Using a Cessna 172 dropped from a height of 100 feet, NASA’s Search and Rescue Mission Office simulated a severe but survivable plane accident Wednesday, Aug. 26 at the agency’s Langley Research Center to test emergency locator transmitters (ELTs). The devices are installed on general aviation and commercial planes to transmit a location signal in the event of a crash. On this third and final test in the series the plane was dropped from 100 feet, tail down into the ground.
NASA Crashes Plane to Test Emergency Devices
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10 responses to “NASA Crashes Plane to Test Emergency Devices”
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^^ This is like how people pull things apart to really learn how it works. So what NASA is doing is that they are crashing planes to know what will happen when they crash as to learn from this… (Opps, rant here :P)
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Ouch
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This video should have been 10 seconds long
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ooo whatcha sayyyyyyyy
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Is that 172 for sale?
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wtb high speed footage
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i would test it in a jagged cannon
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National Aeronautics "and" Space Administration. Are you people stupid to think they only deal with space?
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Butter landing
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