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Jan 15, 2009, 2:18 pm

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Absolutely astonishing...and proves it's possible to do a survivable water ditch contrary to what some people think. Just watching on Sky News - appears to be an amazing piece of airmanship so far. Airborne less than 3 minutes apparently.

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