Mike Durant

And I got to pull back even more, which is the opposite of what I'd like to be able to do.

But I can't dive because I'm only at 70 feet.

So we're in this impossible scenario where we're like, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo.

And all I could see is brown earth and blue sky, just the line.

Everything else is a complete blur.

And I said to Ray, I guess we better pull him off.

And he's already going.

I mean, he knows.

And the reason he has to do it is the power control levers on a Blackhawk are up overhead.

They control the engines.

And the engines are what's creating this torque that's spinning the aircraft.

It's not a great thing to not have engines, but if you can cut the power to the engines, at least the spin will stop.

But then you're going to fall from the sky.

So he goes for him.

But we were spinning so violently.

And we talked about this actually on the ground.

We're both instructors, so why the hell would that be what you talk about on the ground?

Because that's just what you do.

He said to me he couldn't hold his arms up.

That's how fast we're spinning.