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Season 7

8 episodes · 2009

  1. 1

    Lockerbie Disaster (Pan Am 103)

    Nov 4, 200945 min★ 7.9

    Shortly after leaving London Heathrow airport in December 1988, Pan Am flight 103 exploded above Lockerbie , Scotland killing 270 people. Investigators soon discovered that a bomb in the forward cargo compartment had taken down the plane.

  2. 2

    Sight Unseen (1996 Charki Dadri mid-air collision)

    Nov 11, 200945 min★ 8.2

    Find out what went wrong when a Kazakhstan Airlines jet and a Saudi Airways plane collided in the worst mid-air crash in aviation history, killing 349 people on November 12, 1996.

  3. 3

    Scratching the Surface (China Airlines Flight 611)

    Nov 18, 200945 min★ 7.9

    Rescuers have to look to the past to solve the riddle of Flight 611, a China Airlines 747 that disappeared 20 minutes after taking off.

  4. 4

    Blown Apart (Partnair Flight 394)

    Nov 25, 200945 min★ 7.8

    On September 8, 1989, Partnair Flight 394, a charter from Oslo to Hamburg, suddenly begins to dive from 22 thousand feet. The aging propeller plane eventually crashes into the sea, killing all 55 people on board.

  5. 5

    Operation Babylift (1975 Tan Son Nhut C-5 accident)

    Dec 2, 200945 min★ 7.7

    Near the close of the Vietnam War, the United States launched Operation Babylift, a mass evacuation of children from war torn Vietnam. On April 4th 1975, the first Babylift flight ended in tragedy when a Lockheed C-5 Galaxy carrying 314 passengers crashed during an emergency landing at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, South Vietnam killing 138.

  6. 6

    Falling Fast (Tuninter Flight 1153)

    Dec 9, 200945 min★ 7.7

    On 6 August 2005, Tuninter Flight 1153 runs out of fuel and ditches into the Mediterranean Sea, killing 16 people. It ran out of fuel because a fuel gauge for a different type of aircraft had been installed, misleading the crew about how much fuel was on board.

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    Flight 574 Lost (Adam Air Flight 574)

    Dec 16, 200945 min★ 7.6

    On January 1st 2007, a Boeing 737-400 crashed into the Makassar Strait near Polewali in Sulawesi. The subsequent investigation raised deep concerns about the safety record of the Indonesian airline industry.

  8. 8

    Frozen in Flight (American Eagle Flight 4184)

    Dec 16, 200945 min★ 7.9

    On 31 October 1994, American Eagle Flight 4184 falls out of the sky, killing all 68 people on board. The crash was caused by ice developing on the wing in a manner that the on-board deicing system could not remove.