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Air Crash Investigation Season 13 Episodes
Season 13 Episode Guide
11 Episodes 2013 - 2015
Episode 1
Fight to the Death
44 mins
British Airways flight 548 crashes shortly after take off from London Heathrow airport in 1972. Piecing the clues together one by one, the investigation reveals shocking truth.
Episode 2
Speed Trap
Sun, Feb 15, 201546 mins
An unfortunate mid-air collision in 1971 brings sweeping changes to the ATC system in the USA.
Episode 3
Lost in Translation
Sun, Feb 22, 201544 mins
Crossair flight 498 crashes shortly after take-off from Zurich. The airplane was in good condition and the pilots had adequate training. Or did they? The investigation takes a dramatic turn when the cockpit voice recorder is retrieved.
Episode 4
Disaster on the Potomac
Sun, Mar 1, 201544 mins
After Air Florida flight 90 crashes on take-off from Washington D.C., it is not easy to find the cause of the accident. It turns out eventually that this was no accident but simple and deadly oversight.
Episode 5
Queens Catastrophe
46 mins
American Airlines flight 587 drops out of the sky after take-off from JFK airport in New York and plunges into the Queens suburb. The investigators work hard to determine the cause of this tragedy only to find out that it originated in the cockpit after all.
Episode 6
Into the Eye of the Storm
Sun, Mar 15, 201546 mins
They're called hurricane hunters, research scientists who head straight into killer storms to collect valuable data that will ultimately save lives. In 1989, however, it's the scientists' own lives that are in peril after they enter one of the most violent forces of nature of all time: Hurricane Hugo. Relive their harrowing battle against this category 5 monster and the efforts to keep NOAA 42 in the air as it's ripped apart by a raging storm growing stronger by the minute.
Episode 7
Massacre Over the Mediterranean
Sun, Mar 22, 201546 mins
In 1980, Italian commercial flight Itavia Flight 870 carrying 77 passengers and four crew from Bologna, Italy to Palermo, crashes into the Tyrrhenian Sea. After years of investigations, speculations of a bomb to a stray missile during an air engagement and even accusations of high treason have never yielded a concrete explanation of the plane's demise.
Episode 8
Deadly Test
Sun, Mar 29, 201544 mins
On the 27th November 2008, an aircraft on a post-maintenance test flight operating as XL Airways Germany Flight 888T crashes into the Mediterranean Sea off the French coast, killing all seven people on board. Improper cleaning maintenance allowed water to enter the aircraft's angle of attack sensors. At the flight's high altitude, the water froze and caused the sensors to stop working when the crew put the aircraft into a low-speed stall to test the stall warning system.
Episode 9
Terror in Paradise
45 mins
A popular Twin Otter aircraft crashes shortly after take-off in Tahiti. A bad maintenance decision and a series of other factors combined together create just the right recipe for disaster.
Episode 10
Titanic in the Sky
45 mins
The biggest passenger jet in the world, the A380, suffers a catastrophic in-flight engine failure. With damaged flight controls and leaking fuel, can the crew return to the airport and land safely? And what happens if they do land the overweight and leaking jet?
Episode 11
Getting Out Alive
45 mins
A special showing how people survived certain air crashes and how airline crews are trained to facilitate survival of the passengers.