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 16 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 2016 - 2018
Episode 1
Deadly Silence
Sun, Jan 7, 2018 44 mins
When a private Learjet crashes in South Dakota, USA, with star golfer Payne Stewart, investigators are under pressure to figure out how the plane strayed so far off course before crashing.
Episode 2
9/11: The Pentagon Attack
Sun, Jan 14, 2018 44 mins
On 11 September 2001, during the September 11 attacks, American Airlines Flight 77 flies off course and crashes into the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, after being hijacked. All the 64 people on board the aircraft, including the 5 hijackers, are killed, along with 125 people in the building.
Episode 3
Disaster at Tenerife
Sun, Jan 21, 2018 44 mins
On 27 March 1977, the deadliest-ever aviation accident occurs at Los Rodeos Airport (now known as Tenerife-North Airport) in the Canary Islands. KLM Flight 4805 and Pan Am Flight 1736 collide on the runway in thick fog during the KLM aircraft's attempt to take off, killing 583 people.
Episode 4
Deadly Detail
Sun, Jan 28, 2018 47 mins
China Airlines Flight 120 catches fire after the plane has landed, parked and had its engines switched off. An evacuation follows. The pilots must escape from a cockpit window. The blaze all but destroys the aircraft.
Episode 5
Deadly Detour
Sun, Feb 11, 2018 44 mins
Enroute Flight 706 from Lyon to Lorient is knocked out of the sky over Baie de Quiberon France.
Episode 6
Dangerous Approach
Sun, Feb 18, 2018 60 mins
Disaster strikes on way to Durango - La Plata Colorado for commuters.
Episode 7
Murder in the Skies
Sun, Feb 25, 2018 44 mins
On an ordinary day Germanwings flight 9525 has an outcome beyond belief in March 2015 on the French Alps.
Episode 8
River Runway
Sun, Mar 4, 2018 44 mins
After losing both engines and all electrical power in a violent storm, the pilots of Garuda Indonesia Flight 421 manage a remarkable emergency landing.
Episode 9
Deadly Solution
Sun, Mar 11, 2018 44 mins
The captain of Air Asia Flight 8501 overrides the computers instructions and his impromptu fix leads to a deadly stall over the Java Sea.
Episode 10
Afghan Nightmare
Sun, Mar 18, 2018 44 mins
A 747 cargo plane crashes seconds after taking off from a U.S. airfield in Afghanistan, and an overlooked piece of evidence eventually tells investigators they were wrong about the cause.
