That video puts all the initial 'cartwheeling' and 'flipping' comments into much better context. It's easy to see how onlookers could've mistaken that action with the plane turning over. I'm seriously impressed that there were only two fatalities.
As a semi-unrelated note, as someone who has to watch a lot of near east homemade "terrorist" videos, this video gives a great western corollary to the incessant "Allahu Akbar" that is chanted throughout those videos. The "Oh my god" is almost literally a translation and is used in similar manner and contexts, though not all.
I was wondering last night why there isn't video of airplane landings being taken as a routine course of action? If nothing eventful happens they can delete the footage but in an instance like this they would have video of exactly what happened.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai2HmvAXcU0" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai2HmvAXcU0</a><p>video of boeing stress-testing 777 wings by deflecting them up with cables, against a stationary fuselage<p>first thing that came to mind after seeing the video of the crashed plane do a cartwheel on its wing.
I was very skeptical of comments that the plane 'cartwheeled' and 'flipped'. I just didn't believe there was not only not enough energy, but there would be a lot more fatalities and the airframe would be even more wrecked.<p>However, this video was quite the shocker. Not only does the aircraft do a near 360 degree spin, but you could see the bottom of the aircraft as it spins with the tail up and nose down with the right wing up in the air. Amazing only 2 fatalities so far and the aircraft was intact as it was.
Question for anyone with media/newsroom experience:<p>How does CNN get exclusive access to an amateur video like this? What process was in place such that this didn't end up on YouTube first?