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I'm a pilot (commercial, former CFII, not ATP, no turbine), I don't really recommend watching the video. Basically it's 34 seconds of cell phone camera video, n
by cmurf 7y ago
I'm a pilot (commercial, former CFII, not ATP, no turbine), I don't really recommend watching the video. Basically it's 34 seconds of cell phone camera video, night, of a burning plane a little bigger than the size of an ant on your screen. But there is enough information to see that: it's flying (control surfaces are producing lift, the plane is intact) for most of this time and obviously the time before the video starts, there's a burst when it's maybe a couple hundred feet above the ground which could be an inflight breakup at that point and trajectory becomes more steep, and then it's hidden as it impacts the ground but there's a big explosion. Not likely survivable. I don't have the experience, and can't tell from the video, what exactly is on fire: engine, wing, fuselage. In the end it does look like the entire fuselage is on fire.