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Controlled Crash Test, Phoenix AZ, 1964

Reel Number: 220986-03

Color: Colour

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1964

Country: USA

Location: AZ,PHOENIX

TC Begins: 22:18:48

TC Ends: 22:27:26

Duration: 00:08:38

Controlled Crash Test, Phoenix AZ, 1964 Federal Aviation test to determine crash effects on aircraft passengers: LS Lockheed Constellation 1049 taxis through desert, partly obscured by undergrowth in FG. Nose gear of plane mounted on guide rail. Camera pans as plane taxis at high speed into embankment actual impact missing. Cloud of smoke rises from embankment. All in slo-mo. 22:22:47 LS Constellation on tarmac pre-crash, workers load recording equipment; CUs sensors mounted on side of aircraft. CU guide rail attached to nose gear. VS embankment at end of runway. MS crashed plane on embankment after impact, broken into three section; MCU workers and officials around crash site; CU smashed cockpit; view down embankment from upper section of plane and reverse shot from below.

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