Aircrash Confidential
Every air crash is a catastrophe, leaving behind bereaved families and ruined lives. But each air crash is also a lesson. From each disaster, we have learned how to build safer planes, evacuate passengers with greater speed and improve systems to avoid collisions. Lives have been saved because of what these tragedies have taught us.
- 2011-2018
- 3 seasons
- Discovery Channel
- Documentary
Every air crash is a catastrophe, leaving behind bereaved families and ruined lives. But each air crash is also a lesson. From each disaster, we have learned how to build safer planes, evacuate passengers with greater speed and improve systems to avoid collisions. Lives have been saved because of what these tragedies have taught us.
Season 3 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2018
Episode 1
Incredible Causes
44 mins
In Canada on 12th December 1985, a plane crashed less than 1 mile after take-off. All 256 passengers onboard died, but what caused this aircraft tragedy?
Episode 2
Emergency Landings
44 mins
Landing without power, running out of fuel or birds flying into the engine are all a test of pilot skill and nerve. How do pilots cope with emergency landings?
Episode 3
Instrument Confusion
44 mins
How did a routine landing for a Boeing 777 go so terribly wrong, with three fatalities and many injured - was it a mechanical fault or pilot error?
Episode 4
Disastrous Descents
44 mins
In 1998 the public were promised a first-look at the Airbus A320, a revolutionary airplane. The first commercial fly-by-wire plane crashed - but how and why?
Episode 5
The Nevada Triangle
Thu, Sep 20, 2018 44 mins
A deadly force in the Sierra Nevada mountains has claimed countless lives. What makes this particular area so dangerous for people travelling by air?
Episode 6
Flying Blind
44 mins
Airplane collisions are an incredibly rare but devastating event. With so much free space to manoeuvre and airspace tightly controlled, how do they happen?
