Air Crash Investigation

Season 25

TV-14

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.

Where to Watch Season 25

11 Episodes

Pacific Ditching (Transair Flight 810)
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Pacific Ditching (Transair Flight 810)The pilots of a crashed cargo jet believe they lost both engines. But when the wreckage emerges from the Pacific, the evidence tells another story.
Running on Empty (Air Tahoma Flight 185)
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Running on Empty (Air Tahoma Flight 185)An Air Tahoma cargo plane is within sight of a Cincinnati runway when both engines flame out and the turboprop crashes into a golf course.
Power Struggle
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Power StrugglePower Struggle: Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 crashed in to the Java Sea after a hard left bank, revealing deadly defects in the investigation that followed.
Second Thoughts (Luxair Flight 9642)
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Second Thoughts (Luxair Flight 9642)Amid heavy fog and a rushed approach, Luxair Flight 50 falls out of the sky just a few miles short of Luxembourg airport.
Powerless Plunge (Loganair Flight 670A)
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Powerless Plunge (Loganair Flight 670A)Just moments after takeoff, a Loganair cargo flight from Edinburgh loses both engines and crashes into the icy North Sea
Cabin Chaos
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Cabin ChaosCabin Chaos: After a Chinese airplane lands at a top-secret US Air Force base, the search is on for the cause of a deadly rollercoaster ride in the sky.
Deadly Climb (Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105)
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Deadly Climb (Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105)It's 1985-the deadliest year in civilian aviation-and a DC-9 commuter plane crashes just seconds after takeoff from Milwaukee.
Firebomber Down
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Firebomber DownFirebomber Down: A C-130 firebomber crashes while battling an epic Australian wildfire. And ATSB investigators must determine the cause within an active fire zone.
Collision Catastrophe (2002 Überlingen mid-air collision)
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Collision Catastrophe (2002 Überlingen mid-air collision)German investigators are stumped when two planes collide while flying in the skies over southern Germany.
Fatal Test Flight (Airborne Express Flight 827)
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Fatal Test Flight (Airborne Express Flight 827)When a cargo plane test flight ends in disaster, investigators uncover a series of failures that doomed the DC-8 before it got off the ground.
No Exit (US Air 1493)
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No Exit (US Air 1493)USAir Flight 1493 collides with SkyWest Airlines Flight 5569 on the runway at LAX, killing 35 people. An air traffic controller mistakenly cleared Flight 1493 to land on a runway where the SkyWest aircraft was waiting to take off.