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CBS News A pilot credited with saving the lives of his 10 passengers after crashing off the east coast of Florida has revealed what happened in the minutes before going down. Father-of-three Ian Nixon, 43, said that in a quarter of a century of flying, he hadn’t seen anything like what happened to his Beechcraft King Air 300 on Tuesday morning during the 20-minute flight from the Bahamas’ Abaco Islands to Grand Bahama. The Air Force has since called the landing “pretty miraculous,” but Nixon said he was just trying to do the best he could. “Basically, lost my navigation, all radios,” he told CBS News . “Flying over 25 years, and I’ve never seen anything like that.” He added, “I did my best. I had a lot of stuff going on in the aircraft—just trying to get that under control.” “I wasn’t able to reach anybody on the radio for a while. I tried to call Freeport. I tried to call Miami radio,” he added. “I don’t know if they were hearing me, but I didn’t get a response.” He then revealed his first thought after landing. “Once I hit the water, my first thought was, ‘We didn’t die,’” he said. “That’s one of the things I remembered. We didn’t die.” Read it at CBS News Read more at The Daily Beast.
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