Air Disasters - Season 20

Air Disasters (2011 — present)

Seasons: 25, episodes: 286

Episode runtime: 45 min

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Season 20

All about the series

Release date

30 July 2023

Episodes

History's most terrifying air disasters, and the investigations that followed, are revisited and reexamined.

Episodes

#	Name	Release date	Timing
1	Headline News Special — Multiple incidents: Three crashes that made front-page news around the world, and how intense media pressure shaped the investigations that followed.	2023-07-30	44 min.
2	Rookie Errors Special — Multiple incidents, including LAPA Flight 3142, American Airlines Flight 587, and Colgan Air Flight 3407: Even highly trained crews can fall prey to the most basic mistakes — with devastating results.	2023-08-06	44 min.
3	Collision Course Special — Multiple incidents: Mid-air and on-course collisions, and the systems built to keep aircraft — and vessels — safely apart.	2023-08-13	44 min.
4	Engines Out Special — Multiple incidents: When an aircraft loses all engine power, training and airmanship become the last line of defense.	2023-08-20	44 min.
5	Fuel Trouble Special — Multiple incidents: Flights brought down not by their machinery but by the fuel meant to keep them flying — from mismanagement to mechanical failure.	2023-08-27	44 min.
6	Perilous Payload Special — Multiple incidents: Aircraft fatally out of balance from misloaded or unsecured cargo — a risk that's entirely preventable, yet keeps recurring.	2023-09-03	44 min.
7	Runway in Sight Special — Multiple incidents: Crashes that happened with the airport already in view, when the final moments of flight proved the most dangerous.	2023-09-10	44 min.
8	Deadly Confusion Special — Multiple incidents: Cockpits overwhelmed by conflicting information, where confusion in critical seconds turned recoverable situations into disasters.	2023-09-17	44 min.
9	Radio Silence Special — Multiple incidents: Flights that stopped responding to the outside world, and the race to understand what was happening on board.	2023-09-24	44 min.
10	Design Flaws Special — Multiple incidents: Hidden weaknesses engineered into aircraft long before takeoff, and the crashes that finally exposed them.	2023-10-01	44 min.
11	Heat of the Moment Special — Multiple incidents: Crews forced to make split-second decisions under extreme pressure — some heroic, some catastrophic.	2024-01-07	44 min.
12	Instrument Confusion Special — Multiple incidents: When the instruments pilots depend on begin feeding them lies, crews must decide what — and whether — to believe.	2024-01-14	44 min.
13	VIP on Board Special — Multiple incidents: Crashes that claimed prominent figures, and the extraordinary scrutiny those investigations drew.	2024-01-21	44 min.
14	Lapse in Security Special — Multiple incidents: Disasters that began on the ground, when security measures meant to protect passengers failed.	2024-01-28	44 min.
15	Mountain Impact Special — Multiple incidents: Aircraft brought down by terrain, and the technology developed to keep crews from flying into mountains they never saw.	2024-02-04	44 min.
16	Survivors Special — Multiple incidents: Passengers and crew who lived through the unthinkable, and what their stories reveal about surviving a crash.	2024-02-11	44 min.
17	Death from Above Special — Multiple incidents: Disasters that reached beyond the aircraft, when falling planes and debris brought tragedy to those below.	2024-02-18	44 min.
18	Courage in the Cockpit Special — Multiple incidents: Crews who faced impossible circumstances and, through skill and nerve, gave their passengers a fighting chance.	2024-02-25	44 min.
19	Maintenance Mistakes Special — Multiple incidents: Small errors in hangars and workshops that grew into catastrophes at altitude.	2024-06-23	44 min.
20	Take Off Tragedies Special — Multiple incidents: The most critical seconds of any flight — and the crashes that happened before aircraft ever truly left the ground.	2024-06-30	44 min.
21	Dead of Night Special — Multiple incidents: Darkness strips pilots of the horizon and hides danger — these crashes show how quickly night flying can turn deadly.	2024-07-07	44 min.
22	Engine Gone Special — Multiple incidents: Engines that failed catastrophically — or tore away entirely — and the crews left to fly what remained.	2024-07-14	44 min.
23	Lethal Choices Special — Multiple incidents: Decisions made in cockpits and operations rooms that sealed a flight's fate long before the moment of impact.	2024-07-21	44 min.
24	Risky Runways Special — Multiple incidents: The world's most demanding airports, where terrain, weather, and short pavement leave crews little margin for error.	2024-07-28	44 min.
25	Landings Gone Wrong Special — Multiple incidents: Approaches and touchdowns that unraveled in the final seconds, when nearly home proved not close enough.	2024-08-04	44 min.
26	Frozen Wings Special — Multiple incidents: Ice — nearly invisible and ruthlessly effective — and the flights it brought down before its dangers were fully understood.	2024-08-11	44 min.
27	Runway Collisions Special — Multiple incidents: Disasters that happened entirely on the ground, when two aircraft ended up on the same strip of pavement.	2024-08-18	44 min.
28	Cockpit Breakdown Special — Multiple incidents: When teamwork in the cockpit collapses — through conflict, hierarchy, or silence — the aircraft pays the price.	2024-08-25	45 min.
29	Splash Down Special — Multiple incidents: Flights that ended in the water, from controlled ditchings to high-speed impacts, and what determined who survived.	2024-09-01	44 min.
30	Northern Extremes Special — Multiple incidents: Aviation at the edge of the map, where cold, isolation, and unforgiving conditions magnify every mistake.	2024-09-08	44 min.

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