What Can We Learn From Crashing a Plane on Purpose? [Airplanes]

Why do some people survive plane crashes and others don’t? Having an entire aircraft at your disposal to deliberately crash under controlled circumstances, as they do in a new Discovery Channel documentary, would seem a great way to answer that question. More »

Watch Two Planes Collide, Get Stuck Together in Mid-Air and Somehow Separate Before Landing Safely [Video]

If I was a pilot and I saw a plane headed straight toward me, I’d figure I was doomed. If I was a pilot and I saw a plane stuck to my own plane, I’d figure we were both doomed. Luckily for these two pilots in Holland, who hit each other in mid-air and then found themselves stuck to one another, they managed to pull away from each other and land safely on the beach. Amazing. [YouTube via The Awesomer] More »