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 - North Sea Nightmare
Release Date: 2021-04-25Enter the cockpit of a high-tech turboprop as its pilots battle to keep their plane from slamming into the North Sea.
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Episode 2 - Playing Catch Up
Release Date: 2021-05-02Witness the final moments of ExecuFlight Flight 1526 and discover why it crashed into a residential neighborhood.
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Episode 3 - Tragic Takeoff
Release Date: 2021-05-09Discover how out-of-date taxi charts and a casual conversation conspired to doom the takeoff of Comair Flight 5191.
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Episode 4 - Grounded: Boeing Max 8
Release Date: 2021-05-16Follow investigators as they race to find out why a best-selling, new plane crashed into the sea shortly after takeoff.
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Episode 5 - Cabin Catastrophe
Release Date: 2021-05-23Relive the 2018 disaster of Southwest Airlines 1380, in which a passenger was nearly sucked from the plane mid-flight.
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Episode 6 - Meltdown Over Kathmandu
Release Date: 2021-05-30Witness the Kathmandu crash of US-Bangla 211 and follow detectives as they investigate both the plane and the pilots.
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Episode 7 - Mission Disaster
Release Date: 2021-06-06A plane loses control during a Gulf War refueling mission and investigators must determine if enemy fire was the cause.
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Episode 8 - Caught in a Jam
Release Date: 2021-06-13A commuter flight in New Zealand turns horrific for plane crash survivors, who may freeze to death before help arrives.
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Episode 9 - Seconds from Touchdown
Release Date: 2021-06-20Just 12 minutes after takeoff, a twin turboprop loses hydraulics, an engine, and then catches fire. Find out why.
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Episode 10 - Deadly Delivery
Release Date: 2021-06-27A last-minute repair may have played a key role in the crash of a plane leaving Madrid International Airport.