The TCAS (Traffic Collision Avoidance System) could have saved them - what went wrong?American Airlines Flight 965 from Miami, USA to Cali, Colombia is one of the many delayed flights during the peak holiday season. But as they dig deeper, they make a series of shocking discoveries that will result in calls to transform the country's aviation system.With Brazil's Chapecoense soccer team on board, LaMia Flight 2933 is on its final approach to Medellin, Columbia when the crew suddenly declares a fuel emergency.
His body is plastered to the side of the plane and the plane is diving quickly. All 162 people on board are dead, and an international team of investigators joins local experts in Jakarta to determine what went wrong.
It is the worst accident in Italian aviation history and the investigation uncovers a shocking series of errors. The flight crew desperately tried to keep the plane airborne, but was forced to make a crash landing. Investigators soon come up with a theory to explain the crash.Flight: TAM Airlines Flight 402; Fokker 100; October 31st, 1996. As investigators piece together what happened, they uncover a problem so serious, it sends shock waves through the industry.
Runway 35-L at Congonhas is one of the most treacherous in the world. Tuninter Flight 1153 is flying to the Tunisian resort island of Djerba. At first, investigators suspect a known design flaw in the aircraft's rudder. In the final, chaotic days of the Vietnam War, US President Gerald Ford orders an urgent mission of mercy called 'Operation Babylift'. She watches in shock as the DHL plane becomes the first civilian plane to be struck with a surface-to-air missile since the war in Iraq began.
And when investigators from the Dutch Safety Board pore over the evidence, they determine that a minor circuitry problem sparked a cascading series of fatal errors.An American cargo plane attempts a difficult landing at the US naval station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. It's high above the Mediterranean when suddenly, its right engine fails. 10 nouveaux épisodes ont été commandés pour la saison 20(Vol Northwest Airlines 1482 et vol Northwest Airlines 299) That is, until the pilots hear gunshots in the cabin. But something goes terribly wrong on its final approach, and the DC-8 crashes at the end of the runway. In the final moments of the flight, however, the plane suddenly falls from the sky and crashes into a muddy field just north of the airport. Find out how this disaster resulted in the improvement of on board collision avoidance systems.August 2, 2005 - In a raging thunderstorm, after a difficult landing, Air France 358 skids off the runway in Toronto. But just minutes later, Flight #182 collides with the Cessna and both planes crash into a quiet residential neighborhood below.
As the nation mourns its worst-ever air disaster, investigators face puzzling evidence: The surviving captain of Air China Flight 129 claims that everything on board was normal, but air traffic controllers testify that the crew's radio communications were anything but.Just minutes after taking off from New York's JFK Airport, TWA Flight 800 is ripped apart by a massive explosion. At first, investigators suspect the plane's navigation instruments may have malfunctioned. Welcome to 24kitchen! The windshield has popped off and the captain has been sucked out through the opening. The two wreckage fields are five miles apart. Before air traffic control even has time to clear a path, the plane crashes on the crest of a mountain, killing nearly everyone on board.
The ensuing investigation shows how fear led to a chain of errors, and a catastrophic blunder. Ninety seconds after touching the ground, the plane is engulfed in a ball of fire.
A little over a year later on March 22, 1994 the elite reserve captain of the now routine flight is also a proud father, inviting his son and daughter to visit the cockpit and even allowing the children a few minutes in the captains seat. " The first day of their demanding three-day trip takes them from Zagreb to Tuzla to Dubrovnik. As the crew waits for clearance to climb to their cruising altitude, the plane is hit by a Kazakhstan Airlines jet. Investigators eventually discover the cause is a rare weather phenomena - and a fatal design flaw.By the time the crew of Delta Airlines Flight 191 reached the threshold of Dallas Fort Worth Airport, they'd already diverted around 2 separate storms. The pilots manage to level out the plane but have difficulty controlling the crippled and shaking aircraft. It takes an ingenious experiment to uncover why it happened.When American Airlines Flight 587 crashed into Queens, New York after 9/11, it was considered an act of terror – until evidence proved otherwise.Flight: NOAA 42 Lockheed P-3 Orion A team of hurricane hunters is in a desperate situation after an engine fire cripples their aircraft during a daring flight into Hurricane Hugo. But Pan Am Flight 1736 is still on the runway when KLM Flight 4805 careens toward it.
Flying at 2,000 feet all four men in the cockpit focus their attention on the troublesome bulb. An American spots the smoking wreckage and initiates a rescue operation.