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For our crash, we decided to do American Airlines flight 191. It was a plane that took off from chicago O'hare airport then lost it's left engine. The pilots took action from there but it teilted and crashed into a nearby trailer park. The video below shows exactly what happened and what the pilots did in their attempts to save it.

American Airlines Flight 191 CRASH VIDEO FROM YOUTUBE

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Here is our recreation of what the pilots should have done to save the plane media type="youtube" key="KWrdkPhSC9A" height="344" width="425"

Commentary and flying by Arshon

NOTE: When research was done, it was concluded that the engine falling off caused the hydraulic lines to be severed and let hydraulic liquid fall out. This controls the planes steering. After that however, the pilots were still able to control the plane for 2 minutes until the hydraulics were completely emptied. In this particular video, it took about 2 minutes and 30 seconds for the plane to land after its incident but experienced pilots would have flown the bigger plane faster and would have been able to line it up with the runway faster. So, our recreation is doable by a real pilot in the situation had he known what was happening.