Air Disasters (2011)
Harrowing stories of tragedy and triumph are brought to life through official reports, transcripts and interviews with the pilots, air traffic controllers and lucky survivors of history's most terrifying crashes. Widely considered to be the safest form of travel, air transportation is still in its infancy and when midair calamity strikes, the results are often catastrophic. From the cockpit to the cabin, from the control room to the crash scene, we uncover just what went wrong.
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Episode 1 - Kathmandu Descent
Release Date: 2020-09-06Witness the final minutes of PIA Flight 268 and discover why it crashed into a mountain just minutes from landing.
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Episode 2 - Impossible Pitch
Release Date: 2020-09-13Witness the doomed flight of a West Air Sweden jet and see how the failure of a single instrument led to catastrophe.
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Episode 3 - Explosive Touchdown
Release Date: 2020-09-20Most passengers relax after their plane touches down, but when Uni Air Flight 873 landed, that's when the terror began.
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Episode 4 - Taxiway Turmoil
Release Date: 2020-09-27Follow the investigation to see how a DC-9 ended up on the wrong runway and in the path of an oncoming 727.
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Episode 5 - Runway Breakup
Release Date: 2020-10-04Landing on a Caribbean island in a severe tropical storm, a Colombian airliner crashes short of the runway. Investigators need to find out why.
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Episode 6 - Icy Descent
Release Date: 2020-10-11Investigators are stumped when a turboprop slams into an Argentine desert, and it's a microscopic filament that provides the first tangible clue.
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Episode 7 - Atlantic Ditching
Release Date: 2020-10-18A helicopter carrying offshore oil workers crashes into the ocean off the coast of Newfoundland and a far-reaching investigation reveals a fatal flaw.
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Episode 8 - No Warning
Release Date: 2020-10-25Investigators are stumped when a turboprop crashes into an Indonesian mountaintop.
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Episode 9 - Cockpit Killer
Release Date: 2020-11-01When an African airliner mysteriously crashes, Namibian investigators rule out a host of possible causes before reaching a chilling conclusion.
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Episode 10 - Stormy Cockpit
Release Date: 2020-11-08A brand-new 737 falls from the sky over West Africa during a major storm, but investigators eventually discover weather had nothing to do with it.