Catastrophic incidents in aviation history are meticulously reenacted, providing insight into what went wrong and if the crashes and near-disasters could have been prevented. Accounts from survivors combine with cockpit recordings and computer images to weave the gripping tales, and expert testimony reveals the hows and whys behind the events, some of which have resulted in important changes to aviation safety and regulations.
Fecha de emisión: 2023-07-30
Duración: 44 min
Sinopsis: American Airlines Flight 77 slams into the Pentagon on America's darkest day of the 21st century. TWA Flight 800 explodes over Long Island minutes after leaving JFK. The supersonic superstar Concorde crashes into an airport hotel after a failed takeoff from Paris. All three air disasters made headline news around the globe, creating media frenzies, igniting conspiracy theories, and putting immense pressure on investigators. In this episode, we revisit these three accidents and follow examiners as they uncover the truth behind the tragedies.
Fecha de emisión: 2023-08-06
Duración: 44 min
Sinopsis: While commercial pilots undergo hundreds of hours of training and testing, even experienced pilots can make deadly rookie errors.
Fecha de emisión: 2023-08-13
Duración: 44 min
Sinopsis: Authorities scramble for answers when a passenger plane collides with a military fighter jet in California, and two commercial planes meet a similar fate decades later in India. Investigators comb through the wreckage of three separate midair collisions in a race to prevent another fatal impact.
Fecha de emisión: 2023-08-20
Duración: 44 min
Sinopsis: When an aircraft loses total engine power, a pilot's training can make all the difference in the world.
Fecha de emisión: 2023-08-27
Duración: 44 min
Sinopsis: Three mysterious accidents send investigators hunting for clues. In the end, all three trails lead back to the same source - the fuel tank.
Fecha de emisión: 2023-09-03
Duración: 44 min
Sinopsis: Three planes fatally out of balance force investigators to question every calculation. It's a flight risk that's entirely preventable, and yet repeated disasters reconfirm the need for critical backup systems.
Fecha de emisión: 2023-09-10
Duración: 44 min
Sinopsis: If pilots aren't prepared when the runway is in sight, a landing can quickly become a tragedy.
Fecha de emisión: 2023-09-17
Duración: 44 min
Sinopsis: Spatial disorientation is one of the leading causes of all air accidents. Even the most experienced pilots are susceptible to its subtle yet deadly effects.
Fecha de emisión: 2023-09-24
Duración: 44 min
Sinopsis: Radio silence between pilots and air traffic controllers can mean many different things, but only the physical evidence can reveal the true story. Three shocking cases send investigators hunting for answers.
Fecha de emisión: 2023-10-01
Duración: 44 min
Sinopsis: When former race car driver Niki Lauda's planes nosedives into a Thai jungle, a one-in-a-million failure reveals a weak spot in every Boeing 767.
Fecha de emisión: 2024-01-07
Duración: 44 min
Sinopsis: Dashcam footage aids in the investigation of a fatal TransAsia crash, experts determine the cause of a botched emergency landing, and a test flight for a revolutionary aircraft turns deadly.
Fecha de emisión: 2024-01-14
Duración: 44 min
Sinopsis: A Boeing 737 vanishes off the radar, a South Korean jet slams into the English countryside moments after takeoff, and an inexperienced crew faces a pileup of errors on a flight over Russia. When critical instruments cause confusion, the consequences can be deadly.
Fecha de emisión: 2024-01-21
Duración: 44 min
Sinopsis: Airplane crashes involving high-profile passengers—including a top diplomat and a Brazilian football team—put investigators under intense pressure to come up with answers.
Fecha de emisión: 2024-01-28
Duración: 44 min
Sinopsis: Traced to a breakdown of vital safety measures, three horrific disasters provoke fundamental changes to airport security procedures around the world.
Fecha de emisión: 2024-02-04
Duración: 44 min
Sinopsis: Following three deadly crashes, investigators uncover dangerous mathematical flaws in the very operations systems designed to prevent aircraft from flying into mountains.
Fecha de emisión: 2024-02-11
Duración: 44 min
Sinopsis: From the wreckage of three airplane crashes, survivors emerge to tell harrowing tales and provide critical data about what to do in an emergency.
Fecha de emisión: 2024-02-18
Duración: 44 min
Sinopsis: Mid-air tragedies are particularly horrifying when they occur over a community, and rain terror on the people below.
Fecha de emisión: 2024-02-25
Duración: 44 min
Sinopsis: Devastating failures in the air put pilots to the test, and shine a light on three astonishing feats of flying.
Fecha de emisión: 2024-06-23
Duración: 44 min
Sinopsis: A trio of crashes reveals that when the nuts and bolts of maintenance go unchecked, it can spell catastrophe.
Fecha de emisión: 2024-06-30
Duración: 44 min
Sinopsis: Three flights ending in tragedy prove that minor missteps during takeoff can have disastrous consequences.
Fecha de emisión: 2024-07-07
Duración: 44 min
Sinopsis: Confused, flying blind, and lost in the dark, three crews lose site of the horizon and fall into the same deadly trap.
Fecha de emisión: 2024-07-14
Duración: 44 min
Sinopsis: Three crews experience the same devastating event; but with radically different outcomes when an engine falls off their commercial airplane.
Fecha de emisión: 2024-07-21
Duración: 44 min
Sinopsis: Faced with a midair crisis, pilots must make a life or death decision, but the wrong approach can trigger a far more serious problem.
Fecha de emisión: 2024-07-28
Duración: 44 min
Sinopsis: In Sao Paolo, the Himalayas, and on the Norwegian coast, the toughest landings on earth pushed three flight crews.
Fecha de emisión: 2024-08-04
Duración: 44 min
Sinopsis: Relying on instinct rather than the rule book, three flights end in tragedy when crews improvise on their final approach.
Fecha de emisión: 2024-08-11
Duración: 44 min
Sinopsis: Three planes are brought down by ice and it's up to investigators to determine how modern aircraft could possibly end up with frozen wings.
Fecha de emisión: 2024-08-18
Duración: 44 min
Sinopsis: Three catastrophic runway collisions raise the same pressing question; a look at how two planes end up on the same runway at the same time.
Fecha de emisión: 2024-08-25
Duración: 44 min
Sinopsis: Three flights end in tragedy after miscommunication mix-ups and personality clashes; Investigators try to unravel what went wrong.
Fecha de emisión: 2024-09-01
Duración: 44 min
Sinopsis: Three last-resort water landings, all handled differently yet each one crucial to improving the outcomes of ditching on open water.
Fecha de emisión: 2024-09-08
Duración: 44 min
Sinopsis: Faced with the extreme conditions of the far North, three flights fall out of the sky leaving investigators to uncover the cause.
