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  • 2012-02-20T21:00:00Z on Discovery
  • 45m
  • 5h (6 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
Every air crash is a catastrophe that leaves behind bereaved families and ruined lives. But each air crash is also a lesson learnt, and because of each disaster we now know how to build safer planes, evacuate passengers more swiftly, and better avoid collisions. Lives have been saved because of what these tragedies have taught us, and yet, despite this progress, more and more disasters still happen. Using powerful personal accounts from survivors, pilots and witnesses as well as comments from aviation experts and CGI, each episode of Air Crash Confidential investigates a selection of aviation disasters to reveal how and why tragedy still happens. It will discover why, despite repeated warnings, terrorists remain one step ahead of airport security, and how only a seating plan error and some sweaty feet saved hundreds from being blown up in mid- air. We will also reveal how a computer designed to eliminate pilot error led to a Qantas flight plummeting hundreds of feet, and that however brilliant our technology, human error can never be entirely eliminated - Air Traffic controller Pieter Nielsen was eventually murdered because of a mistake he made on a busy day that caused the deaths of 45 schoolchildren.

6 episodes

Season Premiere

2012-02-20T21:00:00Z

2x01 Autopilot Error

Season Premiere

2x01 Autopilot Error

  • 2012-02-20T21:00:00Z50m

Disasters atribbuted to "auto-pilot error". Disasters included: Turkish Airlines Flight 1951, Birgenair Flight 301 and a Qantas Boeing 737 Incident.

2012-02-20T21:00:00Z

2x02 737 Tailfin Mystery

2x02 737 Tailfin Mystery

  • 2012-02-20T21:00:00Z50m

Disasters included: United Airlines Flight 585 and USAir Flight 427.

2012-02-27T21:00:00Z

2x03 Pilot Fatigue

2x03 Pilot Fatigue

  • 2012-02-27T21:00:00Z50m

Disasters included: Air India Express Flight 812, Corporate Airlines Flight 5966 and Colgan Air Flight 3407.

2012-03-05T21:00:00Z

2x04 Systems Failure

2x04 Systems Failure

  • 2012-03-05T21:00:00Z50m

Disasters included: Qantas Flight 32, United Airlines Flight 232 and XL Airways Germany Flight 888T

2012-03-15T21:00:00Z

2x05 Poor Maintenance

2x05 Poor Maintenance

  • 2012-03-15T21:00:00Z50m

Disasters included: Southwest Airlines Flight 812, Japan Air Lines Flight 123 and British Airways Flight 5390

Season Finale

2012-03-18T21:00:00Z

2x06 Take-off

Season Finale

2x06 Take-off

  • 2012-03-18T21:00:00Z50m

Disasters included: Spanair Flight 5022, Emirates Flight 407 and 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster.

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