Accident Boeing 727-212 XB-MNP,

ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 320947

Date:	Friday 27 April 2012
Time:	10:00
Type:	Boeing 727-212
Owner/operator:	Unknown
Registration:	XB-MNP
MSN:	21348/1287
Year of manufacture:	1977
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney JT8D-17 (HK3)
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants:
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	Laguna Salada - Mexico
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Test
Departure airport:	Mexicali Airport (MXL/MMML)
Destination airport:	-
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
A former Champion Air Boeing 727-200, with Mexican registration XB-MNP, crashed at Laguna Salada, west of the San Felipe-Mexicali Highway, in a tv crash test experiment.
The test was performed with coordination of the Mexican DGAC and government agencies, for a television programme being made by the UK's Dragonfly Film and Television Productions, in association with the US Discovery Channel, as well as Germany's Pro Sieben and the UK's Channel 4.

Sources:

Plane deliberately crash lands for Channel 4 (Channel 4, 30-4-2012)
La Voz

Images:

photo (c) LWp Kommunikáció; Laguna Salada; 29 April 2012; (CC:by)