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Air Crash Investigation is a science television program on National Geographic Channel. The series is produced by a Canadian company and was broadcast by the channel in USA, Great Britain, Australia and Asia. As of February 2006, 3 seasons of programs have been produced. It also airs weekly on Discovery Canada. Image File history File linksMetadata AirCrashInvestigation. ...
Japan Airlines flight 123 (JAL123, JA123, JL123), a Boeing 747SR-46, JA8119, crashed into the ridge of Mount Takamagahara in Gunma Prefecture, Japan 100 km from Tokyo, on Monday August 12, 1985. ...
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It is a documentary that investigates the air crashes in modern history. It reveals events that led up to each crash and the causes to the crashes. It features reenactments, interviews, testimony, computer generated imaging (CGI), and in some episodes, Cockpit Voice Recordings (CVR's) to reconstruct the sequence of events to the audiences.
Name of the Program
The series is actually produced by Cineflix in Canada with the name of Mayday-Air Disaster. Air Crash Investigation is only the name used by National Geographic Channel to market the series. Many viewers also refer this program as Air Crash Investigations (with an "s" at the end) while National Geographic actually does not put an "s" at the end. (1} In the United States, this series is named Air Emergency. (2)
Format Several passengers and crews (whether they survived the accident or not) of the accident aircraft would be picked and actors/actresses would play the role of those passengers and crews throughout the accident flight usually starting from boarding of the flight. The flight routines in the air traffic control, cockpit and cabin would be recreated on screen starting from departure up to the moment of the accident. At the moment of the accident, external view of the aircraft from different angles would be recreated to show the effect and what had happened to the aircraft. The responses and reactions of the passengers, crews and air traffic control after the accident had happened leading up to the eventual crash or emergency landing are then recreated. All the scenes in cockpit and air traffic control centres are recreated using the actual script obtained from the cockpit voice recorder of the accident aircraft. Air Traffic Control Towers (ATCTs) at Schiphol Airport Air Traffic Control (ATC) is a service provided by ground-based controllers who direct aircraft on the ground and in the air. ...
A cockpit was a pit used for cockfighting, where owners would pit fighting birds against each other for the purpose of gambling. ...
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In aircraft, the flight data recorder (FDR) and the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) are used to record aircraft and pilot behavior in order to analyze accidents, and are usually called black boxes by the news media. ...
The rescue and recovery effort and the investigations process is then recreated in details, showing how the aircraft parts, the flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders are recovered and examined, how the pieces are related together to maintenance records, initial design, training procedures, etc. to draw the final conclusion.
Surviving passengers and crews or surviving relatives and friends of deceased passengers are interviewed throughout each episode. Investigators, from NTSB in most cases, involved in the subsequent accident investigations are interviewed to explain the flow of the investigations and how the conclusion and subsequent recommendations are made. Each episode usually ends with a short interview with one of the survivors (or a relative of a deceased) to summarize their experience and how they feel. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is a U.S. government organization responsible for investigation of accidents involving aviation, highway, marine, pipelines and railroads in the United States. ...
Episode List Cargo door recovered by US Navy divers United Airlines Flight 811 experienced an explosive decompression on February 24, 1989 after take-off from Honolulu International Airport, Honolulu, Hawaii. ...
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Canadian Coast Guard Vessel Henry Hudson searches for Swissair Flight 111 debris Swissair Flight 111 (SR-111) was a Swissair McDonnell Douglas MD-11 on a scheduled airline flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, United States to Cointrin International Airport in Geneva, Switzerland. ...
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Air Transat Flight 236 was an Air Transat route between Toronto and Lisbon flown by Captain Robert Piché and First Officer Dirk or Dick Dejager. ...
Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529 was a flight between Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport which crashed near Carrollton, Georgia on August 21, 1995, killing 9 (officially 8) of the 29 people onboard. ...
British Airways Flight 5390 was a British Airways flight between Birmingham International Airport in Birmingham, England and Málaga, Spain. ...
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Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 was a Russian aircraft which collided with a DHL-owned cargo plane, on July 1, 2002 at 21:35 (UTC), near the German town of Ãœberlingen, near Lake Constance. ...
American Airlines Flight 965 was a scheduled flight from Miami International Airport in Miami, Florida to Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport in Cali, Colombia. ...
Avianca Airlines Flight 52 was a regularly scheduled flight from Bogotás El Dorado International Airport to New Yorks John F. Kennedy International Airport via MedellÃn, Colombias José MarÃa Córdova International Airport. ...
Aeroflot Flight 593 refers to an airline crash on March 23, 1994 in which an Aeroflot Airbus A310-300, flying from Moscow (SVO) to Hong Kong, crashed into a hillside in Siberia. ...
Japan Airlines flight 123 (JAL123, JA123, JL123), a Boeing 747SR-46, JA8119, crashed into the ridge of Mount Takamagahara in Gunma Prefecture, Japan 100 km from Tokyo, on Monday August 12, 1985. ...
European Air Transport is a cargo airline based in Brussels, Belgium. ...
The DHL flight of Baghdad was an aviation event which took place in the Iraq war. ...
FedEx Flight 705 was an attempted hijacking of a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 on April 7, 1994 by Auburn Calloway, a FedEx employee who was due to be fired for lying on his résumé about his previous flying experience with the United States Navy. ...
Aloha Airlines Flight 243 was a scheduled Boeing 737-200 flight between Hilo and Honolulu in Hawaii. ...
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Egyptair Flight 990 was a flight that flew on a Los Angeles-New York-Cairo route (LAX to JFK to Cairo International Airport in Cairo, Egypt). ...
Philippine Airlines Flight 434 was the route designator of a flight that flew on a Ninoy Aquino International Airport near Manila, Philippines - Mactan-Cebu International Airport, Cebu - New Tokyo International Airport (Now Narita International Airport), Narita, Japan near Tokyo route. ...
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Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 was a flight that flew on an Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Nairobi, Kenya - Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo - Lagos, Nigeria - Abidjan, Côte dIvoire route. ...
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- National Geographic Australia
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- National Geographic USA
- Seven Network (Australia)
The Seven Network (ASX: SEV) is an Australian television network. ...
See also Logo of the documentary Seconds from Disaster Seconds From Disaster is a documentary that investigates the worst man-made disasters in modern history, and analyzes the causes and events that led up to each disaster. ...
Crash Scene Investigation is a documentary series from the makers of Air Crash Investigation. ...
External links - Official site in National Geographic UK
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