Watch a Boeing 727 Passenger Jet Crash in the Mexico Desert…on Purpose
- Posted on April 30, 2012 at 12:08pm by
Erica Ritz
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The UK’s Channel 4 and the Discovery Channel have teamed up for a groundbreaking documentary on air safety, ironically crashing a Boeing 727 in the middle of a Mexican desert in the name of the cause.
According to the Daily Mail, the duo is investigating the effects of a “serious, but survivable” crash landing– though with its fuselage torn in two and twisted metal surrounding the crash site, it seems unlikely many could have survived.
Fortunately the jet, which can carry up to 170 people, was transporting only test dummies and internal cameras at the time of the crash– the adventurous pilot having ejected minutes before impact.
(Photo: Daily Mail)
(Photo: Daily Mail)
The event marks the first time in almost thirty years that a passenger plane has been crashed intentionally, the last having occurred in 1984 by NASA and the FAA. That time, a Boeing 720 was crashed in California’s Mojave Desert.
While the show simulating the 727 crash in Mexico isn’t due to air until later this year, one individual managed to capture amateur footage of the dramatic event, though the area was cordoned off in cooperation with Mexican authorities:
Sanjay Singhal, the executive producer of the upcoming documentary explained: “It has never been safer to fly, but we want to use this as an opportunity to provide scientific data that might help to improve passenger safety in those extremely rare cases when a catastrophic aircraft accident does occur.”
And the senior commissioning officer for Channel 4 remarked:
“This is a ground-breaking project, allowing a team of leading international scientists and crash investigators the first chance for a generation to study the crash of an entire passenger jet.
“The scientists are also looking at passenger safety, plus new ‘black box’ flight data recording technology.
“They have been hugely enthusiastic supporters of the project and couldn’t wait to get to the crash site. Despite long careers, none of them have seen a plane crash before their eyes like this before.
‘We hope that this documentary will provide valuable new scientific results as well as giving passengers vital information about how they can improve their own chances of surviving the extremely unlikely, but frightening, prospect of being in a serious plane crash.’
Channel 4 will be releasing the official footage, plus that of the internal cameras, when the documentary airs later this year.
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Comments (73)
holy ghostbuster
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 4:48pmWhy can’t amature videographers ever hold their cameras steady?
Report Post »Ducky 1
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 5:06pmMy thoughts exactly!!
Report Post »salvawhoray
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 5:34pmwhat about the jack-hole that walked in front?
Report Post »pops289
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 9:35pmWhy can’t commenters spell “amateur” correctly? (And who really cares, anyway?)
Report Post »Cruelnunusual
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 11:02pmAt least he didn’t say, “Oh, my God” every 3 seconds.
Report Post »MS-GlenNBC
Posted on May 1, 2012 at 2:06am1. Romney vs. Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IWDJEc92d38#!
2. Gingrich vs. Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kiaw0hgB-fg&sns=tw
I guess you weren’t really listening
Report Post »Boson Higgs
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 4:40pm‘And the senior commissioning officer for Channel 4 remarked:
“This is a ground-breaking project,” ‘
No, it was a PLANE-BREAKING project !
The ground did just fine.
Report Post »glidermom1
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 5:41pmTouche’
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 6:35pmLooks like the back of the plane is the best place to sit when a crash like this happens.
Report Post »blazy
Posted on May 1, 2012 at 12:32amWhen I was a young Engineer at Boeing, I asked a very senior Engineer where the best place to sit was. His reply, “In the back. You’ll end up on top.”
Report Post »jlcook
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 4:33pmWell, now we know the pilots wont make it…
Report Post »Desert Dog
Posted on May 1, 2012 at 11:23amSitting in the front give them a good incentive to land the plane safely!!!!!!
Report Post »Sumrknght
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 4:20pmI appreciate the Mexican government allowing the crash in their desert… but before they did that – couldn’t we have made several hundred round trips escorting illegals back to Mexico first? I hear things are so bad that Mexicans don’t even want to come hear anymore. Free Flight Back program may get things going!
Report Post »Natures_God
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 4:38pmShocking video
Ron Paul exposed dancing in his back yard from 15 years ago
A MUST SEE___this is funny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snWMDRVrh64
Report Post »Chakotay74656
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 7:33pmEven better, we should max out a fleet of 727′s with illegals and run experimental crash landings back in their homeland.
Report Post »In That Day
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 3:49pmFuselage
Looks like the landing gear should have been up.
The down gear in front stuck and broke up the front fuselage. The rear gear dug in and stopped the plane so quickly, it likely would have broken ribs and hurt the internals of remaining passengers at best or broken seats and belts free – at worst.
Or am I wrong?
Report Post »pavnvet
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 5:08pmNope, absolutely correct. Landing on sand, mud or water you would do it gear up. Nothing was proven here that could not have been simulated or has already been simulated unless, you are talking about what happens to a plane that is pretty much out of service in the US making a stupid TV show.
Report Post »Cynic-clinic
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 10:09pmActuall the entire episode is stupid. Planes have been used in controlled crashes since the 1950s to test aircraft structural integrity and passenger survivability. Goto the FAA website and search aircraft crash safety programs and don‘t waste our time with yesterday’s news.
Report Post »99oxymoron
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 3:47pmI’m pretty sure it would be more cost effective to make the plane fly by remote control than it would be to retro fit an ejection system for the pilot.
Report Post »It just feels like someone found some crash footage and threw together some words and made a story out of it.
I have a new headline for this lame story.
“A new sand relocation system was successfully tested today in Sandy Dune New Mexico.”
ENIGMA28724
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 3:11pmAnd how much did we have to pony up to cover the cost of this?
Report Post »SLARTIBARTFAST
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 3:43pmIt was “The UK’s Channel 4 and the Discovery Channel” who did this in Mexico. We wll pay for it through advertising dollars, but not likely as taxes. Promises to be some cool footage too. Might even buy some stuff from an advertiser!
Report Post »Cesium
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 3:02pmI’m sitting in the back
Report Post »SFsuper49er
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 9:30pmGood luck… I won’t be on one at all ! The only chance i have being hurt or killed by an airplane is if one hits me so i hope it’s big enough for me to see it coming first… It’s one excitement or luxury i can live without … Also i never get on a boat that goes out farther then i can swim.
Report Post »TrueColours
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 2:40pmJust another false flag practice run in the desert by the Feds. Coming to a town near you.
Report Post »FreedomsQB
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 2:27pmThe pilot ejected???No, how about jumped out the rear exit with a descent reduction device attached to his backside?
Report Post »MiddleAmerica2012
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 2:18pmMicheal J Fox must have been filming that.
Report Post »right-wing-waco
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 2:49pmOh, that’s baaaaad.
Report Post »PPMStudios
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 2:57pmLMAO!! Now that’s funny, I don’t care who you are!
Report Post »DeavonReye
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 2:10pmYou deliberately “test crash” a jet, . . . . and don‘t have the mental capacity to sit your camera on a freakin’ tripod??? Fail.
Report Post »DeavonReye
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 2:12pmOf course, it was taken by an amateur, so probably no tripod,. . . . but how hard is it to keep it still?
Report Post »R4M0N
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 3:23pmI can say with a fair degree of certainty that since he wasn’t allowed to be there, he was very far from the actual crash and zooming his camera pretty much to its max. Have you guys ever tried to keep a fully zoomed camera steady? Pretty much impossible without a tripod.
Report Post »cantstandlibs
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 6:06pmwe need an app that will process the video and remove shake…
Report Post »eagle2715
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 7:32pmOr Perhaps as the article says….
“While the show simulating the 727 crash in Mexico isn’t due to air until later this year, one individual managed to capture amateur footage of the dramatic event, though the area was cordoned off in cooperation with Mexican authorities:”
Report Post »Barbarian
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 2:07pmAm I the only one that sees this as a parable about the American economy under the B-Hussein-O administration?
Report Post »Left wing all mangled…
Right wing missing…
Pilot jumped ship…
Ships crashed…
Crash Test Dummies …
OperationNorthwoods
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 1:47pmActually the last time a passenger plane was deliberately crashed by the government was on 9/11/01.
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 1:57pmAbsolutely.
Report Post »Basharr
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 2:44pmPathetic, how about a bit of respect.
Report Post »Belchfire V-8
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 4:02pmGuess again, oh ye of little intellect.
Report Post »infortheride
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 1:33pmToo bad, not enough room for the Obalmer Czars
Report Post »OBERSHA
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 1:56pmThey said it was full of dummies, did they mean someone else?
Report Post »theninthplanet
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 1:31pm“While the show simulating the 727 crash in Mexico isn’t due to air until later this year, one individual managed to capture amateur footage of the dramatic event, though the area was cordoned off in cooperation with Mexican authorities:”
Report Post »With emphasis on AMATEUR.
MotoMofo
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 1:26pmSucks for 1st Class
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 1:38pmMore Leftist Liberal Lies
Our Earth has all the water we need. Nuclear energy will produce all the fresh water from sea water that we will ever need. Many Middle East nations are already distilling all the water they need from the sea. OHHH but remember the insane Liberals will fight to prevent you from building atomic power plants because they want children to die of thirst.
Report Post »signal_lost
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 1:49pmTeamarcheson… LOL!
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 1:24pmNext Mexicao will steal our secrets on building 727′s… Of course they will have to put it all back together again, unlike a drone who fell to earth unharmed??????????????????????????
Report Post »Mojoron
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 1:21pmThe camera work really sucks.
Report Post »Harry Assenback
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 1:19pmOne question…..Was it successful?
Report Post »Jackie Rogers, Jr.
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 1:10pmTest dummies = TSA?
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 1:04pmCOOL! I am amazed they do this considering how expensive they are.
Report Post »BubbaCoop
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 12:58pmAm I the only one wanting to know where the pilot went?
Report Post »Did he parachute out, or did they modify this plane to be controlled remotely?
vox_populi
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 1:05pm“Fortunately the jet, which can carry up to 170 people, was transporting only test dummies and internal cameras at the time of the crash– the adventurous pilot having ejected minutes before impact.”
Report Post »right-wing-waco
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 1:06pmI said that he bailed out.
Report Post »SpunkyJones
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 1:27pmread the entire article – A$S!
Report Post »trubluehawkfan
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 1:39pmPretty sure in this kind of test the aircraft would be remotely controlled.
Report Post »Cavallo
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 12:31pmI‘m surprised they don’t do this more often.
Report Post »nueces
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 1:36pmditto
Report Post »Teabunny
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 12:13pmPreping for rapture?(my gosh…they’re preppers! LOL) I guess they haven’t thought about the factor, where first the antichrist takes control…and suspends free air travel! marshall law, you know. the only jets in the air will be the evil, piloted by those who have traded their souls for success..so no planes falling from the sky…but thanks for wasting tax dollars. LOLOLOL
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