Dale Comstock

So think about that for a minute.

Now, had it been the other two helicopters with one pilot, that might've been a problem, right?

So call it serendipity.

So we stripped a lot of the weight, the avionics.

We, we paired down two helicopters to one pilot each.

And then right before zero, 20 after midnight is when we launched.

So the flight time, it was a minute and 43 seconds to 46 seconds.

I got to look at my notes, but it wasn't a long flight.

We left Howard Air Force Base, went across the Bridge of Americas.

We went through what was called Ancon Hill.

It was like a saddle.

And as soon as you breach that saddle, right there in front of you is the prison, the commandant's, all of Panama.

And so off we go.

We go through the saddle.

And then the snipers, as soon as we come through the saddle, those snipers start engaging.

And as soon as they start engaging, it's just a melee on the street, man.

There were just people running everywhere and people shooting back.

We don't know who's shooting who because...

We're literally moving at about 40 feet, 50 feet off the deck in these little birds.

And we're not going very fast because the problem was the weight again, right?