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This TV series depicts major real-life air disasters. Each episode features a detailed dramatized reconstruction of the incident based on cockpit voice-recorders and air-traffic-control transcripts, as well as eyewitness accounts, interviews with aviation experts, including interviews with investigators who dealt with the disaster, and sometimes even actual footage.

10 Episodes

Fatal Transmission (United Express Flight 5925)
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Fatal Transmission (United Express Flight 5925)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.
Fatal Focus (Garuda Indonesia Flight 200)
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Fatal Focus (Garuda Indonesia Flight 200)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.
Fatal Delivery (UPS Airlines Flight 6)
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Fatal Delivery (UPS Airlines Flight 6)Kort na het opstijgen breekt brand uit in UPS vlucht 6. Rook vult de cockpit, en het vliegtuig veilig terugbrengen is een race tegen de klok.
Terror in San Francisco (Asiana Airlines Flight 214)
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Terror in San Francisco (Asiana Airlines Flight 214)Vlucht 214 van Asiana Airlines crasht op de luchthaven van San Francisco. Onderzoekers ontdekken iets waardoor passagiers mogelijk gevaar lopen.
High Rise Catastrophe (El Al Flight 1862)
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High Rise Catastrophe (El Al Flight 1862)In 1992 crasht vlucht 1862 van Amsterdam naar Tel Aviv. Onderzoekers ontdekken een dodelijk probleem die elke 747 bedreigt.
Steep Impact (Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 2311)
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Steep Impact (Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 2311)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.
Carnage in Sao Paulo (TAM Transportes Aéreos Regionais Flight 402)
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Carnage in Sao Paulo (TAM Transportes Aéreos Regionais Flight 402)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.
Edge of Disaster (Atlantic Airways Flight 670)
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Edge of Disaster (Atlantic Airways Flight 670)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.
Deadly Mission (1961 Ndola United Nations DC-6 crash)
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Deadly Mission (1961 Ndola United Nations DC-6 crash)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.
Deadly Delay (Spanair Flight 5022)
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Deadly Delay (Spanair Flight 5022)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.