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Disasterous Boeing 707 crash
« on: January 19, 2009, 03:07:06 PM »
It was a Controlled Imapact demonstration by Dryden Flight Research Center in 1984.
I don't know how could they tested it!


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Re: Disasterous Boeing 707 crash
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2009, 06:56:32 PM »
are you sure that was a B707? looked like a Airbus to me, and one that got hijacked a few years ago that the pilot "ditched" 
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Re: Disasterous Boeing 707 crash
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2009, 08:57:03 PM »
Yep. Dontcha just love it?


Musta lost the outer two engines earlier...   ::loony::

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Re: Disasterous Boeing 707 crash
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2009, 09:31:17 PM »
following the link I just get a black screen - although the following video of the 767 ditching is visible.
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Re: Disasterous Boeing 707 crash
« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2009, 08:06:06 AM »
That's none of the above.

That's a 767.   The pilot was fighting a hijacker for the controls when it happened and out of fuel.  The reason it broke apart was it was in such a steep bank and dragged the wing to that extent.  Completely a result of the hijacker fighting the controls.   It says a lot that people survived even through that.
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Re: Disasterous Boeing 707 crash
« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2009, 12:00:19 PM »
if thats the ethiopian air one a lot of passengers drowned since they inflated their life jackets while still in side the aircraft.
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