7.0Season 26 • Episode 10
LatestOn 15 April 1999, Korean Air Cargo Flight 6316 crashes into an industrial zone shortly after takeoff from Shanghai, China, killing all 3 crew members on board and 5 people on the ground. The pilots lost altitude situational awareness and made abrupt flight control inputs.
Major real-life air disasters are depicted in this series. Each episode features a detailed dramatized reconstruction of the incident based on cockpit voice recorders and air traffic control transcripts, as well as eyewitnesses recounts and interviews with aviation experts.
Production
Painstaking reconstructions using actual CVR transcripts.
Editing
Ruthless cross-cutting between calm pilots and impending doom.
Sound
Those alarms still haunt my dreams, thanks.
Creators
Bernard Vaillot, André Barro
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The show's popularity spawned an entire genre of 'disaster documentary' imitators, but none match its clinical respect for victims.
Many episodes feature voice actors reading CVR transcripts who later discovered they were related to actual victims—production now requires disclosure protocols.
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