A jaw-dropping video has recently emerged, revealing what’s it like to see a small aircraft plunging down into an ocean from above.
As the small plane crashes into water, survivors can be seen drifting across the ocean.
The captain and his passenger were real lively people. They kept filming themselves while treading across the ocean, without minding the continuous jelly fish stings.
The amazing video was caught on camera by Owen Leipelt while he was flying his light aircraft just off the coast of California.
In the event, Owen was filming his friend flying a small Beechcraft Bonanza as it fell right into the ocean near the Half Moon Bay.
Owen alerted Air Traffic Control about the accident and its location. He kept circling over the crash site, filming the ‘rescue’ operation being carried out by the victims on their own.
Down below in the water, captain of the crashed plane, David Lesh, 34, can be seen shooting the moment on camera.
Lesh and his passenger had to wait a hefty 40 minutes before help arrived, and 40 minutes in those waters is easier said than done.
In a statement released to KRON4 and NBC, Lesh said: “I was probably 3,400 feet, did everything I could. I couldn’t get the motor running and put it into the Pacific.
“We skipped along the water for a few hundred feet and the impact was very minimal, it was not hard at all and we immediately opened the door and got out onto the wing. we took a quick inventory of what was in the plane.
“I grabbed my cell phone and the keys to the car. I knew we had about 20 or 30 seconds before it sunk.”
Pictures of the scene show the light aircraft slowly sinking to the bottom of the ocean.
The lively surviving duo laughed and took selfies as if they were enjoying the moment, before finally being rescued by a helicopter.
Lesh, who also owns a clothing company, added: “It got cold pretty quickly. After about 20 minutes or so, I started to freeze up pretty good. There was jellyfish everywhere.
“There was sunfish. There was whales breaching around us. We just waited as long as we could on the wing. The plane went down, we got into the water.
“Jellyfish were stinging us the entire time we were in there.”
Soon after he bought the plane, Lesh said in a social media post: “After 9 years of unforgettable flying adventures around the US, Central America and the Caribbean, I’m putting my Lance up for sale.
“It’s time for someone else to enjoy it. I’ve got a new plane on the way, one that is faster and more capable, one that will facilitate my freedom and lust for punching holes in the sky.”
Lesh has got quite a following on social media, having 38,000 Instagram fans who love his flying adventures.
On April Fools Day, he pulled a prank on his followers, writing that his aircraft had crashed. Looks like, fate followed him and doomed him in deed.
Thankfully, no one sustained any serious injury in the whole incident.
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