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[ Sirens wailing ]
We've got some kind of altercation
that went on the flight -- some kind of fight.
Chairs were broken!
A shark shipment is not something that you see every day.
DAUGHTRY: Oh. Nice.
Time is a very important aspect of this shipment.
Once you seal the tank, the clock's ticking.
CRAVEN: Aviation hero Barrington Irving
wants to take this supercar and race it against a jet.
That was [bleep] close, dude!
-- Captions by VITAC --
Closed Captions provided by Scripps Networks, LLC.
Beautiful M-I to the "A."
Today is a very special day for us
because we have this very fragile cargo.
A shark shipment is not something that you see every day.
Today's shipment that's going to Miami International Airport
consists of three sharks,
several different species of coral-reef fish,
and a variety of different invertebrates
that are going to a public aquarium
in Austria, in Vienna.
The majority of the animals that we ship around the world
are transported in airplanes.
If there is any veterinary care that's required,
our veterinarian provides care.
DR. MADER: It's interesting to transport animals like this
because sharks aren't frequent fliers.
They're meant to be in the ocean.
So when we're putting them in the airplane for a long time,
we want to make sure we do full physical exams on them.
We check their heart rates.
We take a blood sample on them and make sure that
all their internal organs are working properly.
And we have to make sure that we do everything we can
to ensure that they have a safe flight.
YOUNG: What we're doing now is netting the sharks out,
and we're gonna minimize the amount of time
that they're out of the water.
MAN: Coming your way. Coming your way.
DAUGHTRY: My way. My way.
Oh. Nice.
So, as soon as the shark's in the net,
we'll be running to the truck.
DAUGHTRY: Time is a very important aspect of this shipment,
and we have a very finite amount of time that these fish
can stay packed up in a sealed container.
[ Horn blares ]
This is Opa-locka Airport.
It's one of the four general-aviation airports
that is owned by Miami International Airport.
This airport is quite different.
It's filled with executive jets.
We have general-aviation aircraft with propellers,
helicopters, and even experimental aircraft.
Tomorrow we're gonna do a special event here
with an aviation legend.
Barrington Irving is like
the modern-day Charles Lindbergh.
He was the youngest pilot
and the first African-American-born pilot
to fly completely around the world solo.
I crossed the North Atlantic 12½ hours by myself.
I've flown through a sandstorm,
flown through monsoons in Asia.
PYATT: Barrington Irving has an organization
that helps underprivileged kids
and exposes them to the world of aviation and engineering.
IRVING: Many kids would not have this opportunity.
CRAVEN: Barrington's latest project
is to have kids build a supercar,
and he wants to take
this supercar that they're gonna build
and race it against a jet.
PYATT: Barrington's giving these kids an amazing opportunity,
and we want to support him all the way.
We want to make this a big success.
[ Thunder rumbles ]
IRVING: Hopefully, the weather gives me a chance to do this race.
It's just another challenge.
You know, you want this to happen for the kids,
prove a point, whip the wings off the jet.
CASTELLANOS: I'm the chief pilot of Executive Air Services.
We operate a fleet of over 12 airplanes.
I actually love flying the Learjet.
I feel like I just got two turbines strapped to my back.
You might think the jet has an advantage over the supercar,
but the car that Barrington is gonna be driving
is a car that goes 0 to 60 in 2.5 seconds.
They're both gonna take off together.
The car is gonna make a U-turn and come back down the taxiway.
The jet is also gonna make a U-turn,
but the faster the jet is going,
the wider his turn has to be.
And he now has to race this car
back down to the start line.
It's critical that both the car and the jet
do a test run tomorrow before the event.
Without a test run, there's too many unknowns,
and it's a big risk.
All right. He's accelerating right about 120 knots.
All right. So, let's see what he has.
CRAVEN: He starts to rotate.
He's got to quickly now
make that turn to the south.
That's a very steep bank at high speed.
Okay. Good entry.
CRAVEN: And now he's gonna make a really sharp bank.
All right, right there it looks like
he's at 90 degrees to the ground.
That's pretty steep for a passenger-type plane.
And now he's gonna line up on the runway.
It looks like he overshot.
Ah, he's way too wide,
way too wide on the turn.
That's what I want to see.
Too wide. He has to overcompensate.
So now he's gonna have to add in
another bank back this way to the right
in order to get it in.
[ Clapping ]
That's what I want.
The car is only gonna turn a couple-hundred-feet U-turn,
whereas he went about a mile.
CASTELLANOS: It was challenging. A lot more challenging than I thought.
If we do this tomorrow on the race, we're gonna lose.
[ Thunder rumbles ]
CRAVEN: Barrington's father and the kids
have been working very hard now to craft this car
and get it ready for this race.
And Barrington Irving hasn't even tested this car yet,
because of the weather.
IRVING: So, this front, as you can see,
it's sitting right over us.
Definitely not gonna get no practice run in today.
So, this weather system pretty much says it all.
[ Sirens wailing ]
We've got another flight coming in.
I'm not sure exactly where it's coming from,
and we've got some kind of altercation
that went on the flight -- some kind of fight.
Chairs were broken!
Which kind of leads me to believe
that it's a pretty big altercation.
The FBI is on board investigating.
So, Cooper, have they identified
which ones were the ones?
They identified the passenger.
So they're gonna hold them on the aircraft
and wait till everybody deplanes?
They're gonna hold them on the aircraft,
but they're waiting for them to come -- right.
Can you imagine being on an aircraft
and hearing an altercation?
They must have thought, "Oh, my gosh.
Is this a terrorist attack?"
Anything after, you know, post-9/11,
this is what we have to do.
And that's the reason all the agencies respond immediately
when we get the report from the cockpit crew.
Because you never what it's gonna be.
STOVER: What I'm learning is that a passenger
actually kicked the back seat of the passenger in front of him
and broke the seat, and then a fight ensued.
This is a huge no-no.
Man on the plane leans his chair back,
Right, right.
and the guy in the back, he pushes and kicks the chair.
And the fight starts.
And then the fight begins.
A fight on an aircraft is not good,
and it can be terrifying for the other passengers.
LANCI: A live shipment with three live sharks
and 3,000 tropical fish
is a very big deal for us.
If you've ever had a saltwater aquarium at home,
you understand how difficult it is and how important it is
to keep sea life healthy.
We are here to unload the fish
that has arrived from Marathon, Florida.
It's about 3,152 fish, and we have 3 bonnethead sharks.
We're gonna all float all of the different boxes,
and the difficult part is going to be now
to get the tank off the truck.
I've got a bunch of steps I got to make sure I do.
Otherwise, I could end up killing
one of the animals in transit.
Draining it down,
down to about 19 inches of water, for weight reasons,
before we seal the well and let the airline have it.
Salt water gets to be expensive at $5 a kilo.
We try and keep it as low as possible for the customer's sake
so they're not paying dead weight for water -- salt water.
That'll do it.
As I'm sealing this thing up,
I'm filling the air space between the water and the well
and the top of the well with pure oxygen,
changing the air from 21% -- that's everywhere --
to above 90% in the well.
Make sure that the forklift driver
doesn't stab the bottom of the pallet
and leak all the salt water out.
You got it! No, you're good.
Straight up.
Well, he didn't drive the forklift through it yet.
CHRISTMAN: We'll have it netted, strapped.
Once you seal the tank, the clock's ticking.
LANCI: With half a day of travel ahead and limited oxygen,
any delay or mishap
could endanger the lives of the sharks.
STOVER: There was a fight on an international flight,
where a passenger actually kicked the back
of another passenger's chair and broke the chair,
and then a fight ensued.
Airplane chairs are not like regular chairs.
They're attached to the floor.
So how you can break an airplane chair is beyond me.
When someone kicks the back of my chair when I'm flying,
it's so irritating.
And you don't want to say anything to the person behind you,
because now you're gonna start a problem.
Look like the FBI is bringing them out.
STOVER: The FBI and the police department interviewed both men
and decided not to press charges.
[ Indistinct conversation ]
Was he in the fight?
But they need to be escorted out of the airport
to make sure the fight does not continue.
So, we've got the kickee and the kicker.
When the gentleman kicked your chair...
The plane take off.
Right.
So I sit down.
[ Gasps ]
You were wise enough to stay away from him.
[ Chuckles ] I believe in peace.
Me too.
Yeah.
He might have reacted, pushing the chair,
but the one who started everything was the other one.
ANTHONY: Bottom line --
We'll never know who instigated this fight,
but I'm just happy that everybody's safe
and it didn't escalate to something worse.
Listen, if I'm ever on an aircraft,
and you sit behind me, you better not push my seat up.
I will jack your seat up, okay?
[ Laughs ]
LANCI: I think he's just landed.
Yep. He's on the ground.
We have various types of perishable cargo
on board the flight tonight,
and the challenge is going to be
to ensure that we maintain the live sharks and tropical fish
at a warm temperature.
We also have flowers on board
that require a cool temperature setting.
Okay. Wait till we tell the crew
what we have going on board today.
You're traveling today with 3,000 fish
and three sharks.
No.
Okay.
Thank you.
Have a safe flight.
Thank you very much.
And the tank is going up right now with the sharks in it.
[ Beeping ]
It's gonna be up to the crew now
to get our little friends there on time.
Fuel's already on board.
The captain has all his paperwork.
And she should be going here in just a minute.
I want to know how many pallets it is,
because if it's too many pallets and we have to off-load,
then we're gonna have a delay.
Then we're gonna have a delay. Yeah.
These sharks and over 3,000 tropical fish
have an 8-hour flight to Europe
and then a 10-hour truck ride to Vienna, Austria.
With limited oxygen, a delay at this point is unacceptable.
LANCI: We have a shipment of live sharks and tropical fish
going to Europe,
and we've just been informed
that the flight is on hold by CBP.
The sharks have over 48 hours of oxygen.
However, we don't know what kind of delays we'll experience
once they get to Amsterdam.
Then they have a 10-hour truck ride to Vienna.
So every second counts.
LANCI: I have a little issue --
Customs wanted to see some of the paperwork.
So he's gonna run the documents over right now,
and he's really running [Chuckling] the documents over.
With limited oxygen, a delay at this point is unacceptable.
He's taking an awful long time.
Did you let them know
we have some live cargo going on board?
Because we really need them to expedite this
as quickly as possible.
Okay. So, then we don't have to off-load the cargo.
Mnh-mnh.
We're clear to go. Good job.
Definitely never a dull moment.
Never the same thing twice.
PYATT: It's the day of the race,
and the score is, the jet has had one test run,
and Barrington has had none.
Barrington Irving challenged his students to build a supercar,
and now he's going to race it against a jet.
STOVER: It's a high-profile event.
We've got to make sure that we're screening everything,
including the ice-cream truck.
Everything checked out okay, so we're good to go --
no explosives.
You're airport is nice and clean.
Nice outfit.
Thank you.
I am a big admirer of Barrington Irving.
He is the man that makes the impossible the inevitable.
[ Applause ]
The airport runways are closed right now.
That will help us. The clock's ticking.
IRVING: I'm just so proud of all the students.
Let's go beat this jet. Enough said.
Let's go beat this jet.
[ Cheers and applause ]
It's like being right before a boxing match.
You're looking at your opponent.
And good luck, brother.
Good luck.
Once again, take care, man.
Safe flight, man.
We're gonna pretty much just have at it in the ring.
The ring is the sky, of course.
MAN: Are you ready?!
MAN #2: All right. This is it.
Let's do this.
CRAVEN: Children as young as 8 years old
and upwards of 18 years old
have built this car.
And now Barrington Irving,
the pilot that flew a plane around the world solo,
is gonna pilot the racecar.
[ Engine sputtering ]
PYATT: We're moments away from starting the race.
[ Horn honks ]
And Barrington's car overheats.
Go!
[ Sighs ]
So stupid, man!
Take a loop!
That's why we're trying to say, "Let's go!
Let's go! Let's go!"
We just need to get the engine going,
but it's too hot.
IRVING: Well, we overheated.
It took way too long to get to the runway,
and we were behind the jet, so it's just heating up.
Two minutes, we got to be ready to go.
GARY: Holdout over the water.
There's another DC-3 in your area.
We got a couple aircraft we got to get on the ground.
The airfield is closed due to activity on the airfield.
The airport manager said we can go ahead
and let the aircraft holding land.
Okay.
Zero-Tango-187, you can land long, if you'd like, there.
The jet will be out of your way.
Set you at 9:19. Have a great flight.
Contact Miami departure. We'll see you.
PYATT: Barrington's motto has been to persevere
no matter what the adversity.
The car has broken down.
So, we find the pace car, and we bring this car out there.
They're bringing an even faster car -- 670-horsepower car --
100 horsepower more than what Barrington's car had.
And now I'm starting to worry.
I see it coming.
Take a deep breath. Start the engines up.
MAN: 539-Bravo-Alpha, you are cleared for takeoff.
The race can start.
My money is on the 'Vette, Gary.
I don't know. I got the jet.
It depends on how he turns.
Oh.
PYATT: So, believe it or not, this race is happening.
MAN: 10...9...
8...7...
6...5...4...
3...
3...
2...
2...
1!
[ Airplane engine accelerating ]
[ Crowd cheering ]
CRAVEN: This is a huge opportunity
for the two pilots in the Learjet
to go up against aviation hero
and world-record holder Barrington Irving.
They're both gonna take off together.
The car is gonna make a U-turn,
and the jet is also gonna make a U-turn
and race back down to the start line.
[ Indistinct shouting ]
I still got the car.
Yep.
It depends on how tight that turn is.
PYATT: So, the car and the plane
turn back for the race to the finish line,
and at this point, it's anyone's guess who's gonna win.
MAN: Oh, my God!
MAN #2: Yeah!
[ Engine revving ]
[ Crowd cheering ]
MAN #3: Whoo!
[ Engine revving ]
MAN #4: Get him!
MAN #5: Oh, yeah!
Beautiful!
I think the jet won.
Oh, man.
[ Cheers and applause ]
We...
We beat him.
That was [bleep] close, dude.
That was close.
We beat him.
I didn't think you were gonna take him.
CASTELLANOS: My hands are shaking from the adrenaline.
Dude. [ Laughs ]
I just want to get off the plane at this point.
[ Breathes deeply ]
All right. Let me just chill out.
In the end, the jet pulled it off
and was the undisputed winner.
CASTELLANOS: That was nuts!
MAN: That was awesome!
Got this one.
Yeah.
MAN: ...all action, ladies and gentlemen,
supercar versus the jet --
Captain Barrington "Sky High" Irving!
[ Crowd cheering ]
Where's Barrington?
We found another car. We did the race.
You know, these kids are still winners.
Oh, Barrington!
Where are you, Barrington?
Barrington.
Great job flying.
Oh, dude, it was awesome.
Great job flying.
[ Applause ]
They won, but they only won because we thought we won,
and we slowed down.
[ Laughter ]
So...
I'm thinking rematch.
What do you think, everybody?
[ Crowd cheering ]
1, 2, 3...
[ All shout indistinctly ]