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Speaker 1: According to the FAA, a twin engine aircraft crash into

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the Atlantic Ocean just after noon, roughly fifty miles east

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of Vero Beach. Shortly after taking off. The pilot declared

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an emergency with air traffic Control. Soon after communication was lost.

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Speaker 2: This is the Miracle Files.

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Speaker 3: I'm Emily Jones.

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Speaker 4: And I'm Holly Worthington. Sometimes the news and social media

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can feel pretty dark.

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Speaker 5: And true crime can leave you afraid to even crawl

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into bed. But we're here to prove that there are

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more miracles than murders.

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Speaker 4: In these special Miracles in the News episodes, we dig

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through the headlines.

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Speaker 5: For you because miracles still happen and God is still good.

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Speaker 4: Welcome back to Miracles in the News. Okay, Emily, I

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want you to imagine your boarding a plane for what

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should be probably one of the least memorable flights that

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you've taken. Like you're in the Bahamas. You're just going

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from island to island, across continents. It's beautiful outside. You

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throw your bag under the seat, maybe glance out the window,

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maybe think about what you're going to do when you land.

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Absolutely nothing about this feels dangerous or like it's a

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day that could turn ugly.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, I already know where this is headed.

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Speaker 5: And I'm supposed to fly in a few days, so

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maybe it's coming to visit me.

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Speaker 2: Maybe not the best time, Okay, go on.

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Speaker 4: Well, honestly, most flights are safe. It's one of the

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safest ways to travel.

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Speaker 3: They say, doesn't feel like it.

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Speaker 4: I know. It is a little scary, and unfortunately for

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eleven people that were on a flight in the Bahamas,

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things went very wrong and out of nowhere, the airplane

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starts malfunctioning. The pilot is losing critical systems, including the engines.

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Speaker 1: Behavian officials say the plane took off from Marsh Harbor

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in the Bahamas headed to Freeport, what's typically a thirty

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minute flight, but shortly after taking off, the pilot declared

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an emergency with air traffic Control. Soon after communication was.

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Speaker 6: Lost, authority say the twin engine turboprop experienced engine failure.

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, terrifying.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. So here's the plane's pilot, forty three year old

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Nicks and describing what happened.

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Speaker 7: I did my best.

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Speaker 3: I had a lot of stuff going on in the aircraft.

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Speaker 7: I was trying to get that under control.

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Speaker 4: Basically Losso on my obligation, all radios over twenty five years,

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and I've never seen anything like that.

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Speaker 5: What would you do? I swear I have pictured this

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exact moment in my head every time I fly. I'm

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like on the edge of my seat waiting for this

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to happen, Like, Okayhapules is taking us down.

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Speaker 4: We got to work on your faith a little bit. Girl.

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Speaker 2: I know, plane is scary.

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Speaker 4: I don't know why, but yeah, I think we've all

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had that thought a time or two.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but this is.

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Speaker 4: No longer just a thought for these people. At this point,

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both engines have completely failed. They're fifty to eighty miles offshore,

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so all that is beneath the plane is open ocean,

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which immediately changes the situation because there's nowhere to land,

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no airports or roads or open fields, just ocean. And

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Nixon has to make an onboard announcement that nobody on

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the plane wants to hear. They're going to have to

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land in the water. And I keep thinking about those

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final moments leading up to impact, because, unlike so many emergencies,

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like everybody on board understands what's about to happen. They

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know they're going to crash. It would be so terrifying,

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I know. And they also know that they're far from shore,

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and they know that even if they survive hitting the water,

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that only creates a whole other problem.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they're going to be out in the middle of

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the ocean. Exactly terrifying.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. So, Olympia Auten is with her thirty year old

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niece and her two young adult sons on that flight,

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and all she has time to do is brace for

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imped and this is what she says happens next.

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Speaker 6: The forty eight year old was traveling on a small

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plane between Islands and the Bahamas Tuesday when they meet

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a crash landing in the ocean.

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Speaker 7: And it came down that when it hit it boom.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, boom boom.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: That plane hits the water hard. But despite being terrified,

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pilot Ian Nixon makes an incredibly difficult landing as smoothly

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as humanly possible, and upon landing, water starts pouring into

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the cabin and Ian knows he needs to act fast.

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Once he hit the water, I think my first sort

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was he didn't die, he didn't die, Let's get.

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Speaker 3: Out, Let's get out.

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Speaker 5: So scary, It's like right from one emergency onto the

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next yep.

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Speaker 4: And if you can imagine the chaos in those seconds.

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There's impact, there's confusion, there's water rushing in, there's panic,

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and Olympia can't get her seatbelt unbuckled. I still was

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in the plane because I was trapped, she says.

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Speaker 6: Her son helped her get unbuckled. Then, she says, she

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jumped in the water, not knowing how to swim. She

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flapped her feet until her family pulled her onto a

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life raft, where she and the other passengers watched as

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the plane went under.

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, you can't swim, Like what else? Right?

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Speaker 4: And can you imagine watching that plane just sink into

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the ocean.

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Speaker 3: That would be shocking.

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Speaker 4: Mind blowing. But somehow, against the odds, all eleven people

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survived the crash itself, which is definitely miracle number one, right, Yeah.

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And then on top of that, Ian Nixon is able

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to get everyone out of the sinking plane and onto

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a small life raft. But this is only the beginning,

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because now these people are floating out in the middle

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of the Atlantic on a little round yellow life raft

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with no communication, Oh my gosh, like.

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Speaker 2: No sunes, no radios.

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Speaker 4: Nothing, no, And they have no idea if anyone's even

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heard the pilot's distress calls. Because the radios have gone

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out before they even crash, and the waves are starting

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to rock. They're in rough water, a storm is brewing.

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These people have absolutely no guarantee that anyone is going

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to find them. And I think sometimes movies have given

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us unrealistic expectations about search and rescue, because we imagine

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somebody immediately notices a missing aircraft and helicopters magically a

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pair overhead. But the Atlantic Ocean is enormous and finding

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a small life raft in open water is incredibly difficult.

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Speaker 2: It reminds me of last week's episode.

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Speaker 5: We talked a lot about how hard it is to

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find someone in the water. Yeah, the ocean is so massive.

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I mean, I'm sure these people are in for a

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long wait. Yeah, exactly. This ordeal is far from over. Unfortunately.

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Speaker 4: In fact, five hours pass and the weather keeps getting worse.

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The swells keep getting bigger, thunderstorms are moving in, threatening

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to create like the perfect conditions for a tragedy. The

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swells are just getting bigger and bigger, and meanwhile the

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raft is just drifting further and further away. From where

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anyone expects him to be. And this is where you

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really see God's hand in this story, because the nine

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hundred and twentieth Rescuing of the US Air Force Reserve,

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an elite unit, is already airborne on a training mission,

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so when they get the call, they are immediately redirected.

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Speaker 8: What's even more incredible here is that the nine hundred

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and twentieth Rescuing is strained specifically in search and rescue.

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This is an elite unit and they just happen to

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be training fifteen minutes from where the crash landing took place.

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Speaker 5: Wow, fifteen minutes and this massive ocean. It's crazy they

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were so close by, it really is. But wait, so

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you said that they had been out in the water

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for five hours. So if this Air Force crew is

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only fifteen minutes away, yeah, how do you explain that?

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Speaker 4: Okay, so I had the same question. And geographically they're

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only fifteen minutes away, but that doesn't mean that they

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know where to look. And even though they have a

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general idea, they're still trying to find a small yellow raft,

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probably the size of a dining room table, across thousands

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of miles of open ocean.

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Speaker 5: So nearby doesn't necessarily mean easy to find right not

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even hard to find.

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Speaker 4: But having the air force nearby does mean that they

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can start searching right away.

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Speaker 6: Gotcha on the water, Everyone quickly got onto a life raft.

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The plane sank as they waded through rough weather, not

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knowing if help was on the way.

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Speaker 4: During all of this, Olympia is praying for rescue for hours.

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She's just praying and pleading with God, and even though

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she has no idea that anyone is looking for them,

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she's trying to stay calm and have faith. And then

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the pilot ian makes a bold and faithful declaration. He

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says to everyone on the raft, within ten minutes, someone

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will come for us. And then a few minutes later,

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one of the passengers says, hold on, did you hear something.

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Everyone looks up, and finally they see a helicopter in

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the distance, and then at last it stops and is

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hovering overhead, and everyone is just overwhelmed with gratitude.

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Speaker 8: Oh, when I see the helicopter, that's when I release.

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Speaker 4: I say, oh, thank you.

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Speaker 7: Jesus says, we get saved.

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Speaker 4: He gets saved.

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Speaker 7: We get see it.

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Speaker 2: I would be doing that too. I would be saying

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thank you Jesus.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I'm sure that was just such a.

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Speaker 4: Relief just to see now I know, and it's amazing

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that they've been found. But finding everyone is only half

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the battle now, because now the helicopter has to get

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everyone out of the water. They immediately drop extra survival

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equipment and rafts and begin pulling survivors out of the ocean.

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Speaker 7: Once we found there's eleven, our media concern was do

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we have the weight in space take eleven people on board?

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Speaker 3: Interesting?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And because the water is so rough, it's taking

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them longer than they expected. And as they're pulling people

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out of the water, the helicopter fuel system begins sounding

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an alarm. It needs to leave now.

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Speaker 6: The Coastguard had five minutes left of fuel, faced with

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leaving passengers if they couldn't get them all.

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so the helicopter has already spent ninety minutes hoisting

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people from the water. And to be clear, what they

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mean by five minutes left of fuel is that they've

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reached what is referred to as bingo fuel, which means

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that if they don't leave within five minutes, they will

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not have enough fuel to get back to land, and

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not only that, but the weather is getting way worse.

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And again, this is an elite unit and fortunately they

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specialize in this type of difficult rescue, and these are

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heroes who are not about to give up.

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Speaker 7: The crew air dropping survival kits and executing this challenging

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operation with limited fuel, hoisting eleven people to safety, completing

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the rescue with only five minutes of fuel left before

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needing to return to Florida.

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Speaker 2: Wow, so they got everyone on board.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, she's truly miraculous.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they get everybody. I don't know how the helicopter

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did it. Sorry if you don't get that joke language,

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go check out our social media. But yeah, Once the

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last survivors hoisted onto the helicopter, they fly back to Florida,

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where emergency crews are waiting. Everyone from the plane crash

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is taken to medical facilities where they're checked out and amazingly,

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none of their injuries are life threatening.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 5: I'm sure that they will need some time to heal

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emotionally after such a traumatic experience, but absolutely, But I'm

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sure they're also all so grateful.

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Speaker 4: So back on land, so grateful, and after this incredible rescue,

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several people acknowledge that this has to be a miracle

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from God. Even members of the elite units say it.

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So here's one of the air force pilots talking about it.

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Speaker 6: I've not known anyone to survive ditching in the ocean

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from what I've seen.

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Speaker 4: I mean, for all those people to survive is pretty miraculous.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know the stats on ditching, but

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there's like a lot of things in the story that

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had to go right, not just.

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Speaker 4: That, Yeah, exactly what I thought. Yeah, So okay, Emily,

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here's where the story takes a really bizarre term though,

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you're not going to see this one coming. But after

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the rescue, investigators eventually began looking into why the plane

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crashed and who the survivors were from the plane, and

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they discover something shocking. Apparently one of the survivors is

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now accused of participating in a large drug trafficking conspiracy.

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are still part of an ongoing investigation, but according to reporting,

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this wasn't small scale trafficking either. Court documents alleged connections

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to large cocaine shipments moving through the Bahamas. Again, what

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do I know, Okay, stick with me here. They continue

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this investigation and reportedly discover something else, a bag containing

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approximately thirty thousand dollars in Bahamian currency.

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Speaker 5: Okay, how did they find a bag if the plane

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sank in the ocean.

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Speaker 4: Well, that's a good question.

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Speaker 3: I had the same question.

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Speaker 4: And according to reports, a fifty eight year old man

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named Jonathan Eric Gardner was found with three phones and

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a crossbody bag that contained the money, and the complaint

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said the money was labeled with the handwritten name of

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a Bahamian politician who was allegedly connected to a planned

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Bahamas bound shipment in November twenty twenty four involving nine

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hundred to one thousand kilograms of cocaine from Columbia.

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Speaker 3: Oh you're in trouble now. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So the part about the politician was later redacted from

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public record because it doesn't necessarily prove the politician was

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guilty of anything. Okay, But now investigators start looking into

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that politician, other political leaders start demanding answers, questions start

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being asked publicly, and it looks like, beyond the innocent

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lives that were saved like Olympia Aughton and her family,

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a large drug trafficking ring may have been shut down

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by this plane crash.

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Speaker 5: Wow, Okay, you are right. I did not see that coming.

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This was major plot twist, I.

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Speaker 4: Know the same. When I found that out, I was

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like what, I was like, are we in the same story? Yeah?

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And I know the plane crash guys right? And I

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keep coming back to thought over and over again, like,

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if this plane doesn't crash, does any of this happen?

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Speaker 3: Interesting? Okay?

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Speaker 4: I think sometimes when we talk about miracles, we think

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of them as just like a rescue or a survival. Yeah,

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but as we've learned, miracles can be very nuanced.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Obviously we should be careful not to claim certainty where

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we don't have it.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 4: This is all under investigation still, but it is difficult

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not to look at this story and wonder if there

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aren't two miracles it took place. One miracle kept eleven

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people alive, and another miracle may have saved even more

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lives of the people who would have taken those tracks.

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Speaker 3: Interesting.

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Speaker 2: God works in mysterious ways.

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Speaker 4: He does, And I am certain Olympia's prayers were heard

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and the prayers of the.

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Speaker 3: Other passengers on that plane. Yeah, what a miracle. Yeah,

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so interesting.

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Speaker 4: Well, thanks everyone for joining us today. Our God is

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a god of miracles and hopefully listening to this podcast

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Speaker 3: That's a miracle. Amen.

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