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On arrival at the headwaters, Dupre accidentally crashes the aircraft during the water landing, yet he and
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was not intended to be crashed, nor was a crash part of the original storyline. Trying a "glassy water landing", the pilot reduced his descent too late as the left float contacted, created drag and hooked, followed by the right float doing the same, whereupon all control was lost and the aircraft
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