Air Crash Investigation
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.
- 2003-2026
- 26 seasons
- Paramount+
- Documentary, Suspense
- 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.
Season 12 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 2012 - 2014
Episode 1
Fight for Control
Sun, Apr 27, 2014 45 mins
When a propeller departs the engine and causes major damage on Reeve Aleutian Airways flight 8, the experienced crew races to save the airplane and its passengers.
Episode 2
Fire in the Hold
Sun, May 4, 2014 45 mins
When mysterious cargo boxes ignite on ValuJet flight 592, they bring the whole plane down within a short time. The investigator struggle to find out what kind of cargo could possibly cause such fierce fire to bring a whole plane down.
Episode 3
Typhoon Takeoff
Sun, May 11, 2014 45 mins
Should be Season 4 Episode 3 As a typhoon bears down on Taiwan, Singapore Airlines Flight 006 hurtles down the runway through high winds and rain. But before it even leaves the ground, the 747 erupts in a fireball, fed by thousands of gallons of fuel, killing almost half of the passengers.
Episode 4
Pushed to the Limit
Sun, May 18, 2014 45 mins
Should be Season 4 Episode 4 It's a clear and calm December day in 1997 when a Boeing 737 suddenly plummets from the sky into an Indonesian jungle at supersonic speed. All 104 aboard are killed on impact, their bodies lost in the muddy Musi River. Evidence points to a serious mechanical failure, but when the full story of SilkAir Flight 185 is finally revealed.
Episode 5
Blind Landing
45 mins
Pilot arrogance and macho attitude were the official blame of the crash of TANS Perú flight 204 in severe weather.
Episode 6
Grand Canyon Disaster
44 mins
A mid-air collision of two passenger planes over the Grand Canyon shocks 1956 America. Conclusions reached by investigators of this accident will change aviation forever.
Episode 7
Catastrophe at O'Hare
Sun, Jul 20, 2014 45 mins
When American Airlines flight 191 loses its engine and subsequently crashes into a hangar at Chicago O'Hare airport, the investigators shift the blame from a broken bolt to the airlines' unsafe cost-cutting measures.
Episode 8
Focused on Failure
45 mins
When everybody thinks that human error bringing down a modern airliner is no longer possible, the captain of UA173 proves them all wrong.
Episode 9
Locomotiv Hockey Team Disaster
Sun, Aug 3, 2014 44 mins
Contrary to popular belief, the famous Russian hockey team was not killed by a drunken crew. But could just one of the officers on deck with a medical deficiency have caused this disaster? Investigators dig deep.
Episode 10
Death of the President
Sun, Aug 10, 2014 45 mins
The Polish political delegation, including the president, headed to Russia crashes during an approach to landing in Smolensk. Conspiracy theories fly rampant. But could it have been the politicians' self-importance that killed them all?
Episode 11
Heading to Disaster
44 mins
Ethiopian flight 409's crash could not be attributed to any common reason, mechanical, weather-related or even terrorism. However, the most common and most overlooked reason is lurking in the shadows, quiet and deadly as always.
Episode 12
28 Seconds to Survive
44 mins
The ATR twin-turboprop aircraft flying 43 passengers on Santa Bárbara Airlines flight 518, a perfectly good aircraft crashed in the Venezuelan mountains. Series of pilot errors and arrogance are to blame for this preventable tragedy.
Episode 13
Air France 447: Vanished
Sun, Aug 31, 2014 44 mins
Air France flight 447 plunged into the Atlantic Ocean for no good reason. Could it be that the automation systems developed to save lives are the blinding cause of destroying lives in the wrong hands of inexperienced pilots?
