6 Test Flights That Went HORRIBLY Wrong!

Long before any of us will get a ride on its airframe, somebody needs to find out just how much can be expected of it. Instructors and test pilots, and engineers push every piece of metal to its breaking point-taking a plane too slowly, or taking off with no engine, and generally throwing a bird through the sort of trouble that the rest of us were taught to evade. These are the most dangerous of the professions on this list; they are undertaken so that none of us are ever exposed to that sort of thing. But every so often the machine breaks and the flight intended to prove that the machine was safe kills everyone on board. In this video we follow a few of the most terrifying test, training, and demonstration flights to date: From the trouble check that killed everyone sent to run it, to the frantic rush to the sky for one last chance; to the brand new vehicle that ripped apart at the edge of space. We'll see frozen instrumentation, lethal equations, seasoned flyers defeated by their own ego, and the safety systems that were born out of the wrecks. When Testing a Plane DESTROYS It! Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 00:25 Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo 05:25 Hawker Stall Test Crashes 09:40 Gulfstream G650 / Flight 153 14:51 Air New Zealand DC-8 18:40 XL Airways 888T 23:04 SmartLynx 9001 27:19 End #aircrashinvestigation #aviation #planecrash #aviationhistory #piloterror #airdisaster