Air Disaster Season 20 Episode 8: Release Date, Preview & Streaming Guide

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Going through a life-changing experience like a hijack, plane crash, etc., can be traumatic for those who have experienced the same. Directed by Tim Wolochatiuk and Mark Maingui, the series titled “Air Disasters” stars Jonathan Aries, Stephen Bogaert, John Cox, John Nance, Gregory Faith, Ron Schlid, Tom Hauter and David Learnmount.

Produced by Alex Bystrom and Lana Pitkin, the series ran for 20 successful seasons with over 200 episodes. The episodes of the series have a run time of 54 minutes for the audience to enjoy.

Released on May 15, 2011, the series features the dramatic reenactment of one’s worst nightmare while traveling by plane. The television series depicts major real-life disasters caused by engine failure and human error that can turn into amazing miracles with little courage on the part of passengers and pilots.

A survivor of one of the incidents [Credits: Smithsonian]

The series features interviews with eyewitnesses, aviation experts and investigators. The Canadian documentary series produced by Cineflix accounts for the real-life crisis that happened on air.

Viewers have enthralled the episodes of the series as they are reenactments of real life events The series has attracted audiences since the day of its release. The series is known as Mayday in Canada and Air Disaster in Australia and the UK

The title of the series comes from a French word meaning help me. Being a documentary, the series is loved by the audience, and who doesn’t love a well-made crime documentary?

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Air Disaster Season 20 Episode 7: Recap

The series focuses on the dramatization of real-life crises that occur to passengers in the air during air travel. The series tells the story of passengers’ experiences through a series of interviews featuring investigators, aviation experts, eyewitness testimony, cockpit recorded voices and computer-generated imagery.

The first episode of the series witnessed plane crashes such as American Airlines Flight 77 and TWA Jet Aircraft 800 which triggered a flurry of coverage from the media. The incident led to airport security measures and a high-profile investigation.

wind disaster — Pilots try to control the aircraft [Credits: Smithsonian]

In previous episodes, highly trained pilots of known airlines failed to land a plane correctly. The previous episode opens with the crew of Garuda Flight 200 preparing to land in the early morning on the Indonesian island of Java, a Boeing 737 flying high in the sky.

There were 133 passengers on board the flight, which was at the end of Garuda Indonesia’s journey from the Indonesian capital Jakarta to the city of Yogyakarta. The flight crashed 15 minutes before touchdown and Captain Muhammad Maroto Komar briefed his co-pilot with last-minute details for a safe landing.

ATC gives the clear signal to the pilot to land the aircraft on Runway Zero Niner. With the runway in sight and only 3000 km above the ground, the passengers began to notice that something was wrong with the plane as the speed of the plane was faster than it should have been near the ground.

The pilots failed to control the aircraft, thus causing a crash as the aircraft skidded off the runway and landed in a swampy rice field. Passengers struggle to get off the burning plane while firemen struggle to reach the paddy fields in time. The risk is that if the fuel pump ignites, the plane will explode and all passengers will be killed.

The passengers finally made their escape after two of their fellow passengers opened the exit game. The incident resulted in the death of 21 passengers on board, including the cabin crew. After the accident, the plane investigators start their investigation to find out the reason behind the accident as there could be various reasons behind it.

The episode witnessed two more accidents that occurred when pilots attempted to land aircraft in adverse weather conditions. Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashed after en route from Seoul to San Francisco.

The flight with 291 passengers and 14 crew members crashed during landing. Most of the passengers survived the crash, and plane investigators have begun their investigation into the cause of the crash. The episode ends with aviation investigators filing their final report into the cause of the crash.

Air Disaster Season 20 Episode 8 Preview

The upcoming episode titled “Fatal Disorientation” will see spatial disorientation being the main cause of plane crashes. The episode will see pilots with a lot of experience failing to control their flight, thus leading to emergencies. Pilots in upcoming episodes will be sensitive to the subtle but deadly effects of emergencies.