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Old Jan 15, 2009 | 2:40 pm
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A water landing is pretty amazing. Great pilot indeed. Makes me think of those large fire fighting planes that skim the water. Incredible he had the control to skim the water and not plunge in nose first.
Pretty amazing too to see the ferries all crowd around to gather up the passengers. Takes a bit of skill to manuever close and not hurt anyone during rescue.
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