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☑️ | 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝟮𝟱 has been commissioned by Cineflix! These episodes will likely premiere in 2025.
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🚨 | A mid-air collision occurred at a World War II airshow in Dallas.
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Miraculous that everyone survived on the A350 🙏
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🗓 | 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟰): Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappears while en route to Beijing, China from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with 239 on board. It is presumed the aircraft crashed in the southern part of the Indian Ocean, with some debris being found since.
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🗓 | #𝗢𝗧𝗗 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟭 𝗮𝘁 𝟴.𝟰𝟲𝗔𝗠: At this exact moment 21 years ago, American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the World Trade Center as part of the September 11 attacks. 🕯️
Below is a re-mastered version of the Jules Naudet documentary which captured the impact.
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Sad news that Captain Eric Moody passed away recently, the captain of British Airways Flight 009. He featured in the episode featuring the incident that aired in 2007.
Sad to hear on the passing of Eric Moody, the hero pilot of BA Flight 9, a 747 that lost all engines due to volcanic ash. -
#OTD
Entry here
Captain Moody was 84 - Article on his passing here
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📹 | Intro for Season 24, Episode 10: 'Deadly Directive', featuring 𝗘𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗶𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗙𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝟯𝟬𝟮.
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🗓 | 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟮): Garuda Indonesia Flight 421 suffers dual engine failure as a result of heavy rain and hail while on approach to Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The plane ditches into the Bengawan Solo River with a flight attendant the only death of the 60 on board.
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🗓 | 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (𝟭𝟵𝟴𝟱): Images taken from inside the cabin of Japan Airlines Flight 123 before it crashed into a mountain, becoming the deadliest single-aircraft incident in aviation history, with 520 fatalities and only 4 survivors.
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🗓 | 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟲): The deadliest mid-air collision in aviation history: Saudi Arabian Airlines Flight 763 and Kazakhstan Airlines Flight 1907 collide over Charkhi Dadri, India. all 349 on both planes die. The Ilyushin had not maintained its assigned altitude.
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🗓 | 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟬): Rarely seen images of Air France Flight 4590 after departing Charles de Gaulle Airport from a Japanese passenger in an Air France Boeing 747 (the first 3). The Concorde had hit foreign debris from a Continental Airlines DC-10, causing fire.
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🗓 | 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (𝟭𝟵𝟳𝟳): KLM Flight 4805 and Pan Am Flight 1736 collide on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. 583 die as a result with 61 survivors (all on Flight 1736), making it the deadliest accident in aviation history.
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📹 | From Season 18, Episode 8 "Deadly Inclination" (Alitalia Flight 404).
Absolute gold! 😂😂😂
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🚨 | A Yeti Airlines ATR 72-500 has crashed in Pokhara, central Nepal. The aircraft was carrying 68 passengers and 4 crew members at the time of the incident.
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🚨 | LATAM Flight 2213, an Airbus A320neo has collided with a fire truck at high speed on takeoff in Lima, Peru. No fatalities have been reported on the plane but sadly, two firefighters have passed away as a result.
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📢 | 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝟮𝟯 full episode guide is shown below! Which episode are you most looking forward to?
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📹 | Intro of Season 23, Episode 6: 'Cockpit Catastrophe', featuring 𝗦𝗶𝗰𝗵𝘂𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗶𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗙𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝟴𝟲𝟯𝟯.
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📹 | Preview of Season 23, Episode 6: 'Cockpit Catastrophe', featuring 𝗦𝗶𝗰𝗵𝘂𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗶𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗙𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝟴𝟲𝟯𝟯.
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🗓 | 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟰): Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappears while en route to Beijing, China from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with 239 on board. It is presumed the aircraft crashed in the southern part of the Indian Ocean, with some debris being found since.
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📢 | 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝟮𝟰 full episode guide is shown below. What episode are you most interested in?
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🗓 | #𝗢𝗧𝗗 𝗶𝗻 𝟭𝟵𝟴𝟱: Images taken from inside the cabin of Japan Airlines Flight 123 (Boeing 747SR) before it crashed into a mountain, becoming the deadliest single-aircraft incident in aviation history, with 520 fatalities and only 4 survivors.
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📢 | Season 24 will feature 𝗦𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗙𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝟭𝟲𝟯, with a video on Pix Ray VFX showing a part of the CGI scene in the episode.
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☑️ | 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝟮𝟰 has been commissioned by Cineflix!
This will mean that the series is likely to continue into 2024, exceeding 20 years since the first episode aired in September 2003.
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🗓 | 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟮): Garuda Indonesia Flight 421 suffers dual engine failure as a result of heavy rain and hail while on approach to Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The plane ditches into the Bengawan Solo River with a flight attendant the only death of the 60 on board.
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🗓 | #𝗢𝗧𝗗 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟴: Lion Air Flight 610 (Boeing 737 MAX 8) crashes into the Java Sea 13 minutes after taking off from Jakarta, all 189 on board die. The investigation found a flaw in the MCAS, with a further crash in March 2019 causing a worldwide grounding of the MAX 8.
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🗓 | 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟳): Adam Air Flight 574 goes into a dive, causing a disintegration over the Makassar Strait, Indonesia, all 102 on board die. The crew had been preoccupied on fixing the plane's inertial navigation system, resulting in a complete loss of control.
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📹 | Intro of Season 23, Episode 3: 'Pressure Point', featuring 𝗝𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗶𝗿 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗙𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝟭𝟮𝟯.
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Breaking | A 45 year old Transair Boeing 737-275C (N810TA) has ditched in the water near Honolulu after suffering engine trouble. Both pilots have survived. It's possible this is the first time an aircraft has been successfully ditched at night without fatalities.
@flightradar24
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🗓 | #𝗢𝗧𝗗 𝗶𝗻 𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟲: The worst mid-air collision in history: Saudi Arabian Airlines Flight 763 (Boeing 747-100B) and Kazakhstan Airlines Flight 1907 (Ilyushin Il-76) collide over Charkhi Dadri, all 349 on both planes die. Ilyushin had not maintained its assigned altitude.
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🗓 | 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (𝟭𝟵𝟴𝟱): Air India Flight 182 explodes mid-air over the Irish coast due to a bomb traced to the Sikh militant group Babbar Khalsa. All 329 on board die, meaning it was the deadliest act of aviation terrorism until the September 11 attacks in 2001.
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🗓 | 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟴): Lion Air Flight 610 crashes into the Java Sea 13 minutes after taking off from Jakarta, all 189 on board die. The investigation found a flaw in the MCAS system, with a further crash in March 2019 causing a worldwide grounding of the MAX 8.
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🗓 | 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (𝟭𝟵𝟳𝟳): KLM Flight 4805 and Pan Am Flight 1736 collide on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. 583 die as a result with 61 survivors (all on Flight 1736), making it the deadliest accident in aviation history.
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📹 | Intro of Season 23, Episode 9: 'Delivery To Disaster', featuring 𝗔𝘁𝗹𝗮𝘀 𝗔𝗶𝗿 𝗙𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝟯𝟱𝟵𝟭.
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🎥 | A new Air Crash Investigation Season 24 promo from Nat Geo UK. Credit to 'T33V33' on the ACI Reddit Discord.
Also confirmation that Season 24 will premiere on February 12 in the UK.
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🗓 | 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟲): Trans World Airlines Flight 800 explodes and breaks up in mid-air over the Atlantic Ocean 12 minutes after take-off from New York, all 230 on board die. The in-flight breakup was caused by a fuel tank explosion, likely due to a short circuit.
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🗓 | #𝗢𝗧𝗗 𝗶𝗻 𝟭𝟵𝟳𝟳: KLM Flight 4805 (Boeing 747-200B) and Pan Am Flight 1736 (Boeing 747-100) collide on the runway at Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife, Spain. 583 die as a result with 61 survivors all on Flight 1736, making it the deadliest accident in aviation history.
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📹 | Preview of Season 23, Episode 5: 'Control Catastrophe', featuring 𝗔𝗶𝗿 𝗔𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗮 𝗙𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝟭𝟯𝟴𝟴.
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📹 | Preview of Season 23, Episode 3: 'Pressure Point', featuring 𝗝𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗶𝗿 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗙𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝟭𝟮𝟯.
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📢 | Season 24, Episode 10 will feature 𝗘𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗶𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗙𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝟯𝟬𝟮, titled 'Deadly Directive'.
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🗓 | 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆: The day with the most incidents featured is 31 October, with 6.
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🗓 | #𝗢𝗧𝗗 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟭: Air Transat Flight 236 (Airbus A330-200) runs out of fuel due to a fuel leak from improper maintenance while over the Atlantic Ocean. The pilots perform the longest ever glide on a commercial airliner, saving all 306 on board by landing in the Azores.
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🗓 | 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟰): Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is shot down over eastern Ukraine by a Buk 9M83 surface-to-air missile launched by pro-Russian rebels and disintegrates, all 298 on board die. This is the deadliest airliner shoot-down in aviation history.
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🗓 | #𝗢𝗧𝗗 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟯: A surface-to-air missile explodes on the left wing of a DHL Express Airbus A300B4-200F, causing a total loss of all hydraulics and immobilises the flight controls. By using differential thrust, the crew make a safe emergency landing back at Baghdad.
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📷 | Images from Season 24, Episode 10: 'Deadly Directive', featuring 𝗘𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗶𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗙𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝟯𝟬𝟮.
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🗓 | #𝗢𝗧𝗗 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟬: Rarely seen images of Air France Flight 4590 (Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde) taking off from Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris, France after striking foreign debris from a Continental Airlines DC-10, which had ignited a fuel tank.
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📹 | Intro of Season 23, Episode 7: 'Dream Flight Disaster', featuring the 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟳 𝗦𝘆𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗗𝗛𝗖-𝟮 𝗖𝗿𝗮𝘀𝗵.
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🗓 | 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟲): Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 runs out of fuel and ditches near the Comoros Islands, 125 of the 175 on board die. Hijackers had wanted to fly to Australia but ignored the pilot's insistence that the plane didn't have enough fuel to get there.
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📷 | Images from Season 23, Episode 3: 'Pressure Point', featuring 𝗝𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗶𝗿 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗙𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝟭𝟮𝟯.
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📹 | Intro for Season 23, Episode 5: 'Control Catastrophe', featuring 𝗔𝗶𝗿 𝗔𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗮 𝗙𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝟭𝟯𝟴𝟴.
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📢 | Season 24, Episode 5 will feature 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗔𝗶𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗙𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝟲𝟳𝟲, titled 'Eleven Deadly Seconds', as confirmed by Nat Geo (Disney) Portugal.
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📹 | Intro of Season 23, Episode 4: 'Power Play', featuring 𝗔𝗶𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗣𝗡𝗚 𝗙𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝟭𝟲𝟬𝟬.
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🗓 | 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (𝟭𝟵𝟴𝟱): The deadliest single-aircraft accident in aviation history: Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes into Mount Takamagahara after losing all hydraulics and control due to improper repairs from a tailstrike in June 1983. 520 of the 524 on board die.
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🗓 |
#OTD
in 2001 at 8.22am: At this exact moment 20 years ago, one of the last pictures of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center was taken.
24 minutes later the world would change forever. 🙏🕯️
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📹 | Intro of Season 24, Episode 8: 'Under Fire', featuring 𝗦𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗙𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝟭𝟲𝟯.
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🗓 | 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (𝟭𝟵𝟴𝟴): Air France Flight 296 fails to climb and crashes into trees during a low pass at an airshow at Mulhouse-Habsheim Airport, 3 of the 136 on board die. Disputed cause: The BEA blamed the crew while the captain blamed the fly-by-wire computer.
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🗓 | 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟵): Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashes shortly after departing Addis Ababa, all 157 on board die. A faulty angle of attack sensor had accidentally activated the MCAS system. It was the 2nd MAX 8 accident in 5 months, after Lion Air Flight 610.
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🗓 | #𝗢𝗧𝗗 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟭: American Airlines Flight 587 (Airbus A300-600) loses its vertical stabiliser, spirals uncontrollably and crashes into Queens, New York after errant rudder use from first officer in response to wake turbulence. All 260 on board and 5 on the ground die.
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🗓 | #𝗢𝗧𝗗 𝗶𝗻 𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟲: Trans World Airlines (TWA) Flight 800 (Boeing 747-100) explodes and breaks up in mid-air over the Atlantic Ocean 12 minutes after take-off from New York, all 230 on board die. The breakup was caused by a fuel tank explosion due to a short circuit.
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📷 | Images from Season 24, Episode 2: 'Disaster at Dutch Harbor', featuring 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗶𝗿 𝗙𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝟯𝟮𝟵𝟲.
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🗓 | 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (𝟭𝟵𝟴𝟱): China Airlines Flight 006 rapidly dives 30,000 feet from cruise altitude through clouds after the crew tried to restart a failed engine and become spatially disorientated. Emergency landing is made at San Francisco, all 274 on board survive.
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📢 | Season 24, Episode 2 will feature 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗶𝗿 𝗙𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝟯𝟮𝟵𝟲, titled 'Disaster at Dutch Harbor', with a picture of a scene from that episode seen online.
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📹 | Preview of Season 24, Episode 1: 'Terror Over the Pacific', featuring 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝗶𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗙𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝟴𝟭𝟭.
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🗓 | 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟳): Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 crashes into mountainous woodlands in low visibility while approaching Medan, Indonesia, all 234 on board die. The plane had turned the wrong way due to a miscommunication between the crew and air traffic control.
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🗓 | 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟱): Helios Airways Flight 522 runs out of fuel and crashes into hills near Grammatiko, Greece, all 121 people on board die. An incorrect cabin pressurisation setting had caused almost all on board to succumb to hypoxia, incapacitating the pilots.
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🗓 | 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟬): Singapore Airlines Flight 006 attempts to takes off from the wrong runway due to pilot error during heavy wind and rain caused by a typhoon, colliding into construction equipment at Chiang Kai Shek Airport, Taipei. 83 of the 179 on board die.
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#OTD
in 2010: The number-two engine of Qantas Flight 32 (Airbus A380-800) explodes due to a manufacturing fault in an oil pipe, damaging the left wing. After overcoming multiple failures, the crew make a safe emergency landing back at Singapore, saving all 469 on board.
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🗓 | 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (𝟭𝟵𝟴𝟵): United Airlines Flight 232 suffers an explosion in its tail-mounted engine, causing total loss of hydraulics and controls. By varying engine thrust, the crew save the lives of 184 of the 296 on board by crash-landing at Sioux Gateway Airport.
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🚨 | 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗙𝗨𝗟𝗟 𝗦𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗢𝗡 𝟮𝟮 𝗘𝗣𝗜𝗦𝗢𝗗𝗘 𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗧
Which episode are you most looking forward to?
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📹 | Intro of Season 24, Episode 2: 'Disaster at Dutch Harbor', featuring 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗶𝗿 𝗙𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝟯𝟮𝟵𝟲.
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🗓 | 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (𝟭𝟵𝟴𝟴): Pan Am Flight 103 disintegrates mid-air while at cruise altitude after a terrorist bomb had detonated in the forward cargo hold, causing wreckage to crash into the town of Lockerbie, Scotland. All 259 on board and 11 on the ground die.
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🗓 | #𝗢𝗧𝗗 𝗶𝗻 𝟭𝟵𝟴𝟮: British Airways Flight 9 (Boeing 747-200B) experiences St. Elmo's fire and all 4 engines flame out due to volcanic ash spewed by Galunggung in Indonesia. After descending, the crew successfully restart all engines and safely land at Jarkata, Indonesia.
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📷 | Images from Season 24, Episode 1: 'Terror Over the Pacific', featuring 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝗶𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗙𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝟴𝟭𝟭.
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🗓 | 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (𝟭𝟵𝟴𝟮): British Airways Flight 9 experiences St. Elmo's fire and all 4 engines flame out due to volcanic ash spewed by Galunggung in Indonesia. After descending, the crew restart all engines and land at Jarkata, Indonesia, all 263 on board survive.
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🗓 | #𝗢𝗧𝗗 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟬: Singapore Airlines Flight 006 (Boeing 747-400) takes off from the wrong runway due to pilot error during heavy wind and rain caused by a typhoon, colliding into construction equipment at Chiang Kai Shek Airport, Taipei. 83 of the 179 on board die.
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📷 | Additional images from Season 23, Episode 6: 'Cockpit Catastrophe', featuring 𝗦𝗶𝗰𝗵𝘂𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗶𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗙𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝟴𝟲𝟯𝟯.
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🗓 | #𝗢𝗧𝗗 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟵: US Airways Flight 1549 (Airbus A320-200) ditches into the Hudson River after a bird strike causes both engines to fail shortly after take-off. All 155 on board survive, leading the NTSB to label it as "the most successful ditching in aviation history."
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📹 | The new opening sequence, replacing the one used from Season 18 to Season 23.
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🗓 | 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆: 17 July is the deadliest date in aviation with 927 fatalities across 17 airline incidents.
Incidents include: Trans World Airlines Flight 800, Alliance Air Flight 7412, TAM Airlines Flight 3054 and Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.
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📹 | Preview of Season 24, Episode 10: 'Deadly Directive', featuring 𝗘𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗶𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗙𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝟯𝟬𝟮.
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🗓 | #𝗢𝗧𝗗 𝗶𝗻 𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟲: Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 (Boeing 767-200ER) runs out of fuel and ditches near Comoros, 125 of the 175 on board die. Hijackers had wanted to fly to Australia but ignored the pilot's insistence that the plane did not have enough fuel to get there.
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🗓 | 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟵): US Airways Flight 1549 ditches into the Hudson River, New York after a bird strike causes dual engine failure shortly after takeoff. All 155 on board survive, leading the NTSB to label it as "the most successful ditching in aviation history".
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🗓 | #𝗢𝗧𝗗 𝗶𝗻 𝟭𝟵𝟴𝟱: The deadliest single-aircraft accident in aviation history: Japan Airlines Flight 123 (Boeing 747SR) crashes into Mount Takamagahara after losing all hydraulics and control due to improper repairs in an earlier tailstrike. 520 of the 524 on board die.
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🎥 | Intro for Season 21, Episode 4 'Grounded: Boeing Max 8' (Lion Air Flight 610).
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🗓 | 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟬): British Airways Flight 5390 cockpit window blows out due to incorrect sized bolts, partially sucking out the captain. The co-pilot makes an emergency landing at Southampton Airport. All 87 on board survive, including remarkably, the captain.
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📅 |
#OTD
in 1985: Images taken from inside the cabin of Japan Airlines Flight 123 before it became the deadliest single-aircraft incident in aviation history, with 520 fatalities and only 4 survivors.
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🗓 | 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟳): Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 bounces hard on landing and overruns the runway at Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 21 of the 140 on board die. The captain had insisted to land despite an incorrect flap setting and a highly dangerous descent rate.
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🗓 | 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟬): Qantas Flight 32 suffers an explosion on the number-2 engine after a manufacturing fault in an oil pipe, damaging the left wing. After overcoming many failures, the crew make an emergency landing back at Singapore, saving all 469 on board.
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🎥 | A new Air Crash Investigation Season 24 promo from Nat Geo Africa.
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🗓 | 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (𝟭𝟵𝟴𝟯): Air Canada Flight 143 glides to a landing at Gimli Industrial Park Airport after fuel exhaustion, all 69 on board survive. An unserviceable fuel gauge and conversion error between metric and imperial units caused deficient fuel to be loaded.
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📹 | Intro of Season 24, Episode 3: 'Deadly Departure', featuring 𝗔𝗶𝗿 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝟳𝟴𝟮.
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🗓 | 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟱): Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes into the French Alps after entering into a high speed descent shortly after reaching cruise, all 150 on board die. The co-pilot Andreas Lubitz had committed murder-suicide, having locked himself in the cockpit.
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🗓 | 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟴): Air Astana Flight 1388 suffers severe flight control issues after incorrectly installed aileron cables caused reversal of the aileron controls. The crew make a successful emergency landing at Beja Airbase, Portugal, all 6 on board survive.
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🗓 | #𝗢𝗧𝗗 𝗶𝗻 𝟭𝟵𝟴𝟵: The tail-mounted engine of United Airlines Flight 232 (McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10) explodes, causing a total loss of hydraulics and controls. By varying engine thrust, the crew save the lives of 184 of the 296 on board by crash-landing in Sioux City.
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🗓 | 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 (𝟮𝟬𝟎𝟖): British Airways Flight 38 crashes just short of the runway at London Heathrow Airport after dual engine failure, all 152 on board survive. Ice crystals had caused a blockage in the fuel-oil heat exchanger of both engines, limiting fuel flow.
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