Within minutes he said he was up to his knees in water while still inside the plane.

几分钟之后，他就跪在水里了，但人还在飞机里。

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On August 10th Mr Putin got behind the controls of a plane dropping 12 tonnes of water on two fires.

8月10日，普京被拍到在一架飞机控制台后，这架飞机正向两片大火洒下重12顿的水。

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Investigators will now try to determine where the two-engine plane hit the water, and where its wreckage is on the sea bed.

调查人员现在将试图确定这架双引擎飞机坠海的位置，以及飞机残骸在海底的位置。

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As state television cameras chronicled his exploits for the Tuesday evening news, he co-piloted an amphibious firefighting plane, taking on water from a river and dumping it on burning fires in the Ryazan Region.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

As Robbins, 44, and his 15-man crew approach the school--identified earlier by spotter plane--they lower two 40-foot boats into the water.

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Most incredible of all is the size of the Anzani engine - just 25 horsepower, barely enough oomph to carry even a tiny plane across the water.

BBC: The other pilot

By using lightweight aerospace materials like carbon fiber, which has the strength of steel but weighs one-fifth as much, naval architects can design boats that plane across the surface of the water instead of plowing through it.

FORBES: Mine's Lighter