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Season released 26th Jun, 2004.

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Final Hour of Flight 11 Aircrash Confidential Mystery

45 mins  ·  Sat, 26 Jun 2004

Crash of the Century

March 27, 1977 – At 2:00 in the afternoon a thick fog rolled into the usually quiet Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. On the runway sat two fully loaded jumbo airliners, blanketed in fog. A bomb explosion at a nearby airport had re-directed air traffic to the undermanned airfield at Tenerife. Within three hours, a KLM 747 slams into a taxiing PAM 747, killing 583 people. The planes never left the ground.

45 mins  ·  Sun, 13 Aug 2006

Special Report Season 13 : Getting Out Alive

This special looked at how people survive aviation accidents, in part with demonstrations at the Czech Airlines Training Centre. It provided case studies on the following flight: - Asiana Airlines Flight 214 - Air France Flight 358 - Reeve Aleutian Airways Flight 8 - Air Canada Flight 797 - US Airways Flight 1549

45 mins  ·  Fri, 9 May 2014

Special Report Season 18 : Communication Breakdown

This special looked at how failures in communication lead to disasters

45 mins  ·  Mon, 9 Jul 2018

Special Report Season 18 : Bad Attitude

This special looked at how pilots' aggressive or unprofessional behaviour can cause deadly accidents.

45 mins  ·  Mon, 16 Jul 2018

Special Report Season 18 : Hero Pilots

This special looked at how pilots safely land their aircraft in emergency situations.

45 mins  ·  Mon, 23 Jul 2018

Special Report Season 18 : Plane vs. Pilot

This special looked at how automation in the cockpit causes deadly misunderstandings.

45 mins  ·  Mon, 30 Jul 2018

Special Report Season 18 : Explosive Evidence

This special looked at terrorist acts, including bombings and shootdowns.

45 mins  ·  Mon, 6 Aug 2018

Special Report Season 18 : Killer in the Cockpit?

This special looked at pilots' carefully planned strategies in deliberately crashing aircraft.

45 mins  ·  Mon, 13 Aug 2018

Special Report Season 18 : Missing Pieces

This special looked at foreign items, including ice, a chemical oxygen generator, and a bomb as the cause.

45 mins  ·  Mon, 20 Aug 2018

Special Report Season 18 : Controversial Crashes

This special looked at disasters where multiple investigations don't agree on the cause of these accidents.

45 mins  ·  Mon, 27 Aug 2018

Special Report Season 18 : Deadly Distractions

This special looked at how pilots' deviation from cockpit duties lead to crashes.

45 mins  ·  Mon, 3 Sep 2018

Special Report Season 18 : Fire on Board

This special looked at disasters caused by fires, either on the ground or in the air.

45 mins  ·  Mon, 10 Sep 2018

Special Report Season 19 : Headline News

Three devastating crashes make front page news and the media frenzy puts intense pressure to uncover the true cause of these deadly disasters.

45 mins  ·  Sat, 5 Oct 2019

Special Report Season 19 : Rookie Errors

While commercial pilots undergo hundreds of hours of training and testing, even experienced pilots can make deadly rookie errors.

45 mins  ·  Sat, 12 Oct 2019

Special Report Season 19 : Collision Course

Investigators comb through the wreckage of three separate midair collisions in a race to prevent another fatal impact.

45 mins  ·  Sat, 19 Oct 2019

Special Report Season 19 : Engines Out

When an aircraft loses total engine power, a pilot's training can make all the difference in the world.

45 mins  ·  Sat, 26 Oct 2019

Special Report Season 19 : Fuel Trouble

Three mysterious accidents send investigators hunting for clues. In the end, all three trails lead back to the same source - the fuel tank.

45 mins  ·  Sat, 2 Nov 2019

Special Report Season 19 : Perilous Payloads

Three planes fatally out of balance highlight to investigators a flight risk that's entirely preventable, and yet seemingly not stopping.

45 mins  ·  Sat, 9 Nov 2019

Special Report Season 19 : Runway in Sight

If pilots aren't prepared when the runway is in sight, a landing can quickly become a tragedy as evidenced in these three crashes.

45 mins  ·  Sat, 16 Nov 2019

Special Report Season 19 : Deadly Confusion

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.

45 mins  ·  Sat, 23 Nov 2019

Special Report Season 19 : Radio Silence

Radio silence between pilots and controllers can mean many different things, but in these stories, the physical evidence reveals the truth.

45 mins  ·  Sat, 30 Nov 2019

Special Report Season 19 : Design Flaws

Drawing the attention of the entire world, three fatal design flaws put air crash investigators in a storm of controversy.

45 mins  ·  Sat, 7 Dec 2019

Special Report Season 20: Courage in the Cockpit

Devastating systems failures in the air put pilots to the test and shine a light on three astonishing feats of flying, including Qantas Flight 32.

45 mins  ·  Mon, 20 Jul 2020

Special Report Season 20: Death From Above

Mid-air tragedies are particularly horrifying when they occur over a community, and rain terror on the people below.

45 mins  ·  Mon, 27 Jul 2020

Special Report Season 20: VIP on Board

Revisit three crashes involving high-profile passengers and the pressurized investigations into the causes that followed.

45 mins  ·  Mon, 3 Aug 2020

Special Report Season 20: Lapse in Security

These are three horrific air disasters that provoked fundamental changes to airport security and the measures we follow across the world today.

45 mins  ·  Mon, 10 Aug 2020

Special Report Season 20: Mountain Impact

Follow three horrifying crashes that revealed high-tech blind spots in the technology preventing aircraft from ploughing into mountains.

45 mins  ·  Mon, 17 Aug 2020

Special Report Season 20: Survivors

From the wreckage of three airplane crashes, survivors emerge to tell harrowing tales and provide critical data about what to do in an emergency.

45 mins  ·  Mon, 24 Aug 2020

Special Report Season 20: Instrument Confusion

Follow three mid-air tragedies that rained terror on those below when they happened over crowded areas.

45 mins  ·  Mon, 31 Aug 2020

Special Report Season 20: Heat of the Moment

When aviation decisions are made in the heat of the moment, even minor issues can have fatal consequences.

45 mins  ·  Mon, 7 Sep 2020

Special Report Season 20: Maintenance Mistakes

A trio of crashes reveal that when the nuts and bolts of maintenance go unchecked, it can spell catastrophe.

45 mins  ·  Mon, 14 Sep 2020

Special Report Season 20: Take Off Tragedies

Three flights ending in tragedy prove that minor missteps during take-off can have disastrous consequences.

45 mins  ·  Mon, 21 Sep 2020

Special Report: Dead of Night

Confused, flying blind and lost in the dark, three crews lose site of the horizon and fall into the same deadly trap.

45 mins  ·  Sun, 10 Jan 2021

Special Report: Engine Gone

Three crews experience the same devastating event, but with radically different outcomes when an engine falls off their commercial airplane.

45 mins  ·  Sun, 17 Jan 2021

Special Report: Lethal Choices

Faced with a mid-air crisis, pilots must make life-and-death decisions, but the wrong approach can trigger a far more serious problem.

45 mins  ·  Sun, 24 Jan 2021

Special Report: Risky Runways

In Sao Paolo, the Himalayas, and on the Norwegian coast, three flight crews are pushed to the limit by the toughest landings on earth.

45 mins  ·  Sun, 31 Jan 2021

Special Report: Landings Gone Wrong

Relying on instinct rather than the rule book, three flights end in tragedy when crews improvise on their final approach.

45 mins  ·  Sun, 7 Feb 2021

Special Report: Frozen Wings

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.

45 mins  ·  Mon, 8 Feb 2021

Special Report: Runway Collisions

Three catastrophic runway collisions raise the same pressing question: How could two planes end up on the same runway at the same time?

45 mins  ·  Thu, 11 Feb 2021

Special Report: Cockpit Breakdown

Illustrating the deadly consequences of a mismatched crew, three flights end in tragedy, leaving investigators to unravel what went wrong.

45 mins  ·  Fri, 12 Feb 2021

Special Report: Splash Down

Three last-resort water landings-all handled differently-yet each one crucial to improving the outcomes of ditching on open water.

45 mins  ·  Sun, 14 Feb 2021

Special Report: Northern Extremes

Faced with the extreme conditions of the far North, three flights fall out of the sky leaving investigators to uncover the cause.

45 mins  ·  Mon, 15 Feb 2021

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