One of our more obscure local TV stations scatters episodes of this series into different time slots. It's not easy to know when they will pop up, but I'm hooked. The typical show is purely documentary, using real survivors (if there were any) or re-enactments of key individuals -- pilots, cabin crew, investigators, controllers -- in actual air crashes or incidents.
The format is always the same: fairly quick lead-up to crash re-creation, showing the context, then a sometimes exhaustive explanation of what caused the problem. Implications for the aviation industry are always made clear, and subsequent corrective actions.
Actually I want to give this a "10" but it can be painful to sit through these horrific crashes week after week, knowing that at some point I might actually be in an airplane again. Yet the shows are interesting and instructive, and I'll keep watching -- though it would be better if there were no more crashes to examine.
The format is always the same: fairly quick lead-up to crash re-creation, showing the context, then a sometimes exhaustive explanation of what caused the problem. Implications for the aviation industry are always made clear, and subsequent corrective actions.
Actually I want to give this a "10" but it can be painful to sit through these horrific crashes week after week, knowing that at some point I might actually be in an airplane again. Yet the shows are interesting and instructive, and I'll keep watching -- though it would be better if there were no more crashes to examine.
