The pilot runs out of fuel over the Pacific on his way to Hawaii and uses an aircraft parachute to safely belly-flop in the ocean. To be fair, it’s a pretty good story without the narrator’s over-the-top attempts to make it sound like his fuel shortage came as a big surprise. YouTube commentators had fun razzing the BBC about the “split second decision” required to make the ditch. As Rob Anderson sniped: “Suddenly the plane runs out of fuel? In a split second decision? The coast guard was on scene filming the situation which means 20 to 30 minutes ago the pilot called mayday and the coast guard responded. He knew he was running out of fuel, knew he had a parachute that would have to be deployed, was in constant contact with the coast guard during the situation. There was no split decision, he was simply waiting for the engine to stall…lol. They make it sound like all this happened in (a) minute.”
