7.30AM Air Crash Investigation: Unlocking Disaster
Unlocking Disaster investigates how delays in fixing known design faults can have tragic consequences.
8.30AM Air Crash Investigation: Racing The Storm
Investigates the crash of Flight 1420 to Little Rock, could the pilots have made the bad decision to fly into the eye of a storm in the face of severe crosswinds?
9.30AM Air Crash Investigation: Fire On Board
What was the cause of the fire on Swissair Flight 111 and why did it spread so destructively so quickly?
10.30AM Air Crash Investigation: Flying On Empty
For large commercial jets, running out of fuel is a critical problem. When it occurs 85 nautical miles from the nearest land, it can end in catastrophe.
11.30AM Air Crash Investigation: Cutting Corners
Air Alaska Flight 261, the pilots struggle to control the nose-diving plane but it rolls and dives into the ocean. Uncover the story of how improper maintenance led to a fatal crash.
12.30PM Air Crash Investigation: Flying Blind
This is the story of what happens when simple human error causes the computers to fail, and the pilots are left Flying Blind in the dark.
1.30PM Air Crash Investigation: Blowout
Within minutes of take off a loud bang is heard in the cockpit of BA flight 5390. The windshield has blown out and the captain's body is plastered to the side of the plane. Will the co-pilot land safely? What caused the blow out?
2.30PM Air Crash Investigation: Wounded Bird
Investigates the dramatic ordeal of ASA Flight 529 as 2 pilots with 26 passengers onboard manage to defy the laws of gravity by flying the plane with only one good wing for nine minutes and twenty seconds.
3.30PM Air Crash Investigation: Hijacked
Details the tension felt on Christmas Eve in 1994 when four Algerian terrorists hijack a Paris-bound plane determined to get the world's attention.
4.30PM Air Crash Investigation: Flying On Empty
For large commercial jets, running out of fuel is a critical problem. When it occurs 85 nautical miles from the nearest land, it can end in catastrophe.
5.30PM Air Crash Investigation: Lost
Reconstructs the mistakes of two experienced pilots as they struggle with the state of the art automation of the Boeing 757 minutes before it crashes into the top of a mountain.
6.30PM Air Crash Investigation: Missing Over New York
Tension mounts in the cockpit, as Avianca Flight 052 circles over a foggy New York night running on alarmingly low fuel. Will it crash on the crowded city?
7.30PM Air Crash Investigation: Blowout
Within minutes of take off a loud bang is heard in the cockpit of BA flight 5390. The windshield has blown out and the captain's body is plastered to the side of the plane. Will the co-pilot land safely? What caused the blow out?
http://www.nationalgeographic.com.au...date=6/13/2005