attention: test pilot wanted

IF you look closely, on the tail is the Cornish flag, the St Pirans cross (white cross on black). Obviously this indicates that really this was an accident caused by inebriation (St Piran being a famour pisshead). Typical NASA cover story.."We meant to crash the plane. Honest. Why not...why is everyone looking at me like that....go away!"

hmmm, the plane seems to transform into a gigantic ball of fire, interesting.

The Controlled Impact Demonstration was a joint project with the Federal Aviation Administration to research a new jet fuel that would decrease the damage due to fire in the crash of a large airliner. A remotely piloted Boeing 720 aircraft was flown into specially built wing openers which tore the wings open and fuel sprayed everywhere. Despite the new fuel additive the resulting fire ball was huge and the fire still took an hour to fully extinguish.

Even though the fuel additive did not prevent a fire the research was not a complete failure. The additive still prevented the combustion of some fuel which flowed over the fuselage of the air craft and served to cool it similar to how a conventional rocket engine cools its nozzle. Also instrumented crash test dummys were in the airplane for the impact and provided valuable research into other aspects of crash survivability for the occupants.