Mayday Air Disaster DVD

Revealing the dark truth that aviation safety improves one crash at a time Mayday investigates legendary aviation disasters to find out what went wrong and why. Based on cockpit voice recorders accident reports and eyewitness accounts every episode also features interviews state-of-the-art CGI and gripping re-enactments. This 8 DVD Collectors box set includes three complete series of the award winning National Geographic / Discovery Channel series. Disc 1-3 Mayday - Complete Series 5On 23 June 1985 Air India Flight 182 exploded in mid-air and disintegrated over... the coast of Ireland killing all 329 passengers and crew. Investigators discovered that a bomb from Sikh militant group Babbar Khalsa caused the explosion. Also included in the 10 episode series are American Airlines Flight 96 and Turkish Airlines Flight 981 South African Airways Flight 295 Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 and many more... Disc 4-6 Mayday - Complete Series 7On 21 December 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 exploded in mid-air with the debris of the 747 falling on the town of Lockerbie killing 270 people. The actions of the terrorists that day reverberated around the political world for the next three decades. Series 7 also features 1996 Charkhi Dadri mid-air collision American Eagle Flight 4184 Partnair Flight 394 and many more... Disc 7-8 Mayday - Complete Series 10On 15 January 2009 an Airbus A320 operated by US Airways Flight 1549 encounters a bird strike with a flock of Canada geese approximately 1.5 minutes after taking off from LaGuardia Airport in New York en route to Charlotte/Douglas Airport. The flight lasted for 6 minutes when the plane ditched into the Hudson River amazingly leaving all on board alive. Another featured episode in the series includes the British Airways flight of the 17th January 2008 both of British Airways Flight 38's engines suddenly rolled back to idle. The Captain raised one notch of flaps which gave them a few more feet of flying distance. The aircraft passed over the A30 road and crashed just short of the runway. There were no fatalities but 47 people sustained injuries. [show more]

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