How To Survive A Plane Crash | Minutes With | UNILAD | @LADbible TV

i got onto the left hand wing clambering over that door lip and then i stood onto the wing and was able to stand on the wing momentarily i jumped um i would estimate at a height of about fifteen one five feet [Music] i can remember going to luton airport back in the day and i was just a kid and you could get quite close to the activity you'd hear the the pilots kind of doing the engine tests and and throttling down the runway down that center line and the noise the smell of the uh the kerosene coming off the back of the aircraft and you know the desire to perhaps uh learn to fly myself one day was perhaps born during that time i'd been with an instructor for about three weeks duration i had a couple of different instructors during that time and everything was going very well and then i'd been solo for around about eight days it was one of those bluebird days you know the sun was was shining down on me you know birds in the trees kind of twittering and i was just thinking about what was what was coming ahead as far as i was concerned it was just another day solo and i was kind of hour building building up my experience and then i would have been coming back to the uk sort of job done sort of tick in the box and that ambition complete as it were nice and calm nice and gentle hand on the stick and then i go full throttle and i'm starting to take off and i'm starting to head higher and then once i get to a thousand feet i can pull back gently on the throttle and sort of level off so that the aircraft sort of goes from climbing to sort of leveling off a thousand feet and then i can kind of gently kind of cruise around in the pattern and do and do what i need to do i then did a look and i did a look again because i couldn't quite believe what i saw i was struck by an immediate vision if you will of a thin streak of visible yellow orange flame and i had to look again because it was a it was a shock initially and and i realized that it was fire and it was a thin streak and it was emanating from the front portion of the fuselage and i looked down at my feet on the rudder pedals i could see flame starting to lap and around the feet and the ankles inside the the chamber of the small two-seater cockpit that i'm sat in and i thought immediately christ this is no drill this is for real this is an emergency and i've got to get this aircraft down i immediately felt the heart sort of boom boom boom within my chest you know there i was a thousand feet well nowhere to go where am i gonna go you can't jump from that height uh people have asked me you know did you not have a parachute well you don't wear a parachute in a light aircraft i was under no illusion if i didn't get out of that burning cockpit quickly that um the likelihood was i wasn't going to make it i was going to be a goner and that fire would would have certainly overwhelmed me and um and and and i wouldn't i wouldn't have you know lived to tell the tale the only option i foresaw was indeed to to to try to to get out of that cockpit early but i needed to get her the aircraft that was to a safe level in order to to have any you know chance of of pulling that off cleanly and make it happen my mind then flicked back to one of the us instructors and i can distinctly remember it and he said and i quote above all if there's an emergency and you've got a problem fly the damn aircraft and these words kind of echoed and reverberated in in my in my memory and i and i thought i've got i've got to hold on i've got to get a grip here and i've got to do exactly that so i kept my left hand on the the flight control stick and my right hand on the throttle and i carefully just knocked off that power on the throttle to try to reduce air speed and i needed to reduce that significantly in order to get myself to a relatively safe speed approaching the active runway all the time i'm watching the altimeter spin down so through 900 feet 800 feet 700 feet 600 feet and i've got that left hand on control right hand on the throttle and i'm trying to breathe and i'm trying to think through it and i'm just trying to really calm it all down as much as possible when i flew over the top of the active runway i was literally 100 feet 50 feet by the time i'd cleared it i turn off the key magnetos alpha bravo the red switch is off in the center column fuel pump off rotate fuel selector valve through 90 degrees off everything off off off in sequence the at the lower at the lower reaches from 50 feet and below the fire was literally lapping my face that hand on the control stick the right hand on the throttle and i was literally in a vain bid if you will to protect my airway from flame ingress i then opened my left hand canopy door i can remember reaching across fiddling with the um the handle i then had to elbow it with my left elbow and punch it and strike it with the heel of my hand and i'm now 50 feet 40 feet 30 feet 20 feet all the time looking checking looking and at 20 feet i got onto the left hand wing clambering over that door lip and then i stood onto the wing and was able to stand on the wing momentarily but i had the backwash of the prop which is why i have this uh really aggressive sort of right side dominant burn and that affected my my scalp as you can see my right shoulder down the right hand side of my lower limb my left side was was significantly protected and that's uh was burned but it's indeed a lot healthier and so i jumped i would estimate a height of about 15 1-5 feet in reality i was probably traversing about perhaps 30 knots through the airspace and that height 15 feet so it was it was a tremendously hard impact even though i landed feet first i then thrust forward i smashed my face on the uh on the sharp florida razor grass below and i remember my right shoulder was still on fire so i aggressively had to pat it out and my right scalp i could sense it was still on fire so i patted it out the aircraft carried on on a very low and shallow traject trajectory without me and i watched her crash land there was this ugly crumpling crashing noise and extremely loud and and very scary and all of a sudden boom an almighty explosion i felt the shock of the explosion the energy come through me and back again and that sucked out all of the air that i had within the lung and the heat and the inferno was indescribable it was intense and it was at that moment when the pain hit me for the very first time and the only way i can describe that it was like a tsunami of pain that washed over me from head to toe every uh aspect of of nerve and sinew was struck by this pain and i i just cannot describe the intensity of that i had a facial fracture so i inadvertently ruptured my my uh my nose bone i had bilateral super orbital eye socket fractures on both sides from the impact also the force from the jump and the landing uh traveled through my torso area little did i realize that i'd um ruptured my large intestine so the colon and it also lacerated my liver internally which was now hemorrhaging and bleeding very profusely internally i was 63 percent third degree burns and that came to light uh later on with the um the medical diagnosis i'm starting to grow colder and weaker with every second that was passing so i then decided that um it wasn't going to be long that i didn't have long uh to go to to survive here so i then took my shoes and socks off i'm not even sure what the reason for that was i just figured um in my rationale that this was clearly one journey that i didn't need my shoes and socks for typical soldier you know i wanted that order right to the very end and i lay the shoes and socks on the right hand side and i just put them neatly by the side of me and i held on and i don't know how i did it all i can suggest is that i was a young man at the time you know i was just turned 32 years of age and i was as fit as a butcher's dog by virtue of what i did for a living uh you know with the forces and i kept myself in in great shape and so i i guess i had that fighting edge but i still didn't have long and i waited and and then i heard the siren so i was like and then the truth is um i don't remember anything for for realistically the next six months of my life the doctors in orlando gave me about five percent probability of survival which is extremely slim odds even though they placed me in drug induced coma i was in the fight of my life i mean this was jamie hull you know world war iii to give you an indication um thankfully because of the insurance that i was backed up by um the bill in america came to some 2.6 million us dollars and that was only for around about four month period i had 62 operations under general anaesthetic with a multitude of different surgeons for all kinds of different reconstructive work following the burns and to get me back on track to get me back to a semblance of health and normality and indeed i had many years of work both physically and mentally in order to accept and in order to rehabilitate myself it was very important for me to get back in the air somehow and to fulfill that ambition all over again and to uh to keep going i did fortunately uh um win a scholarship to learn to fly a hot air balloon and i did my training in italy it gave me that real sen that sense of freedom admittedly you know what i do with the balloon from time to time is a lot more sedate but then i guess the new version of jamie hull is a lot more sedate you know i'm not that high-speed guy that i once was and so it's probably quite fitting really you

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Length: 11min 30sec (690 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 09 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/FL060]

https://app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/ReportGeneratorFile.ashx?EventID=20071005X01520&AKey=1&RType=HTML&IType=FA

Here's the NTSB report from the crash.

Highlights include: 1) No signs of cockpit fire 2) No signs pilot evacuated prior to landing.

[u/1leggeddog]

This man exudes pure british-ness to an extreme level.

What a bad-ass.

[u/IamAlso_u_grahvity]

“Fit as a butcher’s dog...”

[u/Blasphemy4kidz]

I was really hoping to understand WHY the plane suddenly caught fire.

[u/firefly416]

Also, don't get run over by a firetruck that is running around your crashed plane looking for victims

[u/LostinConsciousness]

Damn that was incredibly inspiring! Just goes to show how much survival can come down to willpower in certain cases. I would’ve been done for 100%

[u/devinecreative]

What's amazing is it seems his body produced so much adrenaline fighting to land/crash the plane ignoring all the pain from burning, that when he was finally resting putting his shoes to the side, the pain washed over him... wow how intense that would be been.

[u/nyc_ifyouare]

This is one of the best told stories I have had the pleasure of hearing in a long time.

[u/IRageAlot]

Feel like he turned into Maverick when he did the impression of the American flight trainer