Terror at 30,000 Feet
Terrifying tales of true life airline disasters - all told by the people who were there.
- 2024-2024
- 1 season
- Documentary
Terrifying tales of true life airline disasters - all told by the people who were there.
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2024
Episode 1
BA Flight 2069
Jaw-dropping stories of airline disasters. On a routine flight from Gatwick to Kenya, a passenger enters the cockpit and wrestles with the pilots, pushing the plane into a rapid dive.
Episode 2
Qantas Flight 32
The remarkable, terrifying story of Qantas Flight 32 when, during the London to Sydney flight, the engine explodes and chunks plummet onto the residents below the flight path.
Episode 3
Britannia Airways Flight 226A
The terrifying story of how a flight from Cardiff to the Costa Brava hit an electrical storm. When the runway lights failed, the crew found themselves having to land the flight blind.
Episode 4
M1 Plane Crash
In one of the worst accidents in British aviation history, a commuter flight to Belfast suffers engine failure, diverts to East Midlands Airport - and heads for the M1 motorway.
Episode 5
Mayday
When toxic smoke fills the cabin of a summer holiday flight from Heathrow to Valencia, it's just the start of their problems. Passenger testimony and phone footage chart the disaster.
Episode 6
Flying Pilot
Disaster strikes a flight to Malaga when a front windscreen blows out, sending a freezing wind tearing through the passenger cabin and sucking the pilot's head and body out of the plane.