He says his legs were so numb that on the way out, he fell down the plane's stairs onto the tarmac.
Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab is suspected of attempting to ignite explosives in his underwear to bring down the plane, which had 278 passengers and 11 crew members aboard.
It landed close to a remote runway at the airport, and its five runways would give flight controllers more options in bringing down a plane that was in trouble.
During the trial, prosecutors showed the jury an experiment which they said showed that a soft drink-size bottle filled with the kind of liquid explosives the men allegedly planned to use could have brought down a plane in mid-flight.
While no official cause of the crash has been named, sources have told CNN that 150 of the oxygen generators -- improperly packed and stowed in the DC-9's cargo hold -- are believed to have ignited the fire that brought down the plane.
He was on one of the ships, was shot by -- was strafed by the fire from the planes coming in, and yet still had the presence of mind to shoot down a plane, and won the Medal of Honor -- or was awarded the Medal of Honor for that.
Within minutes, the pilot had got the plane down to 11, 000 feet, where the passengers could begin to breath normally again.
Mr Chernov said the pilot had tried to pull the plane down six seconds after take-off, but could not avert the disaster.
An airline catering vehicle lowered his wheelchair from the plane down to the tarmac and the red carpet for the formal arrival.
Sgt Walsh eventually escaped by parachute but Russel had left it too late to bail out himself, and went down with his plane.
The pilot tried to bring his plane down on the water.
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"Once I got wings level I was still very concerned and still didn't at that point think I was going to be able to get the plane down, " he said.
The town of Bor, half an hour by plane down the Nile from Juba, was once a busy trading post but now feels on a different planet.
"If it had not been for the heroic actions of the passengers of United Flight 93 who forced the plane down over Pennsylvania, Congress's ability to function may have been severely disrupted, " he said.
Before Galileo began running balls down an inclined plane to measure changes in velocity, and before Descartes developed his coordinate system, the German Jesuit Christoph Clavius, designed the mathematics curriculum for the major universities of Europe.
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"Right about that time, we hit some really severe turbulence, and ... several people flew up and hit the ceiling of the plane and then were immediately slammed down to the floor of the plane, " first class passenger Jeff Hornback told KPLC.
It also helped seeing my videographer, Anthony Nielsen in a 2nd plane rolling upside down over the top of us to get a better angle filming our plane.
That a plane headed down the runway had only about a 60% chance of landing safely?
They also have parachutes in case they have to get out before the plane goes down.
The plane went down at 16:00 local time with the entire team on board.
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The plane roared down the tarmac, lifted off smoothly, and climbed sharply to three hundred feet.
The Sita Air plane came down minutes after take-off from Kathmandu, claiming the lives of 19 people.
There was effete, uneven applause in the cabin when the plane touched down on the runway in Sheremetyevo.
The plane came down in fields at Water Newton, near Sibson Airfield at about 14:15 BST on Friday.
The plane went down 12 miles (20km) from Shymkent aiport in what correspondents told KTK was very bad weather.
In the early morning hours of July 16, a U.S. military plane touched down in the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh.
The most famous case is missing airman Ron Arad, whose plane came down during a raid over Lebanon in 1986.
The plane took down all the utility wires on the street, which is in a rural residential area with many retirees.
But as the plane touched down, the last of the showers swept through, the clouds parted, and beautiful blue skies greeted Mrs.
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