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Black Box Season 1 Episodes

  • 1996-1998
  • 2 Seasons
  • Documentary, Reality
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Black Box deals with the one aspect of air travel that we would rather not think about, which is crashing. It is a focus on air safety, and why, ironically, it is no accident. It also describes the role of the air accident investigator, which is firstly, to deduce how the accident happened, and then to make procedural and dynamical recommendations for action based on these conclusions.

Season 1 Episode Guide

Season 1

4 Episodes 1996 - 1996

Episode 1

Deadly Weather

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Episode 2

Crash Detectives

Black Box focuses on the investigation teams at two crash sites; the TWA 800 which exploded in mid-flight this summer and the Valujet crash, where cameras follow the team into the alligator-infested swampland. There is also a look at the troubled history of Britain's Comet, the world's first jet passenger aircraft.

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Episode 3

A Wing and a Prayer

The third programme in the series on air disasters examines the deadly effects of tiny flaws in ground maintenance. Examples cited are a Japanese 747 which took over half an hour to fall to earth killing five hundred and twenty passengers in 1985 and a DC10 which crashed whilst trying to land at Sioux City Airport killing one hundred people.

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Episode 4

Blaming the Pilot

Human error is blamed for two thirds of all air accidents. Look at pilot problems that have resulted in fatal errors of judgment.

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