CBS News Special Report - 2001-04-12
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[0:00] he can say 100 and the pilot of that
[0:02] plane Captain Tom penardo talked on the
[0:05] flight with the pilot of the US
[0:06] reconnaissance plane the reconnaissance
[0:08] plane about what happened after the
[0:10] midair Collision that started the 11-day
[0:12] stalemate with China here is what
[0:15] Bernardo had say this
[0:16] morning they probably lost anywhere uh
[0:19] from 8 to 10,000 ft in altitude coming
[0:22] down recovering during that period of
[0:24] time they thought about
[0:27] uh jumping off the airplane preparing
[0:30] for uh evacuating the airplane then they
[0:34] came they got the airplane under control
[0:36] and thought about ditching and then the
[0:39] next uh point they got the airplane
[0:41] completely under control realized that
[0:43] there was an air strip there and that's
[0:45] where they directed the airplane now
[0:48] once the crew landed in China access to
[0:50] them was restricted they in effect
[0:51] became prisoners and an important
[0:54] question is hung in the air did the crew
[0:56] have time to significantly destroy
[0:59] information they had been Gathering and
[1:00] for that matter other information and
[1:03] parts of the aircraft that might be
[1:05] helpful to the Chinese military US
[1:07] military debriefers joined the crew on
[1:09] the flight from Guam to Hawaii and CBS
[1:12] News National Security correspondent
[1:13] David Martin at the Pentagon has heard
[1:15] some of what the debriefers are learning
[1:17] David well this was one of the first
[1:20] questions they asked the crew once the
[1:21] plane took off from hinan and this time
[1:24] it was Intelligence Specialists who
[1:26] wanted to know in detail if the crew had
[1:29] been able to accomplish their emergency
[1:31] dest