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The largest helicopter ever built was a massive aircraft developed in the Soviet Union during the 1960s called the Mil V-12. The V-12 was a rather unusual test vehicle that featured two rotors mounted side by side at the ends of a large wing. Each rotor had a diameter of nearly 115 ft (35 m). The helicopter was so enormous that the distance from the edge of one rotor disk to the other was almost 220 ft (67 m), even wider across than the wingspan of a Boeing 747!

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At Yantai International Airport, China, on the morning of 12 Aug 2007, the staff of Shandong Airlines can be seen pushing an aircraft out of water infested areas. The flooding was due to heavy downpour from the 8 to 12 August.

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This is a look back at some of the virals, crashes, accidents, stunts, mis-haps, bloopers & calamaties over the past few years of the internet. Some of your old favorites will be here.

A TAM Airlines Airbus 320 carrying 176 people crashed while attempting to land in heavy rain at Sao Paulo’s Congonhas Airport. The Sao Paulo fire department said at least 200 people, including some on the ground, were dead at the scene.

Witnesses said the plane skidded across a major road at rush hour. Reports that the plane struck a gas station could not be confirmed, but a massive fire broke out. The plane apparently struck a building bearing the airline’s logo at the small domestic airport in the heart of the city.

The airport is notorious for having short, slippery runways. The runway was recently resurfaced but the cutting of grooves to channel rainwater off the pavement had not been completed. A Brazilian court in February banned large jets at the busy airport because of safety concerns. But an appeals court overruled the ban, saying it would hurt business and that the safety problems did not warrant halting air traffic.

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According to the report issued by Pilots for 9/11 Truth, there are major differences between the official account and the flight data:

a. The NTSB Flight Path Animation approach path and altitude does not support official events.
b. All Altitude data shows the aircraft at least 300 feet too high to have struck the light poles.
c. The rate of descent data is in direct conflict with the aircraft being able to impact the light poles and be captured in the Dept of Defense “5 Frames” video of an object traveling nearly parallel with the Pentagon lawn.
d. The record of data stops at least one second prior to official impact time.
e. If data trends are continued, the aircraft altitude would have been at least 100 feet too high to have hit the Pentagon.

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