'We didn't die': Pilot recounts crash landing in Atlantic with 10 aboard

"Once I hit the water, my first thought was: 'We didn't die.'"

— Ian Nixon , Other

"Everybody was rejoicing to know that we get saved because we thought we were going to die."

— Olympia Outten , Other

"You could tell just by looking at them that they were in distress - physically, mentally and emotionally."

— Rory Whipple , Other

"And, from what I've seen, I mean, for all those people to survive is pretty miraculous."

— Elizabeth Piowaty , Other

"And from what I’ve seen, for all those people to survive is pretty miraculous, and then get in the raft all together."

— Elizabeth Piowaty , Other

"That moment was 'bingo time', a colloquial military term for the 'hard time that we need to leave the scene and go back because we’re low on gas'."

— Matt Johnson , Activist

"They were in distress, physically, mentally, emotionally after so long in the ocean, unaware of whether there was any possibility of a rescue."

— Rory Whipple , Other

"I was trapped, I had my seatbelt on, my son was saying 'Mummy, go' we had to get out."

— Olympia Outten , Other

"Once I hit the water, my first thought was, 'We didn't die.'"

— Ian Nixon , Other

"Everybody was rejoicing to know that we get saved because we thought we were going to die."

— Olympia Outten , Other

"I have not known anyone to survive a ditching in the ocean."

— Maj Elizabeth Piowaty , Other

"Basically, lost my navigation, all radios, flying over 25 years, and I’ve never seen anything like that."

— Ian Nixon , Other

"Once I hit the water, my first thought was, ‘We didn’t die.’"

— Ian Nixon , Other

"While on the raft, I said, ‘In the next 10 minutes a plane is going to come.’"

— Ian Nixon , Other

"Once I hit the water, my first thought was, ‘We didn’t die.’"

— Ian Nixon , Other