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Aмeрикaнцы собирaлись-тaки выпрыгивaть с пaрaшютaми.
Привeтствую.
Cecka, top, and Comerford spoke to CNN's Larry King
Larry King: Freed crewmen offer new details
about collision, detainment
April 14, 2001
Web posted at: 10:38 p.m. EDT (0238 GMT)
Freed Navy crewmen John Comerford and David Cecka appeared Saturday on "Larry King Live" and offered new details about the April 1 collision between a U.S. surveillance plane and a Chinese fighter jet, and the crew's subsequent detainment.
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KING: David, where were you in the plane?
CECKA: I was sitting just up from Lt. Comerford and I'd heard that the plane was coming pretty close and so I'd gotten up to take a look and it just took one look of the plane off our wing tip and I'd seen enough. I went back and sat down and strapped in. Shortly after that the plane began to bump us. Originally, I'd thought possibly he was just playing, maybe bumping the tip of our wing, trying to do whatever he was trying to do. And the next thing I know, it was a real hard, hard bang and a then a second, and then a very loud, bang and we went nose down and I kind of went into automatic pilot after that. I heard a command to bail out and our training took over after that.
Cecka, top, and Comerford spoke to CNN's Larry King
KING: Did you think you were going to bail out?
CECKA: I thought so. After we regained somewhat control of the aircraft, we were all in our parachutes and lined up. They were moving the ladder back and preparing to open the main cabin door. And it was just second-by-second and there was a good opportunity that we would have gone out.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/04/14/crewmen.debrief/