“And not if you know that the videographer claimed to turn the camera “back on” only AFTER the alarm went off when the video clearly shows the passengers videotaped when they’re acting like they haven’t got a care in the world.”
In the nightline video, he says he turned the camera on after the engine quit. In the same video the buzzer sounds about 10 seconds before the plane hits the water. The engine had been dead for awhile before that alarm went off.
Here is the video from GMA and again between alarm going off and impact is also about 10 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnLUVosInNQ
I suppose it is possible that when the engine failed there were other alarms that went off and the pilot turned them off as they would be quite distracting.
The alarm referred to a couple of times in this thread is the characteristic stall warning horn of virtually all aircraft. It may not be disabled or non-functioning at the beginning of any flight. Its lengthy intoning at the moments before the water landing (at that “non-spiraling” attitude) indicate the craft will sink those last few feet to the surface at the lowest possible airspeed. In other words, there he lived-up to the designation of being a good glider pilot.
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