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You're right, it's a movie. "Lord of War", IIRC.
The shot with antonov landing into the crowd is really from [US] movie - Lord of War.
The F18 with the crumpled nose hit another F18, and took out (more then??) half of one of its wings. Both F18 aircraft made a safe landing, no injuries.
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/planes/q0076.shtml
Air Canada 747 a photoshop job
The photo of the American Airline 777 experiencing an engine fire on takeoff is photo-shopped.
The first picture just shows an F-18 with an empty MER - multiple ejection rack. I assume the picture depicts the return from a mission.
Excellent photos by the way!
The black and white image is a Piper J-3 Cub. He's probably trying to reach the compression release so he can get his engine restarted.
"Indecent Exposure" also looks suspiciously like a photoshopped pic.
The pic of the Sukhoi aerobatic plane upside down and crumpling - the pilot survived that crash, thankfully.
The US transport with the cracked wings probably was fueled incorrectly. If you pump fuel into or out of the wings without opening the appropriate pressure valves, a vacuum resp. an overpressure is created in the wing tanks, which causes structural failure.
The pic of the car falling from the plane, is a stunt done by skydivers in which they get an old car, strip everything out of it for safety and jump out of the plane in it for a giggle.
Check out this moron in a mig http://splodetv.com/moron-mig
The picture with the jet near a gas station is a Southwest Airlines plane that overshot the runway in Burbank:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1455
The F-18 with the empty stores rack is conducting normal flight operations; the yellowshirt to the left of the picture is telling the pilot to hit the switch to unfold the plane's wings to flight position.
On your "better equipped for landing", that is a "Flinto". A strap-on for the Ford Pinto, sometime in the sixties I think. Only a few were ever made.
great info! thank you - updated
More "jumping ship", from Russia this time -
The first on is Russian the second one is a Canadian Armed Forces CT-133.
"Ejection tests carried out by CAF from the rear of the CT-133 coded 413"
http://www.ejection-history.org.uk/Aircraft_by_Type/Canadian_CF-104.htm
russian- the best!
Don't forget Aloha Airlines "737 convertible" Flight 243,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_Airlines_Flight_243. An incredible performance by the flight crew saved many lives that day.
To provide a little insight:
The C-141 with the catastrophic wing failure fell victim to un-authorized fuel system plugs put in place during maintenance and not removed, the wing failed the first time they fuelled it.
The Southwest Airlines B737 was not at Burbank, CA.
No snow in Burbank plus the only recorded accident on the books for SWA is Chicago Midway a few years ago
Ran off the end and crushed a kid
That's chemical foam in Burbank, not snow
I can corroborate the Southwest crash at Burbank (Bob Hope). The runway deck is elevated about 5 feet above the surface of the street. There used to be a gas station across the street from the end of the runway. The plane went through the fence, dropped down to street level and entered the gas station. Thankfully and surprisingly it did not hit any pumps.
Needless to say there is no longer a gas station there, it's been replaced by some vegetation.
1) More info on the F-18 mid-air.
2) Search YouTube for "crosswind landings". Lots of great ones, I won't bother listing them here.
3) Surprised you didn't include the Kalitta 747 that broke apart at Brussels last month.
4)"In the PronAir Boeing 747 radical lift-off", the gear seems to be all the way up. Unless he kept it low for a several seconds while bringing the gear up, and then pulled up, it doesn't look like a takeoff... Great fun nonetheless.
5) You've seen this, right?
Here's a photo of Oh! Hard Luck, a B-1b that belly surfed in Diego Garcia. lol The pilots forgot to do the proper landing checks, neglecting to drop landing gear, forcing them to belly land her.
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t49/celtgunn70/Planes/3129071432_6072a6ae73.jpg
A B-1b & bus incident http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t49/celtgunn70/Planes/3129071432_6072a6ae73.jpg
A-10 incident http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t49/celtgunn70/Planes/3129071432_6072a6ae73.jpg
Get your kicks nacel incident http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t49/celtgunn70/Planes/3129071432_6072a6ae73.jpg
I hope I managed to get the links right so they work properly. :) By the way, I've very much enjoyed surfing your website! :D
in 72 an raf bucineer crashed in to a belfast office block, narrowly
avoiding a school.
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