Hall of Fame--Gillispie - A Survivor

"I credit my success to very good training, and then to discipline of procedure," he adds. "For example, I always went through the drill of what to do in a water landing with the passengers before we took off. This proved to be a deciding factor [no passengers were injured]. We landed about a minute after the engine failed, but the door was wedged open and all the passengers had their life jackets on before the plane hit the water."