If statistics are to believed, air travel is among the safest modes of transport but increasing incidents of crashes have been coming to the fore in recent years.?
In one recent incident this week, two people have miraculously survived after their plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean.
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The duo, a man and a woman, have been rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard. Their BE-36 plane had to make an emergency landing in Half Moon Bay off the coast of Northern California. The Coast Guard issued a statement and confirmed that both the travellers were safe and out of danger.
The trauma of staring into the eyes of death was captured on camera by one of the friends of the duo, who was, incidentally, also flying with them in another BE-36 aircraft.
The aircraft belonged to pilot David Lesh who was flying with his friend Kayla, according to a report by CNN.?
In the video, one can see the aircraft falling from the skies but managing a successful landing in the water. The video also shows Lesh and Kayla standing on the wing of the aircraft. This happened moments? before the plane sunk completely.
The pair tread water until help could arrive and they could be rescued.
¡°I would guess we probably didn¡¯t have much more than maybe a minute or two from the time, you know, I figured maybe something was wrong until we hit the water,¡± Lesh told CNN.
They had originally planned to fly over the Golden Gate Bridge and fly around the Bay Area but that was never to be due to the Beechcraft Bonanza¡¯s engine failure.