April 27, 2012, was a clear, balmy day in Mexicali, Mexico - a picture-perfect day for a Boeing 727 to crash-land in the middle of a desert. The crash was intentional. It took four years to arrange the event, captured for a special two-hour episode of Discovery Channel's "Curiosity TV" The ill-fated passengers were crash-test dummies worth more than half a million dollars (ABC News, "Good Morning America," Neal Karlinsky, October 2012). Last October in Langley, VA by order of NASA, a CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter smashed into the ground at 30 mph from a 30 ft. height. The doomed vehicle carried 13 manikins, whose experiences were captured by the 40 HD cameras onboard snapping away 500 images per second.
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