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 5 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 2008
Episode 1
Invisible Killer
Wed, May 7, 2008 47 mins
On August 2 1985 a L-1011 Delta Flight 191 to Dallas/Fort Worth Airport crashes due to a micro-burst when it was already at a low altitude. 136 lives are lost. Sweeping changes are made to airport weather radar as a result of this accident.
Episode 2
Behind Closed Doors
Wed, Apr 16, 2008 47 mins
It's one of the most alarming disasters in the history of aviation, not just because of the crash, but why it happened.
Episode 3
Gimli Glider
Wed, May 14, 2008 47 mins
Relive the incredible story of a pilot forced to glide an engineless 767 to safety, from over 26,000 feet in the air.
Episode 4
Dead Weight
Wed, Apr 30, 2008 50 mins
See how two unrelated failures combined to create a fatal catastrophe, and changed the history of small plane travel.
Episode 5
Fanning the Flames
Wed, May 21, 2008 47 mins
When South African Airways Flight 295 caught fire and crashed at sea in 1987, rumors swirled that it was the target of a terrorist attack. Getting to the bottom of this catastrophic mystery meant going to the bottom of the Indian Ocean, an unprecedented recovery operation that took months and cost millions to complete.
Episode 6
Southern Storm
Wed, Apr 23, 2008 47 mins
The crew of a DC-9 find themselves in a violent storm. Rain and baseball-sized hail hammer the aircraft and shatter the windshield. When both engines fail, the pilots must land their plane on a rural Georgia highway, a maneuver that ultimately costs the lives of eighty people.
Episode 7
Explosive Evidence
Wed, Apr 9, 2008 47 mins
A terrorist's bomb blew up Air India Flight 182, but the biggest crime was that it all could have been prevented.
Episode 8
Mixed Signals
Wed, Jun 4, 2008 47 mins
There are many factors affecting an aircraft in flight. Any one of them can bring the plane down. But as the investigation reveals yet again, the most common one is the human factor.
Episode 9
Fatal Distraction
Wed, May 28, 2008 46 mins
In December 1972, people on their way to Miami on Eastern Airlines Flight 401 fail to reach their destination because of a number of minor aircraft faults, which turns into every passengers worst fear, they crash. This is a dramatization of what happened and the investigation into the crash.
Episode 10
Phantom Strike
Wed, Jun 11, 2008 47 mins
How could a multibillion-dollar air traffic control system fail to detect two planes on a collision course? And how did a state-of-the-art business plane fail to alert its pilots to the 737 heading straight for it? The investigation of a 2006 crash over the Amazon Rainforest uncovered a string of technological and human errors.
