Pilot minutes before ocean crash: ‘It doesn’t look good’
Associated PressHONOLULU — Two pilots told air traffic controllers that their engine had cut out and they needed help moments before crashing their cargo plane into the Pacific Ocean off Hawaii on Friday. “It doesn’t look good out here,” one of the pilots said before the Boeing 737 broke apart as it entered the water. 1 engine, and we’re coming straight to the airport,” one of the pilots said in air traffic control communications. Later, a rescuer aboard a Coast Guard helicopter sent to search for the pilots tells air traffic control: “We do have an aircraft in the water. We are in contact with the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board and are working to gather more information.” There have been some water landings over the years in which people survived, the most famous being the 2009 crash of a US Airways flight in New York’s Hudson River where all 155 people on board survived.
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