Air Crash Investigations: The Accident Files

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Air Crash Investigations: The Accident Files

Even the most highly trained pilots in the world can be caught out if they ignore their training when it is needed most.

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Season 6
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Three disasters reveal how poor weather threatens a safe landing, with heavy rain, thunderstorms and treacherous crosswinds.
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With all the advances in technology and safety, sometimes a safe flight is still at risk when the data used is incorrect or misleading.
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Pushed to the limits of their training and willpower, three flight crews fight against almost impossible odds to land their crippled aircraft.
Season 5
Pilots are prepared to cope with a range of emergency scenarios, but failures in training can lead to catastrophe in the cockpit.
Season 4
Three last-resort water landings—all handled differently—yet each one crucial to improving the outcomes of ditching on open water.
Three catastrophic runway collisions raise the same pressing question: How could two planes end up on the same runway at the same time?
In Sao Paolo, the Himalayas, and on the Norwegian coast, three flight crews are pushed to the limit by the toughest landings on earth.
Faced with a mid-air crisis, pilots must make life-and-death decisions, but the wrong approach can trigger a far more serious problem.
Three crews experience the same devastating event, but with radically different outcomes when an engine falls off their commercial airplane.
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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