Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/03/05/when-nasa-crash-landed-a-jetli.html
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The patient died, but the operation was a success.
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Touching how the crash test dummies hug each other. Overall rather disturbing though.
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First lesson learned from this test? Don’t install giant steel wing shredders at the end of the runway.
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There’s a political metaphor in this somewhere, but I can’t be bothered to think about it because it is so much fun watching the pure aesthetics of this explosive slow motion plane crash with no guilt about anyone dying or being hurt. Wait…
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Did you see the leg room?
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So Hollowood doesn’t exaggerate the explosion of a crashing jet.
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No, but they use the fireball of an exploding jet for a parking lot fender-bender.
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Crazy fools.
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You mean you didn’t notice the “dummy” piloting the plane was wearing a red MAGA cap?
[ETA: there is famous footage of a crashing jet that seemed to get used in music videos a lot years ago, I couldn’t find it on the Internet Archives-- anyone know what I’m talking about?]
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Wow pretty spectacular… Makes me wonder what sort of filming/camera equipment was used… Was it transmitting to external recorders, or did it survive the crash somehow?
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This doc from a few years ago was pretty good
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he FAA concluded that about one-quarter of the passengers would have survived,
Oh man, but who would want to?
#yikes
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Yep, that’s fucking terrifying.
I’m with Mr T. on this one.
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This was strangely beautiful but watching that one dummy lean over and hug the other one fucking BROKE me
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I really dig the soundtrack. Who composed it?
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Was just going to comment on it as well - has a bit of a Phillip Glass vibe.
Couldn’t find any mention of the score in the credits or the source site.
Back in the 40s and 50s NACA used the old Ravenna Arsenal site for full scale aircraft crash testing. The text is a little more dry than the video, but it does include a picture. https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4306/ch6.htm Search for Ravenna to find the relevant section (unless you are interested in icing tunnel development).
