Last night Channel 4 screened an incredibly insightful, interesting and thoroughly entertaining documentary about a group of engineers, pilots, designers and air crash investigators, who took it upon themselves to crash a Boeing 727 airliner into the Mexican desert to look at a crash up close and in detail for the first time.
While I initially had reservations that after the show finished I’d be left rocking in the corner muttering the words made famous by B.A. Baracus, but I’m pleased to report that actually the design of modern airliners mean they are really quite safe, and after analysing the data from the crash in great detail, the crash investigators only had a few small recommendations to make in the way of design improvements.
What made this show so engaging was the sheer amount of effort and the precision of planning required to pull this task off, the fact that the team involved had to fly the 727 via a remote control for the final three minutes of the flight and some of the slow-motion footage from inside the aircraft at the moment of the crash was spectacular.
With the current standard of modern television declining rapidly it was so refreshing to watch something interesting, entertaining and thought provoking for a change rather being served up the usual re-hashed generic drivel.
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