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But sometimes it's a full sized plane so the government can see what happens when you crash something like that in the ground. sometimes it's planes and sometimes it's automobiles but sometimes what the government are crashing on purpose are trains. >> at a railroad testing grounds in colorado today, the department of transportation sends two cars at 26 miles an hour into a concrete wall. here it is again, different view. and unusual test to learn more about rail car safety. >> that high speed crash test of a passenger train car was conducted by the federal railroad administration. they wanted...

In the nose of the plane, right until the time the lens breaks. >> yeah, so that didn't work. that was the supposedly less combustible jet fuel bursting into flames just like it wasn't supposed to. this is the view from inside the cabin of the plane. the test dummies handle the impact of the crash and the cabin fills with flames and it's bye-bye to the dummies. and when we think about the test crash stuff, it's usually the cars and the dummies in the steering column. but sometimes it's a full sized plane so the government can see what happens when you crash something like that in the ground. s...

>> yeah, so that didn't work. that was the supposedly less combustible jet fuel bursting into flames just like it wasn't supposed to. this is the view from inside the cabin of the plane. the test dummies handle the anymore impact of the crash but then the entire cabin justl< fills with flames and it's bye-bye to those poor dummies. when we think about the government crash testing stuff it's the cars with the dummies going head first into the steering column or whatever. it's not always cars. but sometimes it's a full sized commercial airliner with a camera attached to the tail so a government ...