The Plane Crash Documentary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm68PK8GCuk

You can watch the full documentary here:

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-plane-crash/4od

The plane crash was a one hour twelve minute documentary following  a crew of scientists, pilots and air crash investigators who plan to fill a Boeing 727 full of cameras and crash test equipment and crash it into the desert. 

The test took 4 years to plan and develop in order to get permission to crash the plane. There has never been a test like this in the world that has so much scientific apparatus on board the plane including slow mo cameras to see what happens inside the plane when it collides with the earth. 

The documentary has large amounts of scripted elements to reconstruct what was not possible on the day to shoot. It also had a wide mixture of sit down interviews and actuality shots and interviews.  The documentary also has a large amount of graphics, them being text and also moving computer animated simulations of the crash itself. Is shows archived footage of airplane crashes and has interviews with some of the crash survivors.

This documentary would have come across a lot of boundaries for example they had a permit that only lasted till a certain date and if they went over that date then the experiment and the production would not have been able to carry on. As well as risk of death, the pilots had to parachute out of the plane not long before the impact. The plane could have lost control and created an explosion or ended up in a populated area. 


This was a bold and risk taking documentary but it work out brilliant in the end and completely worth the money that was spend on it, as it has helped manufacturers of aircrafts see their build flaws and to show them what they could do to help reduce any more air crashes in the future.