Last week, our students had a chance to board an MD-80 aircraft from World Atlantic Airlines. ✈️ They walked up the airstairs and got the chance to step into the cockpit just like a real airline flight crew. Once inside, they explored the flight deck and took pictures. I even had the chance to sit with them and explain the different systems, controls, and switches in the cockpit – from the circuit breakers, APU, packs and fuel systems to the Autopilot, Primary Flight Displays, throttles, and com

Hard Landing: The Demonstration MD-80 Slammed Into Runway, Lost Its Tail

The MD80 was performing a flight test, and broke in two during landing - Video