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 25 Episode Guide
11 Episodes 2025
Episode 1
Pacific Ditching
60 mins
The pilots of a crashed cargo jet believe they lost both engines. But when the wreckage emerges from the Pacific, the evidence tells another story.
Episode 2
Running on Empty
60 mins
An Air Tahoma cargo plane is within sight of a Cincinnati runway when both engines flame out and the turboprop crashes into a golf course.
Episode 3
Power Struggle
60 mins
In Indonesia-the deadliest aviation market in the world-a Boeing 737 spirals out of the sky and nosedives into the Java Sea.
Episode 4
Second Thoughts
60 mins
Amid heavy fog and a rushed approach, Luxair Flight 50 falls out of the sky just a few miles short of Luxembourg airport.
Episode 5
Powerless Plunge
60 mins
Just moments after takeoff, a Loganair cargo flight from Edinburgh loses both engines and crashes into the icy North Sea.
Episode 6
Cabin Chaos
60 mins
After a Chinese airplane lands at a top-secret US Air Force base, the search is on for the cause of a deadly rollercoaster ride in the sky.
Episode 7
Deadly Climb
60 mins
It's 1985 - the deadliest year in civilian aviation - and a DC-9 commuter plane crashes just seconds after takeoff from Milwaukee.
Episode 8
Firebomber Down
60 mins
A C-130 firebomber crashes while battling an epic Australian wildfire. And ATSB investigators must determine the cause-within an active fire zone.
Episode 9
Collision Catastrophe
60 mins
German investigators are stumped when two planes collide while flying in the skies over southern Germany.
Episode 10
Fatal Test Flight
60 mins
When a cargo plane test flight ends in disaster, investigators uncover a series of failures that doomed the DC-8 before it got off the ground.
Episode 11
Surviving Disaster: No Exit
60 mins
USAir Flight 1493 collides with SkyWest Airlines Flight 5569 on the runway at LAX, killing 35 people. An air traffic controller mistakenly cleared Flight 1493 to land on a runway where the SkyWest aircraft was waiting to take off.