Mayday

Investigators continue to examine the ruins and document findings.

Während eines Demonstrationsfluges knallt ein brandneuer russischer Superjet in einen Berg südlich von Jakarta. Der Stimmenrekorder wird gefunden und ausgewertet. (Reenactment)

Ermittler an der Unglücksstelle in der schwedischen Arktis. Das Flugzeug schlug mit einer Geschwindigkeit von mehr als 950 km/hauf dem Boden auf. Übrig bleiben nur die Trümmer der Cargo-Maschine.

Air accident investigator, John Delisi (played by Darrin Baker) looks through the Captain's files. (photo credit: Cineflix/Darren Goldstein)

Bildunterschrift: Am Tag des Unglücks war es auf dem Flughafen ziemlich neblig. Ein Ermittler versucht nachzuvollziehen, welche Sicht der Fluglotse aus dem Tower hatte.

Air accident investigator, John Delisi (played by Darrin Baker) discovers a complaint report against the Captain. (photo credit: Cineflix/Darren Goldstein)

Dramatic Reenactment: A test pilot runs the same flight path as Arrow Air Flight 1285. The flight crashed shortly after lifting off the runway at Gander International Airport on December 11, 1985. Canadian Investigator David McNair (played by Richard Quesnel), wants to know the effects of adding ice to the wings and extra weight in the cabin. The results confirm his suspicions about the accident, the simulation results in a crash.

Enquête, reconstitution

On May 11, 1996, ValuJet Airlines Flight 592 crashes into the Florida Everglades, 27 kilometers (17 miles) northwest of Miami International Airport. The DC-9 was carrying 110 passengers and crew for Atlanta, Georgia. Shortly after lifting off a fierce fire erupted on board, crippling the plane. The crew attempted to return to Miami, but crashed into a remote part of the Florida Everglades. When rescuers arrive on the scene they find almost no aircraft debris, but do find some personal effects floating in the remote swamp.

Was führte zum Absturz des Fluges 173 der United Airlines? Die Ermittler erhoffen sich wichtige Erkenntnisse bei der Auswertung des Flugdatenschreibers.

Reenactment: A New Orleans Air Traffic Controller (played by Craig Lauzon) helps guide TACA Flight 110 to a safe landing after the pilots report that both of the engines on their 737 have flamed out during a violent thunderstrom. The controller offers alternative airports, and points out a highway right ahead of the crippled jetliner. In the end the pilots chose to put the plane down on one of New Orlean's levees. They are hailed as heroes for executing the emergency landing without seriously injuring any of the 38 passengers or 7 crew-members on board the flight.

The pilots try to straighten Copa Airlines flight 201. (Computer generated image)

On April 15, 2002, a Boeing 767 connecting Beijing to Gimhae, in South Korea, crashed into a hill a few kilometers from the airport: the investigation proved difficult.

On June 30, 1956 two planes, a DC-7 bound for Chicago and a L-1049 Super-Constellation headed for Kansas City collided in mid-air over the Garnd Canyon. The accident has unnerved the flying public, and now Jack Parshall (played by Michael Copeman) and another C.A.B. Investigator (played by Byron Rouse) must study whatever small pieces of wreckage they've been able to recover to determine what went wrong in this historic accident that lead to a massive overhaul of the Air Traffic Control in the USA.

Scandinavin Airlines Flight 686 veers off track after hitting another aircraft towards an airplane hanger.

Sid Hawkins (Richard Alan Campell) untersucht die Absturzstelle des Korean Airlines Flugs 8509. Die Maschine war kurz nach ihrem Start vom Flughafen Stansted abgestürzt ...