Playlist: Emergency Landings

Playlist: Tenerife Disaster

Split screen nightime landing of plane at Aspen Colorado

Falling out of the sky - Air Accidents - Swivel

Sources: National Transportation Safety Board (http://www.ntsb.gov/aviatio...)
After TAM Airlines flight 3054 crashed in Sao Paulo, Brazil, killing all 186 of its passengers, the question of transportation safety is once again being brought into question. This graph shows the number of major, serious, nonfatal w/ injury, and nonfatal non-injury w/ damage accidents since 1987. While the number of aircraft hours flown has steadily increased, it seems that U.S. aircraft safety has not permantly improved. The graph is ridden with inconsistent trend: the rate of accidents decreases throughout the late 80's and early 90's only to shoot back up in the late 90's and back down in the 2000's. Customer service has not improved much either, as is shown by the steady rate of late arrivals and lost luggage. The outlook for ground transportation does not look hopeful either, as public transporation fees rise due to increasing gas prices.



Falling out of the sky - Swivel

Aviation - Total by Accident Category - Swivel

Total by Accident Category - Swivel

FAA US Flight Patterns

Lockheed Martin Hooverlimp!

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Flying over Everest on a hang-glider

For the first time ever, Angelo D'Arrigo has flown over Everest on a hang-glider.

In Air Near Miss Causes Crash Video

This pilot has a near miss but the other planes tow rope gets caught in his propellar causing him to fall straight to the ground on his parachute.


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Bangkok Plane Crash Survivor Footage Video

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Bangkok Plane Crash Survivor Footage Video

Landing in Honduras

What A Pilot!! - The best home videos are here

Playlist: In Flight Videos

Description: Fighter on takeoff, bird strike in engine, engine failure.
Videos: 55

747-200F aborted takeoff and runway overshoot

This Tradewinds cargo 747-200 had an engine failure during takeoff causing it to overshoot the 3500 meter long wet runway.
Film taken at Medellín-José María Córdova Airport.

Explosive decompression - Boeing 747 Explosion Test

A Boeing 747 and a Lockheed Tristar are blown up by just a few hundred grams of explosives. The airplanes were pressurized simulating flight at high altitude.

China Airline Jet Exploded Into Fireball In Okinawa Japan

A Taiwanese China Airlines jet exploded into flames at an airport in Okinawa, Japan after arriving from Taiwan Monday, August 20 but all 165 people aboard escaped alive. The 157 passengers including two small children fled the Boeing 737-800 unhurt on inflated emergency slides just minutes before the plane burst into a fireball.
The aircraft skidded on the tarmac on its way from the runway to the gate after landing, starting a fire that prompted the emergency exit. The fire started when the left engine exploded, a minute after the aircraft entered the parking spot.
This is the video of a squad of firefighters dousing the empty plane with extinguishers as flames and clouds of black smoke billowed from the fuselage. The fire was put out about an hour later, leaving the aircraft charred and mangled.

1952 Newsreel - Futuristic and experimental aircrafts

-- Bill Horton's "wingless airplane". Bill entered into a partnership with Howard Hughes, and legal wrangling from that (still ongoing!) stopped all development of this plane.
-- "Sky Baby" the world's smallest homebuilt biplane, 1952. Made it in the "Guinness Book of World Records", but not practical for the homebuilt market and designer Ray Stits
donated it to the National Air and Space Museum.
-- the Fulton Airphibian, the first roadable aircraft (designed to be used as a car or an airplane) to be certificated by the Civil Aviation Administration.
-- XH-17 "Flying Crane", by Hughes aircraft. It still holds the record for the largest flying rotor system that ever flew. But was not practical for production.

Antonov AN-225

Antonov AN-225 displaying at the Abbotsford Airshow 1989.

Take off from MIA

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Final Approach Iguazu Falls, Argentina

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Costa Rica, landings... (Various airports)

Final Approach to San José


Aeropuerto Intl. Tobias Bolanos
YouTube - Aeronaves en Pavas: ""

A short traffic pattern at 800 feet AGL, turning to base and short final for runway 09 at MRPV. I learned to fly at this airport.
YouTube - Landing a Piper Archer II at Tobias International airport: ""



Quepos, La Managua


Tambor