John Eberle
John Eberle
events happens mark train
You train for these events routinely, but when it happens you don't know how you're going to react. Mark and me, as a team, we did well.
cell couple mark minutes phone plane reached stayed takes
Mark stayed calm, reached in his pocket, takes out his cell phone and dialed 911. It was just beautiful. And then from there, a couple of minutes later, the plane went under.
knew maintained
We just went for it, we knew that we had to do it, we maintained our composure.
playing
We were playing for keeps. We didn't say that we were. We didn't say, 'What are we going to do now?' We just went for it.
climbed help top
We climbed to the top of the tail. That didn't help too much. It was underwater.
recognized
The propeller sputtered and that was it ... we recognized it was an emergency.