Simviation Forum - Looking for a video of a plane crash

Jun 10^th, 2005 at 10:32pm

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Hello, A long time ago I had a video of the FedEx 14 N611FE that crashed at Newark Int'l on July 31, 1997. It was footage from ABC that showed the plane upside down and burning and the fire crews were throwing foam and water on it. I like to use videos like that for training my guys at my airport FD. ANYONE with info on where I could find this, please respond or better yet, e-mail me at ARFFguy@hotmail.com Thank you very much.

Brent Reeves
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Kalamazoo/Battle Creek Int'l Airport FD.
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Reply #1 - Jun 13^th, 2005 at 8:18am

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Hello, A long time ago I had a video of the FedEx 14 N611FE that crashed at Newark Int'l on July 31, 1997. It was footage from ABC that showed the plane upside down and burning and the fire crews were throwing foam and water on it. I like to use videos like that for training my guys at my airport FD. ANYONE with info on where I could find this, please respond or better yet, e-mail me at ARFFguy@hotmail.com Thank you very much.

Brent Reeves
Captain/Training Officer
Kalamazoo/Battle Creek Int'l Airport FD.
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Can't help you with a video link... have you tried contacting the network?
This post caught my eye because I live close to KEWR and happened to be standing in my parking lot when that crash occurred... it sounded like the normal thrust-reverse at first (can't actually see the runways from there), but it just kept on going, and getting louder. Just as I thought "uh-oh", I could see a sickening column of very black smoke beginning to rise from the south end of the field.
The good news? It was a freighter, and the flight crew and a few "dead-headers" got out OK. Looking at that charred wreck later, I was amazed that they survived. It somehow rolled almost inverted on final, slammed to the ground inverted, and burst into flames right away...

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Reply #2 - Jun 13^th, 2005 at 8:32am

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sorry cant help with a video. Reading the NTSB report this sounds a little like the Fed-ex MD10 crash in memphis last year. with this being an MD11 it sounds to me like the small tail contributed to this as it has done in other MD11 incidents/accidents. Notoriusly difficult to control on finals as it requires quite a nose high approach.

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Reply #3 - Jun 13^th, 2005 at 8:59am

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Craig, I dont think the MD11 as ain aicraft was the factor. The pilot simply overcontrolled the aircraft, slamming the ground causing heavy structural damage.
That's what happens when you destabilize the flare and add an increasing sinkrate.

Same result would've been achieved on any commercial airliner.

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