Episodes 52

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Crash of the Century

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August 13, 200645m

March 27, 1977 – At 2:00 in the afternoon a thick fog rolled into the usually quiet Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. On the runway sat two fully loaded jumbo airliners, blanketed in fog. A bomb explosion at a nearby airport had re-directed air traffic to the undermanned airfield at Tenerife. Within three hours, a KLM 747 slams into a taxiing PAM 747, killing 583 people. The planes never left the ground.

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This special looked at how people survive aviation accidents, in part with demonstrations at the Czech Airlines Training Centre. It provided case studies on the following flight: - Asiana Airlines Flight 214 - Air France Flight 358 - Reeve Aleutian Airways Flight 8 - Air Canada Flight 797 - US Airways Flight 1549

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This special looked at how failures in communication lead to disasters

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Special Report Season 18 : Bad Attitude

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July 16, 201845m

This special looked at how pilots' aggressive or unprofessional behaviour can cause deadly accidents.

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Special Report Season 18 : Hero Pilots

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July 23, 201845m

This special looked at how pilots safely land their aircraft in emergency situations.

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This special looked at how automation in the cockpit causes deadly misunderstandings.

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This special looked at terrorist acts, including bombings and shootdowns.

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This special looked at pilots' carefully planned strategies in deliberately crashing aircraft.

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Special Report Season 18 : Missing Pieces

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August 20, 201845m

This special looked at foreign items, including ice, a chemical oxygen generator, and a bomb as the cause.

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This special looked at disasters where multiple investigations don't agree on the cause of these accidents.

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Special Report Season 18 : Deadly Distractions

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September 3, 201845m

This special looked at how pilots' deviation from cockpit duties lead to crashes.

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Special Report Season 18 : Fire on Board

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September 10, 201845m

This special looked at disasters caused by fires, either on the ground or in the air.

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Special Report Season 19 : Headline News

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October 5, 201945m

Three devastating crashes make front page news and the media frenzy puts intense pressure to uncover the true cause of these deadly disasters.

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Special Report Season 19 : Rookie Errors

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October 12, 201945m

While commercial pilots undergo hundreds of hours of training and testing, even experienced pilots can make deadly rookie errors.

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Special Report Season 19 : Collision Course

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October 19, 201945m

Investigators comb through the wreckage of three separate midair collisions in a race to prevent another fatal impact.

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Special Report Season 19 : Engines Out

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October 26, 201945m

When an aircraft loses total engine power, a pilot's training can make all the difference in the world.

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Special Report Season 19 : Fuel Trouble

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November 2, 201945m

Three mysterious accidents send investigators hunting for clues. In the end, all three trails lead back to the same source - the fuel tank.

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Special Report Season 19 : Perilous Payloads

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November 9, 201945m

Three planes fatally out of balance highlight to investigators a flight risk that's entirely preventable, and yet seemingly not stopping.

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Special Report Season 19 : Runway in Sight

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November 16, 201945m

If pilots aren't prepared when the runway is in sight, a landing can quickly become a tragedy as evidenced in these three crashes.

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Special Report Season 19 : Deadly Confusion

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November 23, 201945m

Spatial disorientation is one of the leading causes of all air accidents. Even the most experienced pilots are susceptible to its subtle yet deadly effects.

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Special Report Season 19 : Radio Silence

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November 30, 201945m

Radio silence between pilots and controllers can mean many different things, but in these stories, the physical evidence reveals the truth.

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Special Report Season 19 : Design Flaws

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December 7, 201945m

Drawing the attention of the entire world, three fatal design flaws put air crash investigators in a storm of controversy.

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Devastating systems failures in the air put pilots to the test and shine a light on three astonishing feats of flying, including Qantas Flight 32.

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Mid-air tragedies are particularly horrifying when they occur over a community, and rain terror on the people below.

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Special Report Season 20: VIP on Board

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August 3, 202045m

Revisit three crashes involving high-profile passengers and the pressurized investigations into the causes that followed.

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Special Report Season 20: Lapse in Security

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August 10, 202045m

These are three horrific air disasters that provoked fundamental changes to airport security and the measures we follow across the world today.

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Special Report Season 20: Mountain Impact

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August 17, 202045m

Follow three horrifying crashes that revealed high-tech blind spots in the technology preventing aircraft from ploughing into mountains.

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Special Report Season 20: Survivors

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August 24, 202045m

From the wreckage of three airplane crashes, survivors emerge to tell harrowing tales and provide critical data about what to do in an emergency.

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Follow three mid-air tragedies that rained terror on those below when they happened over crowded areas.

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Special Report Season 20: Heat of the Moment

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September 7, 202045m

When aviation decisions are made in the heat of the moment, even minor issues can have fatal consequences.

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Special Report Season 20: Maintenance Mistakes

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September 14, 202045m

A trio of crashes reveal that when the nuts and bolts of maintenance go unchecked, it can spell catastrophe.

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Special Report Season 20: Take Off Tragedies

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September 21, 202045m

Three flights ending in tragedy prove that minor missteps during take-off can have disastrous consequences.

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Special Report: Dead of Night

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January 10, 202145m

Confused, flying blind and lost in the dark, three crews lose site of the horizon and fall into the same deadly trap.

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Special Report: Engine Gone

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January 17, 202145m

Three crews experience the same devastating event, but with radically different outcomes when an engine falls off their commercial airplane.

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Special Report: Lethal Choices

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January 24, 202145m

Faced with a mid-air crisis, pilots must make life-and-death decisions, but the wrong approach can trigger a far more serious problem.

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Special Report: Risky Runways

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January 31, 202145m

In Sao Paolo, the Himalayas, and on the Norwegian coast, three flight crews are pushed to the limit by the toughest landings on earth.

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Special Report: Landings Gone Wrong

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February 7, 202145m

Relying on instinct rather than the rule book, three flights end in tragedy when crews improvise on their final approach.

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Special Report: Frozen Wings

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February 8, 202145m

Three planes are brought down by ice, and it's up to investigators to determine how modern aircraft could possibly end up with frozen wings.

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Special Report: Runway Collisions

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February 11, 202145m

Three catastrophic runway collisions raise the same pressing question: How could two planes end up on the same runway at the same time?

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Special Report: Cockpit Breakdown

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February 12, 202145m

Illustrating the deadly consequences of a mismatched crew, three flights end in tragedy, leaving investigators to unravel what went wrong.

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Special Report: Splash Down

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February 14, 202145m

Three last-resort water landings-all handled differently-yet each one crucial to improving the outcomes of ditching on open water.

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Special Report: Northern Extremes

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February 15, 202145m

Faced with the extreme conditions of the far North, three flights fall out of the sky leaving investigators to uncover the cause.

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Episode 44

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September 12, 2022

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Episode 45

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September 19, 2022

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Episode 46

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September 26, 2022

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Episode 47

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October 3, 2022

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Episode 48

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October 10, 2022

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Episode 49

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October 17, 2022

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Episode 50

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October 24, 2022

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Episode 51

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October 31, 2022

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Episode 52

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November 7, 2022

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