Air Disasters

Season 5 (11 Episodes)

20 Seasons 2015 TV-14 46m 8.8

Harrowing stories of tragedy and triumph are brought to life through official reports, transcripts and interviews with the pilots, air traffic controllers and lucky survivors of history's most terrifying crashes. Widely considered to be the safest form of travel, air transportation is still in its infancy and when midair calamity strikes, the results are often catastrophic. From the cockpit to the cabin, from the control room to the crash scene, we uncover just what went wrong.

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.

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Season 5 Episodes:

Episode 1 Invisible Killer

1. Invisible Killer

Aired: Feb 8, 2015

It's called a microburst, but the havoc it wreaked on Delta Airlines Flight 1...

Episode 2 Behind Closed Doors

2. Behind Closed Doors

Aired: Feb 15, 2015

It's one of the most alarming disasters in the history of aviation, not just ...

Episode 3 Gimli Glider

3. Gimli Glider

Aired: Feb 22, 2015

Relive the incredible story of a pilot forced to glide an engineless 767 to s...

Episode 4 Dead Weight

4. Dead Weight

Aired: Mar 1, 2015

See how two unrelated failures combined to create a fatal catastrophe, and ch...

Episode 5 Fanning the Flames

5. Fanning the Flames

Aired: Mar 8, 2015

To find the cause of the crash of Flight 295, they had to dig deep...3 miles ...

Episode 6 Southern Storm

6. Southern Storm

Aired: Mar 15, 2015

Torrential rain. Baseball-sized hail. Why did Flight 242 enter this severe st...

Episode 7 Explosive Evidence

7. Explosive Evidence

Aired: Mar 22, 2015

A terrorist's bomb blew up Air India Flight 182, but the biggest crime was th...

Episode 8 Mixed Signals

8. Mixed Signals

Aired: Mar 29, 2015

There are many factors affecting an aircraft in flight. Any one of them can b...

Episode 9 Fatal Distraction

9. Fatal Distraction

Aired: Apr 5, 2015

The Eastern Airlines flight 401 crash: the deadliest disaster in U.S. civil a...

Episode 10 Phantom Strike

10. Phantom Strike

Aired: Apr 12, 2015

A business jet on a delivery flight from Brazil to the US is shaken by a mass...

Episode 11 Titanic in the Sky

11. Titanic in the Sky

Aired: Apr 19, 2015

The world's largest commercial airliner is coming apart in midair. Fortunatel...

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Info about Air Disasters

Network: Smithsonian Channel

Genres: Crime, Documentary, History

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