THE PLANE CRASH

694722942 More4 22:00 23760000 A chance to see this dramatic landmark Channel 4 documentary, which follows an international team of scientists, experts and elite pilots as they deliberately crash land a 170-seat Boeing 727 passenger jet to provide a once-in-a-generation chance to study the mechanics of a plane crash in real time. The documentary recreates a common type of crash - a serious but survivable 'forced landing' - in order to study the crashworthiness of the aircraft's airframe and cabin, examine the impact of crashes on the human body, and look for possible means of increasing passenger survivability. By crashing the plane, the programme also aims to answer key questions, shedding light on whether your seating position, wearing a seatbelt and using the brace position could save your life. FedEx captain James 'JimBob' Slocum, who has previously survived three plane crashes, pilots the passenger jet, nick-named 'Big Flo' (after crew member Leland 'Chip' Shanle's grandmother, Florence) on her last flight. Putting their lives on the line, JimBob and the rest of the crew aim to parachute from the plane just minutes before impact, after setting it on a crash course. The plane is then flown remotely until impact from a chase plane by former US Navy pilot Leland 'Chip' Shanle - making it the world's biggest remote controlled aircraft. Flying at 140mph, and descending at 1500 feet per minute, the aircraft will crash-land nose-down in a remote and uninhabited area of Mexican desert. Rather than carrying passengers, the plane is packed with state-of-the-art research equipment, including three crash test dummies worth $150,000 each (plus a number of simpler sandbag dummies) and accelerometers to measure the G-force on passengers. Dozens of cameras record the crash from inside the aircraft, on the ground, in chase planes and even on the pilot's helmet. Dir: Ryan Senter; Prod: Geoff Deehan; Exec Prods: Sanjay Singhal, Simon Dickson; Prod Co: Dragonfly Film and Television Productions N False 33 THE PLANE CRASH David Glover DRAGONFLY FILM AND TELEVISION PRODUCTIONS LTD Education - Science S/T 2009 THE PLANE CRASH False 1 False False 01:40 A chance to see this dramatic landmark Channel 4 documentary, which follows an international team of scientists, experts and elite pilots as they deliberately crash land a 170-seat Boeing 727 passenger jet to provide a once-in-a-generation chance to study the mechanics of a plane crash in real time. The documentary recreates a common type of crash - a serious but survivable 'forced landing' - in order to study the crashworthiness of the aircraft's airframe and cabin, examine the impact of crashes on the human body, and look for possible means of increasing passenger survivability. By crashing the plane, the programme also aims to answer key questions, shedding light on whether your seating position, wearing a seatbelt and using the brace position could save your life. FedEx captain James 'JimBob' Slocum, who has previously survived three plane crashes, pilots the passenger jet, nick-named 'Big Flo' (after crew member Leland 'Chip' Shanle's grandmother, Florence) on her last flight. Putting their lives on the line, JimBob and the rest of the crew aim to parachute from the plane just minutes before impact, after setting it on a crash course. The plane is then flown remotely until impact from a chase plane by former US Navy pilot Leland 'Chip' Shanle - making it the world's biggest remote controlled aircraft. Flying at 140mph, and descending at 1500 feet per minute, the aircraft will crash-land nose-down in a remote and uninhabited area of Mexican desert. Rather than carrying passengers, the plane is packed with state-of-the-art research equipment, including three crash test dummies worth $150,000 each (plus a number of simpler sandbag dummies) and accelerometers to measure the G-force on passengers. Dozens of cameras record the crash from inside the aircraft, on the ground, in chase planes and even on the pilot's helmet. Dir: Ryan Senter; Prod: Geoff Deehan; Exec Prods: Sanjay Singhal, Simon Dickson; Prod Co: Dragonfly Film and Television Productions<br/>
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