A dramatic documentary follows an international team of experts as they re-create a plane crash was shown Sunday (Oct. 14) in a feature-length on the Discovery Channel. Elite pilots deliberately crash landed a 170-seat Boeing 727 jet in a remote Mexican desert to provide what they call a once-in-a-generation chance to study the mechanics of a plane crash in real time.  The purpose was to study the crashworthiness of the aircraft’s airframe and cabin, the new technologies of black boxes  … Read more…