Martin McNally

I said, okay, let's get on the radio here and tell the pilot to speed up, slow down, speed up, slow down.

So we did that and we got it going.

It was going probably 330 miles per hour.

This was huge speed.

And, yeah, we're getting into the story here about losing the money and everything.

But I had my itinerary.

I was going to land south of Detroit, south of Toledo, and just go home and live my day.

Like they say in the military, if something can go wrong, it will go wrong.

And this thing here, like everything went wrong, and it was terrible.

I couldn't imagine in any lifetime that somebody would be in a Cadillac coming down the runway,

to destroy this aircraft, there would have been a hell of an explosion if we had been rolling down for the takeoff.

We're going, let's say, 50 or 60, 70 miles per hour, and we're hitting this Cadillac.

Everything collapses.

10,000 gallons of fuel explodes.

I'm dead, and I'm not out here today talking to you.

after I had all the money and everything, I let everybody go.

I think we had about 15 men on the plane at that time.

Because earlier when we first landed at about 4 o'clock, 4 p.m.

or something, I said, we need to get all the women and children off of this plane.

All the women and children off this plane.