Mayday: The Accident Files
Gripping reenactments using cockpit voice recordings and eyewitness reports detail infamous aviation disasters coupled with investigative conclusions.
Subtitles: English
Starring:Jonathan Aris
Season 4
S04:E01 - Dead of Night
Confused, flying blind, and lost in the dark, three crews lose site of the horizon and fall into the same deadly trap.
S04:E02 - Engines Separated
Three crews experience the same devastating event, but with radically different outcomes when an engine falls off their commercial airplane.
S04:E03 - Creating New Problems
Faced with a mid-air crisis, pilots must make life-and-death decisions, but the wrong approach can trigger a far more serious problem.
S04:E04 - Notoriously Tricky Landings
In Sao Paolo, the Himalayas, and on the Norwegian coast, three flight crews are pushed to the limit by the toughest landings on earth.
S04:E05 - Improvised Landings Gone Wrong
Relying on instinct rather than the rule book, three flights end in tragedy when crews improvise on their final approach.
S04:E06 - Frozen Wings
Three planes are brought down by ice, and it’s up to investigators to determine how modern aircraft could possibly end up with frozen wings.
S04:E07 - Runway Collisions
Three catastrophic runway collisions raise the same pressing question: How could two planes end up on the same runway at the same time?
S04:E08 - Bad Pilot Pairings
With communication mix-ups and personality clashes in the cockpit, three flights end in tragedy leaving investigators to unravel what went wrong.
S04:E09 - Water Ditchings
Three last-resort water landings—all handled differently—yet each one crucial to improving the outcomes of ditching on open water.
S04:E10 - Northern Problems
Faced with the extreme conditions of the far North, three flights fall out of the sky leaving investigators to uncover the cause.
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