Special Report Season 20: Mountain Impact
Follow three horrifying crashes that revealed high-tech blind spots in the technology preventing aircraft from ploughing into mountains.
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Episode 1
Final Hour of Flight 11 Aircrash Confidential Mystery
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Episode 2
Crash of the Century
March 27, 1977 – At 2:00 in the afternoon a thick fog rolled into the usually quiet Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. On the runway sat two fully loaded jumbo airliners, blanketed in fog. A bomb explosion at a nearby airport had re-directed air traffic to the undermanned airfield at Tenerife. Within three hours, a KLM 747 slams into a taxiing PAM 747, killing 583 people. The planes never left the ground.
Episode 3
Special Report Season 13: Getting Out Alive
This special looked at how people survive aviation accidents, in part with demonstrations at the Czech Airlines Training Centre. It provided case studies on the following flight: - Asiana Airlines Flight 214 - Air France Flight 358 - Reeve Aleutian Airways Flight 8 - Air Canada Flight 797 - US Airways Flight 1549
Episode 4
Special Report Season 18 : Communication Breakdown
This special looked at how failures in communication lead to disasters
Episode 5
Special Report Season 18 : Bad Attitude
This special looked at how pilots' aggressive or unprofessional behaviour can cause deadly accidents.
Episode 6
Special Report Season 18 : Hero Pilots
This special looked at how pilots safely land their aircraft in emergency situations.
