am yesterday, shortly after taking off from Taipei’s Songshan International Airport.

Taiwanese rescue officials have refused to give up hope of finding those people who are still missing.

"We have not found survivors or bodies of the 12 missing people, but we will not give up; we’ll continue to search," Yeh Chun-hsing, an official with Taipei’s fire department, told reporters.

Rescuers look on as part of the wreckage of one of the TransAsia aircraft's engines is lifted from the crash site. Photo: Reuters

The official at Taiwan's Civil Aeronautical Administration, who declined to be named, confirmed that the widely broadcast audio clip of the distress call, made during exchanges between the control tower of Taipei's Songshan International Airport and the pilot of doomed TransAsia Flight GE235, was genuine.

However, the official but did not say how it might relate to the cause of the crash.

This sequence of images shows the plane moments before it crashed.

A transcript of excerpts of that exchange reads:

Control tower: “(inaudible) ... wind 100 degrees, 9.9 knots. Clear to take off”

Pilot: “Clear to take off, runway 10, TransAsia 235”

Pilot: “(inaudible) ... mayday, mayday, engine flameout”

Control tower: “TransAsia 235, please try again. Contact Taipei, approach on 119.7”

Control tower: “TransAsia 235. Control tower ... TransAsia 235. Control tower”

Video images of the plane’s final moments in the air captured on car dashboard cameras appear to show the left engine’s propeller at standstill as the aircraft turned sharply over Taipei, with its wings going vertical and clipping a highway bridge before plunging into the Keelung River yesterday.

Engine flameout refers to flames being extinguished in the combustion chamber of the engine, so that it shuts down and no longer drives the propeller.

Causes of a flameout could include a lack of fuel or being struck by a bird, volcanic ash or some other object. “Mayday” is an international emergency call.

Taiwan’s aviation regulator has also ordered operators of all 22 turboprop ATR planes on the island to carry out "special checks" on their aircraft.

The checks would focus on the engines, fuel control system, propeller systems, and spark plugs and ignition connectors in the turboprop aircraft, it said in a statement.

Relatives of the aircraft's mainland Chinese passengers arrive at Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport, in Fujian province, today before flying to Taiwan. Photo: Xinhua

A volunteer consoles a relative of a passenger on the aircraft as he arrives at the airport in Xiamen today before flying to Taiwan. Photo: Xinhua

However, it has not ordered the grounding of the aircraft, despite yesterday's accident being the second fatal crash involving a TransAsia plane in seven months.

Both of the aircraft's engines were recovered from the crash site this afternoon and taken to shore for examination by air accident investigators, Taiwan's Central News Agency reported.

Taipei’s mayor hailed the dead pilot a hero today after the aircraft narrowly avoided hitting buildings before crashing in a river.

"He really tried everything he could," Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je said, his voice breaking into sobs.

This afternoon, heartbroken relatives of some of the mainland passengers on board the ill-fated TransAir aircraft arrived in Taiwan.

The first group of 15 relatives, and 11 employees of a Xiamen-based travel agency, took a Mandarin Airlines flight to Taoyuan International Airport, the agency said.

Tang Ke, the fiancée of mainland tourist guide Wang Qinghuo, who died in the crash, was also among the first group to arrive in Taiwan, the Taiwanese newspaper United Daily News reported.

The couple had planned to marry on Sunday, mainland media reported yesterday.

Some relatives fought to hold back tears, as they said they hoped to get to the crash scene and the funeral parlour where the bodies of their loved ones had been taken as soon as possible.

Many were openly weeping on their way from the airport to the bus arranged by TransAir.

A second group of 17 relatives and six travel agency staff were expected to arrive in Taiwan at 6.45pm.

TransAsia Flight GE235 was on its third flight of the day at the time of the crash and there had been no records of any malfunction during the previous two flights, the CAA statement said.

Macau’s Civil Aviation Authority said in a statement that the plane’s engines had been replaced at Macau Airport on April 19 last year, during its delivery flight, “due to engine-related technical issues”.

Taiwan’s Ministry of Transportation and Communications said it had banned TransAsia Airlines from applying for new aviation rights for one year while it carried out an investigation into the crash.

A military policeman inspects passengers' luggage recovered today from the wreckage of the aircraft. Photo: EPA

About 60 divers have been searching the waters of Keelung River in New Taipei City, just outside the capital, Taipei, supported by at least 20 rescue boats.

A relative of a passenger killed during the plane crash weeps today at Taipei Funeral Parlour, in New Taipei City. Photo: AFP

Search teams found another body in the wreckage of ATR 72-600 propeller aircraft this morning, bringing the death toll to 31, the agency reported.

Fifteen other people were injured in the crash.

The agency reported that most survivors had been seated in the rear of the aircraft.

Those who survived the crash were pulled from the open door of a relatively undamaged section of the fuselage, which remained jutting above the river’s surface after the crash.

Among the survivors was a family of three, including a two-year-old boy whose heart stopped beating after three minutes under water. The child, Lin Jih-yao, recovered after receiving CPR, his uncle, Lin Ming-yi, told reporters.

During the night the bodies of the aircraft’s captain, Liao Chien-tsung, 42, and his two first officers – co-pilot Liu Tzu-chung and flight engineer Hung Ping-chung – were discovered in the Keelung River, the agency reported.

Police diver Cheng Ying-chih said the search and rescue efforts were being hampered by “zero visibility” in the turbid river and cold water temperatures that were forcing divers to work on one-hour shifts.

He said the front of the plane had broken into numerous pieces, making the job all the more difficult.

“We’re looking at a very tough search and rescue job,” Cheng told reporters gathered on the river bank, beside the wreckage where luggage had been removed and placed in neat rows.

A crane lifts the fuselage of the TransAsia aircraft from Keelung River onto the riverbank, in New Taipei City, early this morning. Photo: AFP

The mangled rear part of the fuselage lay upside down, its wings and tail assembly sheared off and multiple holes torn into its side.

At midday today, about a dozen relatives of Taiwanese victims arrived at the riverbank to perform traditional mourning rituals.

Accompanied by Buddhist monks ringing brass bells, they bowed to the river and held aloft cloth inscriptions tied to pieces of bamboo meant to guide the spirits of the dead to rest.

This afternoon, Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou visited five injured passengers in hospital in Taipei.

The five included the driver and female passenger of a taxi on the bridge that was struck by the wing of the aircraft as it crashed.

The United Daily News quoted him saying that aviation authorities needed to carry out an in-depth review and anyone found to be to blame for the accident must be penalised.

Ma stayed at the hospital for about 30 minutes before leaving to go to a funeral parlour in Taipei, to pay his respects to victims of the crash.

Relatives of the victims pray on the riverbank, next to the crash site in New Taipei City, during a traditional mourning ritual. Photo: AP

Six of the 31 mainland passengers on board the flight were dead, Xinhua reported.

Three other mainland passengers were among the injured.

Many of the mainlanders were from the southeastern city of Xiamen on a six-day tour to Taiwan by way of Quemoy, a former defence outpost of Taiwan.

One mainland passenger with severe injuries was due to undergo surgery later today, an official at Taipei City Hospital said.

Chief Executive of TransAsia Peter Chen (third right) bows with other executives of the company during a news conference after the TransAsia Airways plane crash. Photo: Reuters

Last night, the wreckage of Flight GE235 was lifted from the river by a crane.

Three large pieces were retrieved, with the severely damaged main fuselage of the aircraft and tail brought ashore at about 8pm.

The nose section was lifted from the water on to the riverbank shortly after midnight.

The force of the crash was seen to have pushed the aircraft's cockpit area down into the cargo hold.

Another part of the aircraft still remains at the bottom of the river as rescuers continue to search the surface areas of the river for missing passengers.

Emergency personnel retrieve the body of a passenger from the wreckage of a TransAsia Airways turboprop ATR 72-600 aircraft after it was crashed in a river, in New Taipei City. Photo: Reuters

Beijing will assist the investigation into the TransAsia air crash, the agency reported.

It is the first time a mainland agency will have participated in an air crash investigation in Taiwan.

An official at the Aviation Safety Council said that according to the Convention on International Civil Aviation, the state of passengers on board the aircraft was permitted to participate in the investigation.

Several representatives of the Xiamen Tourism Bureau arrived at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport at 10.25am today.

China National Tourism Administration sent a team, led by Liu Kezhi, head of the Department of Affairs on Tourism of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, to Taiwan today to assist the search efforts and also arrange for relatives of the mainland passengers to travel to the island.

Watch: The moment a TransAsia plane hits bridge and crashes in Taiwan

Officials from Canada’s Transportation Safety Board were also due to arrive in Taiwan this morning, while investigators from the BEA (Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyses pour la sécurité de l’aviation civile) were expected to arrive there this afternoon.

The turboprop aircraft was made in France and the engine was made in Canada.

Today's search for 12 people on the aircraft who are still missing was briefly interrupted at about 1am because of low temperatures and poor visibility, the agency said.

Rescuers then resumed their efforts by searching the surface areas of the river.

Two rescue boats had begun the overnight search of the crash scene at about midnight.

The belongings of passengers were also placed on the riverbank beside the wreckage.

The airline will work with family members to identify passengers’ luggage.

It was the second deadly crash in seven months for TransAsia, with the same plane model crashing into the offshore tourist island of Penghu in July, killing 48 people.

The latest crash has stirred up concerns over whether Songshan International Airport should be closed.

Taipei's original airport is located close to residential areas and its air safety level has long been a source of controversy.

It normally handles domestic routes within Taiwan and flights to China, South Korea and Japan, while Taipei's newer Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport deals with most of the flights abroad.

Only last year a Democratic Progressive Party legislator suggested closing the airport and changing the site into a park.

Following the crash, a legislator from the ruling Kuomintang Nationalist Party, has repeated this call and called on the government to act soon.

Lai Cheng-I, chairman of Taiwan’s General Chamber of Commerce, said today that the newer airport was able to handle all of Taipei’s air traffic and that the land used by Songshan International Airport could be put to better use.

Today Zhang Zhijun, head of the mainland's Taiwan affairs office, postponed his official visit to Quemoy – originally scheduled on February 7 and 8 – to express his condolences to survivors and relatives of the victims of the crash, the spokesperson of the office said.

Zhang had been due to meet his Taiwanese counterpart, Wang Yu-chi, in Quemoy.

Quemoy officials said they respected Zhang’s decision.

Mirage · Feb 6, 2015

Air disaster survivors describe final moments as plane hit bridge and crashed into the river

One passenger says he regained senses in flooded fuselage and managed to get his wife and baby to safety. Another saw a stewardess thrown to ceiling in her seat as plane went down

PUBLISHED : Thursday, 05 February, 2015, 2:04pm
UPDATED : Thursday, 05 February, 2015, 6:35pm

Lawrence Chung in Taipei [email protected]

Relatives of those who died in the disaster pray at the riverbank. Photo: AP

A survivor of the Taipei air disaster has said there was no warning from the crew in the moments leading up to the crash and has described his horror as the airliner struck a bridge and plummeted into a river.

Bank clerk Lin Ming-wei, 37, is recovering in hospital after the accident on Wednesday morning.

He has spoken about his ordeal to his brother Lin Ming-yi, who briefed reporters at Taipei City Hospital.

Lin said it had felt strange that the aircraft was flying so low after taking off from the city’s domestic airport, but he could see that the pilot was trying to climb and there was no indication from the crew that there was a problem.

He saw the plane bank 90 degrees to the left and then hit the bridge, plunging into the river. “It was horrifying,” Lin was quoted as saying.

He was on board the aircraft with his 34-year-old wife Chiang Yu-ying and their two-year-old son Lin Jih-yao.

He said he briefly lost consciousness, but when he regained his senses the cabin was filled with water and his wife was nearby soaked to the skin.

He looked for his son and saw that he was upside down with his head in the water, still with his seat belt on, but he quickly managed to pull him up.

“I told myself I could not lose my son and kept performing CPR to bring him back, which he did eventually,” Lin was quoted as saying by his brother.

Lin and several other survivors climbed out of the broken section of the plane and were rescued.

He and his family are still in an intensive care ward, but doctors have said their condition is stable.

Another survivor of the crash said he could not hear the noise of the engines after the plane took off.

Chen Ming-chung, 50, told his wife the aircraft then banked hard to the left and there was the sound of an impact.

“My husband saw a stewardess wearing a seat belt get thrown to the ceiling of the cabin in her seat and there were screams everywhere,” Chen’s wife told reporters at the hospital where he is receiving treatment in Taipei.

“Some passengers were hit by debris while other’s bodies were pierced by sharp metal. It was like a bloodbath in a movie,” she said.

“The left side of the plane was filled with muddy water and a crack had opened in the tail with light beaming in. Some passengers started to shout ‘quickly climb towards the crack’ as water flowed in,” she said.

Her husband was unable to open his seat belt to scramble to safety, but another man came to help free him after he shouted for help.

“My husband said he must find that man and thank him personally,” she said.

Chen told his wife he feels lucky to be alive because he switched seats to the right-hand side of the aircraft after he boarded the plane.

The left side of the airliner bore the brunt of the impact as it hit the water, he said.

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