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.
Дата выхода: 2023-07-30
Продолжительность: 44 min
Описание: 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.
Дата выхода: 2023-08-06
Продолжительность: 44 min
Описание: While commercial pilots undergo hundreds of hours of training and testing, even experienced pilots can make deadly rookie errors.
Дата выхода: 2023-08-13
Продолжительность: 44 min
Описание: 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.
Дата выхода: 2023-08-20
Продолжительность: 44 min
Описание: When an aircraft loses total engine power, a pilot's training can make all the difference in the world.
Дата выхода: 2023-08-27
Продолжительность: 44 min
Описание: Three mysterious accidents send investigators hunting for clues. In the end, all three trails lead back to the same source - the fuel tank.
Дата выхода: 2023-09-03
Продолжительность: 44 min
Описание: 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.
Дата выхода: 2023-09-10
Продолжительность: 44 min
Описание: If pilots aren't prepared when the runway is in sight, a landing can quickly become a tragedy.
Дата выхода: 2023-09-17
Продолжительность: 44 min
Описание: 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.
Дата выхода: 2023-09-24
Продолжительность: 44 min
Описание: 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.
Дата выхода: 2023-10-01
Продолжительность: 44 min
Описание: 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.
Дата выхода: 2024-01-07
Продолжительность: 44 min
Описание: 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.
Дата выхода: 2024-01-14
Продолжительность: 44 min
Описание: 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.
Дата выхода: 2024-01-21
Продолжительность: 44 min
Описание: 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.
Дата выхода: 2024-01-28
Продолжительность: 44 min
Описание: Traced to a breakdown of vital safety measures, three horrific disasters provoke fundamental changes to airport security procedures around the world.
Дата выхода: 2024-02-04
Продолжительность: 44 min
Описание: Following three deadly crashes, investigators uncover dangerous mathematical flaws in the very operations systems designed to prevent aircraft from flying into mountains.
Дата выхода: 2024-02-11
Продолжительность: 44 min
Описание: From the wreckage of three airplane crashes, survivors emerge to tell harrowing tales and provide critical data about what to do in an emergency.
Дата выхода: 2024-02-18
Продолжительность: 44 min
Описание: Mid-air tragedies are particularly horrifying when they occur over a community, and rain terror on the people below.
Дата выхода: 2024-02-25
Продолжительность: 44 min
Описание: Devastating failures in the air put pilots to the test, and shine a light on three astonishing feats of flying.
Дата выхода: 2024-06-23
Продолжительность: 44 min
Описание: A trio of crashes reveals that when the nuts and bolts of maintenance go unchecked, it can spell catastrophe.
Дата выхода: 2024-06-30
Продолжительность: 44 min
Описание: Three flights ending in tragedy prove that minor missteps during takeoff can have disastrous consequences.
Дата выхода: 2024-07-07
Продолжительность: 44 min
Описание: Confused, flying blind, and lost in the dark, three crews lose site of the horizon and fall into the same deadly trap.
Дата выхода: 2024-07-14
Продолжительность: 44 min
Описание: Three crews experience the same devastating event; but with radically different outcomes when an engine falls off their commercial airplane.
Дата выхода: 2024-07-21
Продолжительность: 44 min
Описание: Faced with a midair crisis, pilots must make a life or death decision, but the wrong approach can trigger a far more serious problem.
Дата выхода: 2024-07-28
Продолжительность: 44 min
Описание: In Sao Paolo, the Himalayas, and on the Norwegian coast, the toughest landings on earth pushed three flight crews.
Дата выхода: 2024-08-04
Продолжительность: 44 min
Описание: Relying on instinct rather than the rule book, three flights end in tragedy when crews improvise on their final approach.
Дата выхода: 2024-08-11
Продолжительность: 44 min
Описание: 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.
Дата выхода: 2024-08-18
Продолжительность: 44 min
Описание: 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.
Дата выхода: 2024-08-25
Продолжительность: 44 min
Описание: Three flights end in tragedy after miscommunication mix-ups and personality clashes; Investigators try to unravel what went wrong.
Дата выхода: 2024-09-01
Продолжительность: 44 min
Описание: Three last-resort water landings, all handled differently yet each one crucial to improving the outcomes of ditching on open water.
Дата выхода: 2024-09-08
Продолжительность: 44 min
Описание: Faced with the extreme conditions of the far North, three flights fall out of the sky leaving investigators to uncover the cause.
