if they didn t do that. the concrete seawall separates the runway from the bay. slamming into it would likely be more disastrous than forcing the plane into the water. after the crash, the height of the seawall makes it difficult for the salvage crew to recover the sunken plane. you ve got a fairly high seawall, so in order to get to retrieve the plane, you have to first bring it up and close enough to shore and then you have to get the crane over to lift the plane out of the water. there is no physical evidence left to show that the crash ever happened. but for david darby, there is one lasting side effect. i don t know if i ll be flying in any little planes anytime soon. i just got it on film, bro. you got that? yeah. oh, my goodness! so far, we ve seen planes crash into water and on land. you would think once a plane makes it to the runway, it would be safe. think again.
it was just unbelievable to me. march 25th, 2011, dave darby is spending the afternoon at albert whitted airfield, a small airport just outside of tampa, florida. my buddy, kirk, who s been building this air control tower back here, he s been doing it for the past year and a half. i hadn t come out to check it out yet, so he wanted me to come and see it, so we decided to conveniently come and check it out the day the honda grand prix was going on. the honda grand prix is an open wheel indycar race and portions of the airport, including east-west runway, become part of the actual race course. the tower provides a perfect view to watch the race, so dave decides to bring his camera along. we were on top of the tower on the roof and i was just shooting just footage of, like, everything that was around, and then i noticed that there was a bunch of these old warplanes that were taxiing over here on
the runway and they were about to take off. sometimes we ll do air shows in between races or during the main race. in this case, this was like the event that kind of kicked the race off. i was getting the plane as it was coming in to land, it didn t really seem out of the ordinary to me. but the plane is in trouble. its engine stalls. and the pilot struggles to make the runway. at first, it looks to darby like the plane is going to make it. then as it was coming in, it just seemed like all of a sudden, it just dropped. it just hit the water. [ bleep ] dude. crashed and flipped forward. and it was just shocking, to say the least. immediately, boaters in the vicinity of the crash spring into action. all kinds of boats start speeding in to the plane, probably about ten of them. i think that some the boats that responded to the site were the police department because they had a boat already in the water for the race and i believe some coast guard as well.
slamming into it would likely be more disastrous than forcing the plane into the water. after the crash, the height of the seawall makes it difficult for the salvage crew to recover the sunken plane. you ve got a fairly high seawall, so in order to get to retrieve the plane, you have to first bring it up and close enough to shore and then you have to get the crane over to lift the plane out of the water. there is no physical evidence left to show that the crash ever happened. but for david darby, there is one lasting side effect. i don t know if i ll be flying in any little planes anytime soon. i just got it on film, bro. you got that? yeah. oh, my goodness! so far, we ve seen planes crash into water and on land. you would think once a plane makes it to the runway, it would be safe. think again.
at new york s jfk international airport, a large transcontinental airplane clips the tail of a smaller regional jet, spinning it with jarring force. april 11th, 2011, a small delta comair bombardier arriving from boston lands at jfk. and passengers on board get a frightening reminder of one of the reasons why they should not take their seat belts off before they reach the gate. 563. send the trucks. i just hit it. a massive airfrance airbus a380, taxing the runway, crashes into it, turning it about 45 degrees. emergency equipment. once ground control receives word of the accident, they immediately dispatch emergency personnel. after moving both planes away from the crash site, crews work to clean up any debris on the run way. the cause is still being investigated.