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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.
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Checked Jul 22, 2026
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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.
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Episode 1
Shortly after leaving London Heathrow airport in December 1988, Pan Am flight 103 exploded above Lockerbie , Scotland killing 270 people. Investigators soon discovered that a bomb in the forward cargo compartment had taken down the plane.
Directed by George D'AmatoWritten by Larry BambrickGuest stars Thomas Mitchell, Richard Nash, Clyde Whitham, Jerome Bourgault, Steve Adams, Lukas Penar, David Rosser, Shahram Shahbazi
Episode 2
Find out what went wrong when a Kazakhstan Airlines jet and a Saudi Airways plane collided in the worst mid-air crash in aviation history, killing 349 people on November 12, 1996.
Directed by James HyslopWritten by Christopher BlowGuest stars Ash Knight, Saad Siddiqui, Elie Gemael, Christian McKenna, Bsn Rau, Sam Moses, Brad Siciliano, Vladimir Radian
Episode 3
Rescuers have to look to the past to solve the riddle of Flight 611, a China Airlines 747 that disappeared 20 minutes after taking off.
Directed by Ian RobertsonWritten by Alex BystramGuest stars Henry Chan, Ho Chow, Richard Tse, Gary Biggar, Kylanna Lee, Warren Chow, Marjorie Chan, Norman Chan
Episode 4
On September 8, 1989, Partnair Flight 394, a charter from Oslo to Hamburg, suddenly begins to dive from 22 thousand feet. The aging propeller plane eventually crashes into the sea, killing all 55 people on board.
Directed by Su RynardWritten by Carl KnutsonGuest stars Hardee T. Lineham, Laurie Murdoch, Brett Reason, James Purcell, J. Craig Sandy, Paul Hubbard
Episode 5
Near the close of the Vietnam War, the United States launched Operation Babylift, a mass evacuation of children from war torn Vietnam. On April 4th 1975, the first Babylift flight ended in tragedy when a Lockheed C-5 Galaxy carrying 314 passengers crashed during an emergency landing at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, South Vietnam killing 138.
Directed by Tim WolochatiukWritten by Larry BambrickGuest stars James Byron, Peter Pasyk, Marcel St. Pierre, Sarah Slywchuk, Jeanie Calleja, Caden Douglas, Adrian Proszowski
Episode 6
On 6 August 2005, Tuninter Flight 1153 runs out of fuel and ditches into the Mediterranean Sea, killing 16 people. It ran out of fuel because a fuel gauge for a different type of aircraft had been installed, misleading the crew about how much fuel was on board.
Directed by Ian RobertsonWritten by Michael SheehanGuest stars Jeff Seymour, Asim Wali, Ric Garcia, Bruno Talotta, Domenic Tundino, Anousha Alamian, Peter Didiano
Episode 7
On January 1st 2007, a Boeing 737-400 crashed into the Makassar Strait near Polewali in Sulawesi. The subsequent investigation raised deep concerns about the safety record of the Indonesian airline industry.
Directed by Karl JasonWritten by Jeff SturgeGuest stars Jason Weinberg, Gerry Mendicino, Leon Aureus, Isai Rivera Blas, Daniel Junghuan Park
Episode 8
On 31 October 1994, American Eagle Flight 4184 falls out of the sky, killing all 68 people on board. The crash was caused by ice developing on the wing in a manner that the on-board deicing system could not remove.
Directed by George D'AmatoWritten by Greg GransdenGuest stars Kieran Gallant, George Tchortov, Lesley Faulkner, Brendan Wall, James Arnold, Tamsen McDonough, Aaron Phypers, Christopher Goddard
Episode information updated Jul 24, 2026
Stephen BogaertSelf - Narrator (voice)
Ken PakASC Investigator
Daniel FalkAir Traffic Controller
Darrin BakerNTSB Investigator John DeLisi
Dan MacKayJim Caruso
Redd OchoaNTSC Investigator
Neil GirvanFlight Director
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