Season 26 • Episode 9
LatestOn 7 August 2020, Air India Express Flight 1344 plunges down a gorge after overrunning the runway at Kozhikode International Airport in poor weather, killing 21 of the 190 people on board. The captain continued the unstabilized approach and landed too far down the runway.
Major real-life air disasters are depicted in this series. Each episode features a detailed dramatized reconstruction of the incident based on cockpit voice recorders and air traffic control transcripts, as well as eyewitnesses recounts and interviews with aviation experts.
Production
Painstaking reconstructions using actual CVR transcripts.
Editing
Ruthless cross-cutting between calm pilots and impending doom.
Sound
Those alarms still haunt my dreams, thanks.
Creators
Bernard Vaillot, André Barro
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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