Boeing 727 Passenger Jet Crash Experiment On April 27, 2012, an international team of scientists, experts and elite pilots deliberately crash landed a 170-seat Boeing 727 passenger jet to study the mechanics of a plane crash in real time. The jet was then slammed into the ground by remote control in a “high vertical load impact” where the plane falls short of the runway. It hit the ground at 140mph – the speed of impact in 80% of crashes – while 24 cameras recorded the result. The first 11 rows

Dramatic Boeing 727 crash-test !! . On April 27, 2012, a team of scientists staged an airplane crash into the Sonoran desert in Mexico. The Boeing 727-200, fitted with 170 crash-test dummies with breakable bones, cameras and sensors. The dummies were categorically arranged in three different positions on board the plane: one in the classic brace and wearing a seat-belt; one belted but not in the brace position; and one neither belted nor in the brace. After the pilot parachuted out of the plane