Back to Air Crash Investigation: Special Report
Season 4
10 Episodes2021
In this special season of Air Crash Investigation, every episode examines multiple aviation disasters that prove to have similarities including; engines that separated from their aircrafts mid-flight, mismatched pilot pairings that led to deadly crashes, and improvised landings with tragic consequences.
Episodes (10)
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Ep 1
Dead of Night
★8.0
2021-01-10•44m
Confused, flying blind and lost in the dark, three crews lose site of the horizon and fall into the same deadly trap.
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Ep 2
Engine Gone
★9.0
2021-01-17•44m
Three crews experience the same devastating event, but with radically different outcomes when an engine falls off their commercial airplane.
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Ep 3
Lethal Choices
★9.0
2021-01-24•44m
Faced with a mid-air crisis, pilots must make life-and-death decisions, but the wrong approach can trigger a far more serious problem.
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Ep 4
Risky Runways
★10.0
2021-01-31•44m
In Sao Paolo, the Himalayas, and on the Norwegian coast, three flight crews are pushed to the limit by the toughest landings on earth.
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Ep 5
Landings Gone Wrong
★10.0
2021-02-07•44m
Relying on instinct rather than the rule book, three flights end in tragedy when crews improvise on their final approach.
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Ep 6
Frozen Wings
★7.0
2021-02-08•44m
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.
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Ep 7
Runway Collisions
★8.0
2021-02-11•44m
Three catastrophic runway collisions raise the same pressing question: How could two planes end up on the same runway at the same time?
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Ep 8
Cockpit Breakdown
★7.0
2021-02-12•44m
Illustrating the deadly consequences of a mismatched crew, three flights end in tragedy, leaving investigators to unravel what went wrong.
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Ep 9
Splash Down
★9.0
2021-02-14•44m
Three last-resort water landings-all handled differently-yet each one crucial to improving the outcomes of ditching on open water.
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Ep 10
Northern Extremes
★8.0
2021-02-15•44m
Faced with the extreme conditions of the far North, three flights fall out of the sky leaving investigators to uncover the cause.