Nightly News   |  May 01, 2012

Jumbo jet crash test

The Discovery Channel staged a test to find out how to design a plane that’s better equipped to handle a crash. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.

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>>> this is what it looked like when the discovery channel set out to see what really happens when a jet goes down. in this cases an aging 727, which had no humans on board, a controlled cash in the uninhabited section of the mexican desert. front half tore off, the rear end survived, no fire or explosion as so many in real life .