Ja, dette var som aa se American lande i Seattle ....
Her er hele historien, klippet fra et annet forum:
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The aircraft involved in this incident is ship 909. It is the first DC9- Super 80 flight test aircraft. The crash was not intetnional but was a result of flight testing close to limits. The incident occured at Edwards AFB. The aircraft was in minimum crew configuration, pilot, copilot, and flight test engineer. The test was landing performance. Prior to the mid 80s, the FAA allowed testing of the air distance portion of the landing field length required by and aircraft. Therefore, aircraft were tested at maximum descent rates so as to minimize the above mention value. In this case, the vertical speed indicator was not properly calibrated. This resulted in the aircraft descending at higher than required rate. The result of which is evident in the video. The flight crew were not aware of the break up of the aircraft and had started to accelerate the engine for takeoff, touch and go. The air field tower called them off. In any case the aircraft would not have rotated. Since the test was at EAFB, the aircraft would hve had continued down the runway to the dry lake bed.
Just to close, no one was hurt.
The aircraft was badly damaged.
Interestingly enough, just a short time latter, the second flight test aircraft, ship 913, ran off the run way in Yuma AZ, Douglas Fllight Teste Center, and seared its landing gear. Luckily, it did not sustain much damage. Unluckily, the crane that was lifting it broke and cut the aircraft in two. Parts of 913 were used to repair 909. Ship 909 was retained by Douglas as a dedicated flighte tets vehicle. It tested the propfan engine of the mid/late 80s, bot GE36 and PW-Allison PW578 DX. Eventually, the aircraft was repaired and sold to a South American customer.
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Airlinerlist.com gir foelgende info om 909's skjebne:
'' to IASG (International Airline Support Group) r10.91,rr12.91 to be broken up for spares,sSherman TX 10.93 derelict, broken up 94 painted as N980DC ''
913 fikk ogsaa en trist endeligt ...
''w/o 19.6.80 Yuma, AZ dam 0(X) at landing, then had a crane falling on it 30.06.80 making it a write-off, HB-
INB Swissair
NTU''