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Last updated on 31 December 2018.

TV Series (Season 05 - 2008)
Also known as:
Mayday / Air Disasters (Québec)
Air Emergency (USA)
Air Crash Investigation(s) (English title)

Starring:

Each episode of 52 minutes includes two parts. The first one tells the chronology of a flight, with aviation experts and eyewitnesses, usually from the boarding until the drama. In the second part, the enquiry is told until its conclusions and the consequences on industry and airline companies are exposed.

Episode One :

(not yet analysed)

Episode Two : Gimli Glider (Air Canada Flight 143)

Airbus A321-211

Antonov An-124 Ruslan & Various Aircraft

Seen on panels behind the interviewee.

Bell CH-146 Griffon

Registration 146454, c/n 46454.

Boeing 737-300

Boeing 767-233 (CGI)

CGI of the accident aircraft. Registration C-GAUN, c/n 22520 built in 1983. Ran out of fuel and made an emergency landing at Gimli Industrial Park airport on July 23, 1983. All occupants survived.

Boeing 767-233

Registration C-GAUN, c/n 22520 built in 1983. Ran out of fuel and made an emergency landing at Gimli Industrial Park airport on July 23, 1983. All occupants survived.

Boeing 767-233/ER

McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32

Registration C-FTLU, c/n 47196 built in 1968. Air Canada's Flight 797 caught on fire mid-flight and had to make an emergency landing at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG/KCVG) on 2 June 1983. 23 passengers died.

Episode Three

(missing analysis)

Episode Four

(missing analysis)

Episode Five

(missing analysis)

Episode Six : Southern Storm (Southern Airways Flight 242)

McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31

Reg. N1335U Douglas DC-9-31 Southern Airways Flight 242 (CGI). Part of S08E02 Cruel Skies too.

McDonnell Douglas MD-90-30

McDonnell Douglas MD-90-30 of Delta Air Lines.

Stinson V77 Reliant

Reg. CF-CAJ Stinson V77 Reliant c/n 77-166 of the Toronto Aerospace Museum (was 42-46805 then N42357 before).
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).

Boeing 737

McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31

Douglas DC-9-31 of Southern Airways Flight 932 (14 November 1970).

Episode Seven : Air India: Explosive Evidence (Air India Flight 182)

Boeing 747-437

CGI.

Real one.

Boeing 737 & Boeing 747

Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King

Westland WS-61 Sea King HAR 3

Boeing 747-237B

Remains of Air India Flight 182, subject of the episode.

Ilyushin Il-96

McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10

Registration TC-JAV, c/n 46704/29. Flight 981, Crashed over Ermenonville near Paris on the 3 March 1974.

Boeing 747-128

On 17 May 1997, the FAA, in conjunction with the Civil Aviation Authority in the United Kingdom, conducted a blast test on an ex-Air France Boeing 747 c/n 20355/105. (reg. F-BPVE when in service).