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 15 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 2016 - 2017
Episode 1
Fatal Transmission
Sat, Oct 7, 2017 44 mins
A fiery collision between United Express 5925 and a small private plane leaves investigators stumped until they learn that a mysterious missing pilot may have played an unwitting role in the tragedy.
Episode 2
Terror in San Francisco
Sat, Sep 30, 2017 44 mins
Asiana Flight 214 slams into a seawall at San Francisco Airport and investigators suspect a startling mistake may have triggered the crash. But when the full explanation emerges, they confront a controversial issue that could be putting passengers around the world at risk.
Episode 3
High Rise Catastrophe
Sat, Oct 14, 2017 44 mins
On October 4, 1992 a 747 Cargo Jet Leaves Amsterdam's main airport as EL AL flight LY1862. 7 minutes after takeoff, there is an explosion. The aircraft rolls violently to the right and slams into a apartment complex. In total 3 crew, a passenger and 39 people die in the incident. Investigators try to determine what the cause was.
Episode 4
Fatal Delivery
Sat, Oct 28, 2017 44 mins
Shortly after taking off from Dubai, an alarm warns of a fire on board UPS cargo Flight 6. Hoping to stifle the flames, the pilots activate the fire suppression system, but the emergency escalates and the crew must land their massive 747 as quickly as possible. On their way back to the runway, smoke fills the cockpit, blinding the two pilots. And when the captain's oxygen system fails, the first officer suddenly finds himself alone at the controls. Unable to see his instruments let alone outside, he improvises his own emergency procedure. A makeshift yet fragile communication lifeline may be his only hope. But getting the plane safely back to Dubai is a race against time and the odds are stacked against him.
Episode 5
Deadly Mission
Sat, Dec 2, 2017 44 mins
A United Nations DC-6 transport plane is flying a top-secret mission over central Africa with UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld on board. But just moments before touchdown, the plane mysteriously crashes a few miles from the runway. The loss of one of the world's great leaders is met with shock and disbelief. Rhodesian government investigators eventually conclude that pilot error is to blame for the tragedy. Skeptics who believe Hammarskjöld was assassinated dismiss the official findings, and when evidence of an organized attack on Hammarskjöld's plane eventually surfaces 50 years later, a special commission launches a controversial new investigation into the legendary aviation mystery.
Episode 6
Edge of Disaster
Sat, Nov 25, 2017 44 mins
Atlantic Airways Flight 670 is shuttling a group of oil company employees to work. On a routine stop on the tiny Norwegian island of Stord, the plane careens off the runway and down a steep embankment. One engine is still roaring, several exits are blocked, and the plane is engulfed in flames. The sixteen people onboard scramble for their lives. Four die in the inferno. With almost no wreckage left to examine, a mysterious substance found on the runway may hold the key to understanding the cause of the deadly crash.
Episode 7
Deadly Delay
Sat, Nov 11, 2017 44 mins
On 20 August 2008, Spanair Flight 5022 attempts to takeoff from Barajas Airport, but stalls immediately, banks to the right, and crashes, killing 154 people out of the 172 on board. The pilots aborted the first takeoff attempt, and the second one resulted in the crash.
Episode 8
Fatal Focus
Sat, Oct 21, 2017 44 mins
After a short flight from the Indonesian capital, Garuda Flight 200 hits the ground in Yogyakarta so hard it bounces violently before careening off the end of the runway. Of the 133 people on board, 21 are killed. Investigators are under immediate pressure to find out what went wrong. After a series of dead ends, they make an astonishing find about how the plane was configured for landing. And when they analyze the cockpit voice recorder, they reach a startling conclusion.
Episode 9
Steep Impact
Sat, Nov 18, 2017 44 mins
When the crash of a commuter plane in Georgia kills a NASA astronaut, a four-term U.S. senator, and 21 others, the disaster grabs headlines around the world. Investigators soon come up with a theory to explain the crash. There's just one problem-the manufacturer says it's impossible. Gambling on a hunch, one investigator puts his reputation on the line to uncover the startling truth about what brought down Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 2311.
Episode 10
Carnage in Sao Paulo
Sat, Nov 4, 2017 44 mins
On October 31, 1996, TAM Airlines Flight 402 crashed into a suburb in São Paulo, killing all 95 people on board and 4 on the ground. The cause of the crash was due to a failure with the Fokker 100's thrust reverser on its right engine.
