- [Narrator] The captain pulls up the nose - [Pilot] Duck! (air whooshing) - [Narrator] Captain Kevin Stables is preparing to pilot Emery Worldwide flight 17. His first officer is George Land. They're hauling freight across the country aboard a 30-year-old DC-8 cargo plane. - Hi, there, is that the load plan? - [John] Just before they're finished up loading the last couple of containers they would give us a list of all the freight containers and how much it weighed and what position on the airplane it was. (suspenseful music) - There you go, boss. Then we'd take that information and we would calculate the weight and balance on the airplane and make sure that it was all correct. (plane engine revving) - [Kevin] Air speed's alive. - [George] Alive here. (air whooshing) - 80 knots. - 80 knots. Elevator checks. - [Narrator] Just another routine takeoff - [Kevin] V1. (suspenseful music) Rotate. - [Narrator] But as the nose wheel leaves the ground the DC-8 pitches upward ...