Srilm wrote:
The crash is not really representative, in my opinion, of what most crashes would be (controlled flat descent onto flat terrain). But it's the first time, and they wanted to make sure the recording equipment would not be destroyed. In the future, perhaps someone can get some funding to get equipment that would instantly download the data wirelessly to a remote location. They still got a lot of good data, it appears. I wish more of the show had been devoted to that aspect.
NASA tried a similar crash several years ago with a B720. They screwed-up, missed their mark and wound-up causing a huge inferno. These guys did not want a repeat of that episode. A big fire would have destroyed all of the data that they had recorded. Telemetry would be great but it is expensive and IF you have a fire you would lose all of that expensive gear. Need someone with deeper pockets than Discovery Channel to fund it.
Still, for what it was it was a worthwhile crash. Maybe this will motivate others to carry on this sort of work and do some much more realistic and spectacular crashes!
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