After arriving before the emergency door, we did not urge Dondon to open the door from the inside. Rather, we waited silently for him to recover. From the real-time cameras, we saw Dondon slowly stand up. He seemed to have arrived inside some sort of machine, so he had yet to truly reach the inside of the cockpit.

The little fellow pushed at the tiny opening above him. Just like that, he pushed open the dashboard that had remained unused for decades. He climbed out of the dashboard and entered the cockpit.

Dondon stood atop the massive dashboard in the dark cockpit. Oddly, he couldn't see outside the window from within the cockpit. When he squeezed through the tube, his regular searchlights had been broken. Thus, he only had an emergency searchlight that could only illuminate a small area around him.

"Dondon, we're hitting the door. You can move toward the door following the noise," I said.

A series of thuds guided Dondon in the correct direction as he started heading toward the door. Shortly...