Air Crash Investigation
Air Crash Investigation , also known as Mayday: Air Disasters, is a Canadian production that airs in several countries. In the USA, some episodes are shown in the block called Air Emergency. Air Crash Investigation recreates the greatest air disasters of history and explains exactly what happened. To recreate the disasters, they use dramatic re-enactments of the cockpit and plane. The show also uses excellent 3D animation that recreates everything that happens "outside" of the airplane. Expert pilots and engineers explain what happened: the mistakes of the crew, the bad maintenance and more.
Genre: Documentary, Special Interest
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Episode 11
Head-On Collision
aired: Wed, Nov 21, 2007
Episode 10
African Hijack
aired: Tue, Mar 21, 2006
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961, heading from Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) to Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire route) passing through Nairobi (Kenya) Brazzaville (Republic of the Congo) and Lagos (Nigeria) -. Plane: Boeing 767-260ER. On 23 November 1996, during the flight, the plane was hijacked by 3 men. The men demanded the plane to be flown to Australia, which was very far from there. When the plane was getting closer to Comoros Islands, it began to run out of fuel. The captain tried an emergency landing at Grande Comore, but ran out of fuel before landing. What did exactly happen?
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Episode 7
Death and Denial
aired: Tue, Feb 21, 2006
Egypt Air flight 990, heading from Los Angeles (California, USA) to Cairo International Airport (Cairo, Egypt) with a stop over planned on JFK International Airport (New York, USA). Plane: Boeing 767-300 ER On October 31, 1999, the plane dove into the Atlantic Ocean, about 60 miles south of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. The cockpit record proves that the copilot Gameel Al-Batouti deliberately crashed the plane. In this episode are explored the causes of this accident and what did the other pilot do to save the plane. It's also investigated if they misunderstood when Al-Batouti said, and what causes led him to crash the plane into the ocean if he really wanted to do it.
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Episode 6
Mistaken Identity
aired: Tue, Feb 21, 2006
Iran Air flight 655, from Bandar Abbas. Plane: Airbus A300B2. On July 3, 1988, during the flight, the USS Vincennes, a military ship that was in the middle of a combat, detected the plane with its sophisticated radar. They tried to contact the crew several times to ask them about their intention. After some minutes without a response, they shot the plane. In this episode are explored the causes of this lethal mistake.
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Episode 5
Hanging by a Thread
aired: Wed, Feb 8, 2006
Aloha Airlines flight 243 heading from Hilo to Honolulu (Hawaii). Plane: Boeing 737-200 On April 28, 1988, during the flight, the plane suddenly experiences an explosive decompression just behind the cockpit. The explosion inflicted great damage to the plane, and the cockpit is almost "hanging by a thread". The only thing that keeps it attached to the plane is the airplane's floor. After the decompression the passengers aren't sure if the pilots are alive, but luckily they are. In this episode are explored the causes for this decompression and what the crew did to keep the plane flying and land it safely.
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Episode 4
Fight For Your Life
aired: Tue, Feb 7, 2006
FedEx flight 705. Plane: MD DC-10-30 On April 7, 1994, Auburn Calloway, a FedEx employee hijacked the flight 705. He tried to crash the plane in FedEx HQ, in Memphis, Tennessee, and disguise it as an accident so that his family would benefit from his life insurance policy. In this episode are explored in detail the reasons for hijacking an crashing the plane. Is explained what did the crew do to save the plane, and try to land it, or at least avoid crashing an important city and have less victims.
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Episode 3
Attack over Baghdad
aired: Tue, Feb 7, 2006
DHL courier flight, heading from Baghdad to Bahrain. Plane: Cargo Airbus A300 On November 22, 2003, terrorist fire a missile to a DHL plane on a routine mail drop to Baghdad. The left wing is seriously damaged and the steering system is completely destroyed. In this episode are explored the amazing actions of the crew to save the plane, and even shows a record taken by an USA army helicopter.
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Episode 2
Out of Control
aired: Mon, Feb 6, 2006
Japan Airlines (JAL) flight 123, heading from Haneda International Airport (Tokyo) to Itami International Airport (Osaka). Plane: Boeing 747 On Monday August 12, 1985, minutes after taking off, the plane experiences an explosive decompression. The crew believes that the decompression was caused by the opening of a cargo door. Whatever happened, the plane is out of control, it can't turn left or right. What happened?
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Kid in the Cockpit
aired: Mon, Feb 6, 2006
Aeroflot Flight 593, heading from Moscow (Russia) to Hong Kong (China). Plane: Airbus A310-300. On March 23, 1994, (the cockpit recorder reveals) that the captain's 15 years old son had been at the controls at the time that the plane crashed on Siberia. Furthermore, seems that he caused the disaster. In this episodes is explored why did the captain's son take the controls, and exactly why did the plane crash.
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