Major real-life air disasters are depicted in this series. Each episode features a detailed dramatized reconstruction of the incident based on cockpit voice recorders and air traffic control transcripts, as well as eyewitnesses recounts and interviews with aviation experts.
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Major real-life air disasters are depicted in this series. Each episode features a detailed dramatized reconstruction of the incident based on cockpit voice recorders and air traffic control transcripts, as well as eyewitnesses recounts and interviews with aviation experts.
Season 15 episodes
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On 19 November 1996, United Express Flight 5925, operating for Great Lakes Airlines, lands at Quincy Regional Airport and collides with a light aircraft taking off from an intersecting runway. All 14 occupants on both aircraft were killed in a subsequent fire.
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Directed by Tim WolochatiukWritten by Julia NunesGuest stars Joanne Boland, Benjamin Muir, Thomas Hauff, Morgan Davidoff, Jay T. Shramek, Luke Marty, Matt Bois, Christian Lloyd
On 7 March 2007, while landing at Yogyakarta at the end of a routine domestic flight from Jakarta, Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 hits the ground so hard that it bounces violently before running off the end of the runway, killing 21 of the 140 people on board.
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Directed by Tim WolochatiukWritten by Greg BeerGuest stars Ho Chow, Leon Aureus, Jonathan Whittaker, Daniel Junghuan Park, Thom Vernon, Daley Blake Smith, Minh Ly
On 3 September 2010, the pilots of UPS Airlines Flight 6 report a fire and declare an emergency shortly after taking off from Dubai International Airport. The crew tries to land back at the airport, but are unsuccessful. The aircraft flies over the airport and crashes into an unpopulated area nearby. Both of the pilots die.
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Directed by Tim WolochatiukWritten by Julia NunesGuest stars Jonathan Purdon, Jerry Rector, Cody Ray Thompson, Randy Thomas, Barry Greene, Omar Alex Khan, Greg Campbell
Terror in San Francisco (Asiana Airlines Flight 214)
45m7.5 / 10
On 6 July 2013, on landing at San Francisco International Airport, Asiana Airlines Flight 214 strikes a seawall and crashes short of the runway. Of the 307 people on board, 2 passengers die at the crash scene; another dies shortly after in hospital.
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Directed by Tim WolochatiukWritten by Alix MacDonaldGuest stars Dale Yim, George Chiang, Randy Thomas, Chris Gillett, Matthew Gorman, Matt Wells, Nicolas Van Burek, Esther Jun
On 4 October 1992, after taking off from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, El Al Flight 1862 declares an emergency. The crew do their best to make an emergency landing, but the 747 cargo jet rolls violently to the right and crashes into an apartment complex, killing 43 people. The two engines on the right wing had separated from the aircraft, causing the loss of control.
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Directed by Tim WolochatiukWritten by Douglas CrosbieGuest stars Judah Katz, Eric Fink, Mark Huisman, Todd Campbell, Anders Yates, Alireza Shojaei, Robert Benzon
On 5 April 1991, Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 2311 from Atlanta suddenly nose-dives into the ground while on landing approach to Glynco Jetport, killing all 23 people on board, including US Senator John Tower and astronaut Sonny Carter. The accident was caused by a malfunction of the left engine propeller control unit.
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Directed by Tim WolochatiukWritten by Andrew KaufmanGuest stars Geoffrey Pounsett, Jonathan Goldapple, Danny Deakin, Aaron Michael Reilly, Paulo Raposo, Lars Classington, Tom Haueter
Carnage in Sao Paulo (TAM Transportes Aéreos Regionais Flight 402)
45m8.0 / 10
On 31 October 1996, TAM Transportes Aéreos Regionais Flight 402 crashes seconds after takeoff from São Paulo–Congonhas Airport into a heavily populated residential area, killing all 96 people on board and 3 on the ground. The crash was attributed to the uncommanded deployment of a faulty thrust reverser on the right engine.
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Directed by Tim WolochatiukWritten by Julia NunesGuest stars Joseph Di Mambro, Jonathan Sousa, Daniel Della Penna, Rosalba Martinni, Aviva Armour-Ostroff, Jerrold Karch, Aidan Desalaiz, Davide D'Izzia
On 10 October 2006, Atlantic Airways Flight 670 lands at Stord Airport, but the aircraft overruns the runway and crashes after careening off a steep embankment. Four of the sixteen people on board are killed. The causes of the crash were a malfunction of the aircraft's spoilers and hydroplaning.
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Directed by Tim WolochatiukWritten by Phil DesjardinsGuest stars Dave Lapsley, Douglas Nyback, David Patrick Green, Craig Burnatowski, Andy Pogson, Kirk Wood
Deadly Mission (1961 Ndola United Nations DC-6 crash)
45m7.0 / 10
On 18 September 1961, a Douglas DC-6 operated by Transair Sweden, carrying Dag Hammarskjöld, the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, crashes en route to cease-fire negotiations in Northern Rhodesia during the Congo Crisis. All of the 16 passengers and crew members are killed.
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Directed by Tim WolochatiukWritten by Alex BystramGuest stars Ryan Hollyman, Adrian Spencer, Pascale Longdale, Jonathan Eliot, Gavin Williams, Peter James Howarth, Greg Hovanessian
On 20 August 2008, Spanair Flight 5022 attempts to takeoff from Barajas Airport, but stalls immediately, banks to the right and crashes, killing 154 people out of the 172 on board. The pilots aborted the first takeoff attempt, and the second attempt resulted in the crash.
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Directed by Tim WolochatiukWritten by Julia NunesGuest stars Jorge Molina, Julian Raimondo, Alex Karzis, Alexos Andros, Patricia Vanstone, José Arias, Dalton Derek
