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In 1984, NASA and the FAA deliberately crashed a remote-piloted Boeing 720 as a test of various safety technologies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Im

by jffry 4y ago

In 1984, NASA and the FAA deliberately crashed a remote-piloted Boeing 720 as a test of various safety technologies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Impact_Demonstration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Impact_Demonstratio... In 2012, a team of television studios crashed a Boeing 727 in Mexico (to film footage) because US authorities would not permit the test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Boeing_727_crash_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Boeing_727_crash_experime... So I'm guessing that outside of very specific scenarios, you would have a hard time getting permission to deliberately crash a plane anywhere in the US.

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Retric 4y ago
Yea, I doubt you actually need a specific permit to crash an aircraft in a controlled fashion rather than everything else like operating a huge drone etc. The issue is the YouTuber essentially abandoned control of the aircraft so it could have landed on anything.
- jffry 4y ago
  Yes, but the comment I was replying to was discussing scenarios other than the one in the article.
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aidenscott2016 4y ago
Do you know what the source of the crash in this video [1] is? I’ve wanted to know ever since I saw the same clip in a few films, including Airplane 2 [1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sGQpQabwf8U https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sGQpQabwf8U
- p_l 4y ago
  It's from FAA crash test involving DC-7 https://youtu.be/Z-So3btcvCQ https://youtu.be/Z-So3btcvCQ