Mayday 7
2009-11-04 | Documentary,Drama,Crime | 8 episodes25 Seasons
Episode
Lockerbie Disaster (Pan Am 103) (2009)
Shortly after leaving London Heathrow airport in December 1988, Pan Am flight 103 exploded above Lockerbie , Scotland killing 270 people. Investigators soon discovered that a bomb in the forward cargo compartment had taken down the plane.
Directed By
- George D'Amato
Writer
- Larry Bambrick
Sight Unseen (1996 Charki Dadri mid-air collision) (2009)
Find out what went wrong when a Kazakhstan Airlines jet and a Saudi Airways plane collided in the worst mid-air crash in aviation history, killing 349 people on November 12, 1996.
Directed By
- James Hyslop
Writer
- Christopher Blow
Scratching the Surface (China Airlines Flight 611) (2009)
Rescuers have to look to the past to solve the riddle of Flight 611, a China Airlines 747 that disappeared 20 minutes after taking off.
Directed By
- Ian Robertson
Writer
- Alex Bystram
Blown Apart (Partnair Flight 394) (2009)
On September 8, 1989, Partnair Flight 94, a charter from Oslo to Hamburg, suddenly begins to dive from 22 thousand feet. The aging propeller plane eventually crashes into the sea, killing all 55 people on board.
Directed By
- Su Rynard
Writer
- Carl Knutson
Operation Babylift (1975 Tan Son Nhut C-5 accident) (2009)
Near the close of the Vietnam War, the United States launched Operation Babylift, a mass evacuation of children from war torn Vietnam. On April 4th 1975, the first Babylift flight ended in tragedy when a Lockheed C-5 Galaxy carrying 314 passengers crashed during an emergency landing at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, South Vietnam killing 138.
Directed By
- Tim Wolochatiuk
Writer
- Larry Bambrick