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NASA photo ID: EC84-31806

Moments after hitting and sliding through the wing openers the aircraft burst into flame, with a spectacular fireball seen emanating from the right inboard engine area. In a typical aircraft crash, fuel spilled from ruptured fuel tanks forms a fine mist that can be ignited by a number of sources at the crash site. In 1984 the NASA Dryden Flight Research Facility, located in Edwards Air Force Base, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) teamed-up in a unique flight experiment called the Controlled Impact Demonstration (CID), to test crash a Boeing 720 aircraft using standard fuel with an additive designed to suppress fire. The CID, which some people called the Crash in the Desert, was spectacular with a large fireball enveloping and burning the B-720 aircraft.

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  • (del) (cur) 03:00, 27 April 2005 . . Triddle (Talk | contribs) . . 1548×1115 (2,285,518 bytes) ({{PD-NASA}} NASA photo ID: EC84-31806 Moments after hitting and sliding through the wing openers the aircraft burst into flame, with a spectacular fireball seen emanating from the right inboard engine area. In a typical aircraft crash, fuel spilled from)
  • (del) (rev) 05:35, 23 April 2005 . . Triddle (Talk | contribs) . . 1800×1400 (877,121 bytes) ({{PD-NASA}} In NASA's Controlled Impact Demonstration the fuel tanks of a Boeing 720 have been ripped open during a planned crash landing and are spraying fuel everywhere. The resulting fireball took hours to extinguish. )

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