Independent Air Flight 1851 is en route from Italy to the Dominican Republic and is scheduled to refuel on a Portuguese island. For some reason, a Boeing 707 crashes into a mountain just minutes before the airport. The international team of investigators finds no mechanical faults at all and is confused about the cause of the accident. Then the CVR reveals a cluster of errors that sealed the fate of the 144 passengers.
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S23 E1Deadly Exchange (Corporate Airlines Flight 5966)
Feb 13, 202342 min
Corporate Airlines Flight 5966 appears out of the clouds and crashes into trees on approach to Kirksville, Missouri. The twin-engine turboprop plane catches fire just over a kilometer from the runway. The charred wreckage offers clues as to
S23 E3Pressure Point (Japan Airlines Flight 123)
Feb 6, 2023
Just moments after takeoff, Japan Airlines Flight 123 experiences two explosions. The pilot is having trouble keeping the damaged Boeing 747 in the air. It plunges into the mountain. The accident becomes one of the deadliest accidents in av
S23 E4Power Play (PNG Flight 1600)
Feb 27, 2023
After losing both engines, a turboprop crashes in Papua New Guinea and investigators soon uncover a deadly flaw in an aircraft used around the world.
S23 E5Control Catastrophe (Air Astana Flight 1388)
Mar 6, 2023
A Kazakh crew manage to land an uncontrollable aircraft and investigators must determine how a freshly-serviced plane was released with a fatal flaw.
S23 E6Cockpit Catastrophe (Sichuan Airlines Flight 8633)
Mar 13, 202342 min
When the cockpit window of Sichuan Airlines 8633 explodes, the crew somehow battles gale-force winds and oxygen deprivation to safely land the plane.
S23 E7Dream Flight Disaster (Sydney Seaplanes DHC-2 Crash)
Mar 20, 202360 min
When a UK billionaire and his family die in an Australian seaplane crash, investigators uncover a minor maintenance issue with deadly consequences.