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Plane crash TV: Channel 4 to destroy passenger jet
- jacquesm 17y agoThe report on the crash that prompted this TV program: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/12/heathrow_777_update/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/12/heathrow_777_update/ Crashing a functioning airliner on purpose seems kind of wasteful, I hope something that industry can use will come out of this.
- ars 17y agoThey never said it was a functioning airliner. Airplanes have a finite lifespan, specifically the total lifetime number of pressurizations http://www.airspacemag.com/need-to-know/NEED-lifecycles.html http://www.airspacemag.com/need-to-know/NEED-lifecycles.html so they could easily take one of those and give it a final flight.
- jacquesm 17y agoThank you that was an interesting read. I realized that pressurization cycles stress the materials but didn't clue in that that puts a hard upper limit on the number of flights a body can make.
- ax0n 17y agoI have to wonder how badly it would suck to bail from an airliner going 120+ knots. That's about the slowest most heavies can go without falling out of the sky.
- cameldrv 17y agoProbably not too bad. They'll put it on autopilot and go out the back door. It's routine for paratroopers.
- motters 17y agoSounds like channel 4 are getting pretty desperate for viewers.
- ashishbharthi 17y agoI dont agree that Boeing or Air but never did this.
- ashishbharthi 17y agohttp://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/boeingaerospace/2003849110_boeingtest23.html http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/boeingaerospace/200384...
- iuguy 17y agoWow, I've heard of car crash television, but never plane crash television. Things must be getting desperate now that Big Bother's finished.
- sown 17y agoThere was a similar effort in the US in the summer of 2001. We all know now what happens when a plane crashes.
- sown 17y agoI'm talking about some producer at Fox who wanted to do the same thing. The FAA said no and then 9/11 happened. And it was 1999, not 2001, my mistake.