Korean_Redneck

As some of you may know, I am very much into Aircraft safety and disaster. It's hard to find videos about them, hence the reason why I have so many books. These graphics in this documentary are totally amazing. They look so real.

Cliff Notes:

1. March 27, 1977. Two Boeing 747s, operated by KLM and Pan Am, collide on a foggy runway at Tenerife, in Spain's Canary Islands killing 583 people. The KLM jet departed without permission and struck the Pan Am jet as it taxied along the same runway. Confusion over instructions and a blockage of radio transmissions contributed to the crash.

Part 1:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=r84EA-xTIKo&amp...ted&search=

another series part 1:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=kmItf4Um7EA

Part 2:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-poRLXRaRSw&amp...ted&search=

Another series part 2:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=aLYaZ3Ek8yY&amp...ted&search=


This is why I'm scared of the Airbus A380, that has the capacity of 600+ people. If one crashes, that will set the record of the most deaths. I'll wait 25 years until I ride in this airplane. 747's and 777 is my choice for international flights still. These planes have been in the air for a long time and that's what most engineers know.

It's also sad that most crashes are due to Pilot error. This crash was soooo avoidable at all cost.


Here some others: TWA 800

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3UMw8ad30J8

UAL232(I have this made-for-tv movie)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UL2Qk3UyLjE

Worst aviation disaster in the USA. Engineer mechanic fault. lazy...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rwgSVhgFm7E




AMAZING: actual footage of an airline disaster from inside the plane

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2HOyfFC6uOc

Mad-Machine

I remember the one with the DC10. That was pretty scary to think the engine just ripped off like that.

javageek

Yeah, I just flew all the way home on a DC10. sad.gif

Korean_Redneck

It was a freak accident. What happen is that the engineers put the engine on a forklift. Then when lunch time rolled around, the forklift lost a little hydraulic pressure, but it was enough to crack something in the pylon. When the plane took off, the pylon ripped. This is all because of one careless mistake.

'treezy

don't forget about the one that started it all, the midair collision directly over the Grand Canyon, killing all onboard both aircraft totalling over 100 souls.

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Basically, woke up the aviation world and gave birth to ATC.

What's even scarier to think about is the problems that ignited the fuel tanks on the TWA flight over NYC/Atlantic were never corrected in civilian aircraft. The Navy fixed their fleet of jets (which had the same problem, high voltage wires ran together with the low voltage wires that went INTO the fuel tanks to the electronic fuel gauge meter. Any crack in the insulator and a short and there's a high voltage spark directly to your fuel tanks, ectremly dangerous on a relatively empty tank (mostly vapors).

The FAA basically came out and said, we've weighed the costs and it'd be cheaper to lose an aircraft loaded with passengers and pay the families for their losses everytime this rare occurance happened than to rewire every civilian aircraft today (talking tens of billions of dollars).

Every company does it, even penacillin proves to be fatal every 1 in 1,000,000 or something, but people still take it, and people will still fly.