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 2 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2005
Episode 1
Blow Out
60 mins
On 10 Jun 1990, a windshield of BA flight 5390 blows out, partially ejecting the captain out of the plane in process. In cockpit, 3 brave crew are clinging to his legs, determined to not let him fall, while the FO is left alone at controls
Episode 2
A Wounded Bird
60 mins
Can a damaged engine bring down a modern multi-engine aircraft? The story of Atlantic Southeast Airlines flight 529.
Episode 3
Hijacked
60 mins
Air France Flight 8969 has been hijacked. How can the authorities deal with the hijackers and save all passengers on-board?
Episode 4
Deadly Crossroads
60 mins
A DHL cargo plane collides with a Russian passenger jet over southern Germany in 2002.
Episode 5
Crash On The Mountain
60 mins
Another proof that a series of small mishaps can amount to one deadly crash. Pilot errors, inoperative ground equipment and arrogance pile on one after another and end in a tragic disaster.
Episode 6
Deadly Delay
51 mins
Can a plane fall out of the sky without a single technical problem on-board? Yet another story of communications break-down resulting in a tragic loss of life.
