Worst UFIT ground impact of all time?
Basically, which would you say was the most brutal impact that any large aircraft like a widebody has ever had with the ground. This does not include suicides or mid-air breakup; the plane has to be uncontrollable when it strikes the ground and explodes.
One of my candidates would be the crash of TC-JAV Ankara, the DC-10-10 that was part of the Turkish Airlines Flight 981 disaster. It was travelling at almost 500 mph when it literally nosedived into the Ermenonville Forest and disintegrated upon impact with the ground, killing all 346 people aboard.
u/Minute_Ball_6539 — 3 days ago