Air Crash Investigation: Season 5

Currently screening on National Geographic in Australia, NZ, and the UK! Also known as Mayday (on Discovery Channel) in some parts of the world.


Major real-life air disasters are depicted in this TV series. Each episode features a detailed dramatized reconstruction of the incident based on ~censored~ voice recorders and air traffic control transcripts, as well as eyewitnesses recounts and interviews with aviation experts. Sometimes, interviews with investigators who dealt with the disaster or even actual footage are featured.

IMDB Link:
Code:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386950/

Password (if needed): strataphore



Season 05 Episode 01: Dead Weight
Code:A small commuter aircraft, Air Midwest Express Flight 5481 plummets into a hanger of Charlotte/Douglas International Airport seconds after take-off from there on a flight to Greenville.

Code:http://rapidshare.com/files/106252583/49746945d880afb1004239b641ce77bd.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/106252586/49746945d880afb1004239b641ce77bd.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/106252604/49746945d880afb1004239b641ce77bd.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/106252521/49746945d880afb1004239b641ce77bd.part4.rar

Season 05 Episode 02: Behind Closed Doors
Code:A brand new McDonnell Douglas DC-10 just a few months old operating American Airlines Flight 96 from Detroit, Michigan to Buffalo, New York suffers an explosive decompression after a cargo door burst. The pilots forced at emergency landing at Windsor, Ontario. However, the fault with the door is not repaired and two years later, Turkish Airlines Flight 981 suffers a similar blowout during a flight from Paris to London. This time, the DC-10's hydraulic system was damaged and it smashed into a forest in Senlis, killing all 346 on board, thus making it the worst aviation disaster at that time.

Code:http://rapidshare.com/files/106339699/b10befcbd23da90379f0cf83ad97b25d.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/106339694/b10befcbd23da90379f0cf83ad97b25d.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/106339608/b10befcbd23da90379f0cf83ad97b25d.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/106339661/b10befcbd23da90379f0cf83ad97b25d.part4.rar

Season 05 Episode 03: Deadly Glide
Code:A Boeing 767-233 jet, Air Canada Flight 143, ran completely out of fuel at 41,000 feet (12,000m) altitude, about halfway through its flight from Montreal to Edmonton. The crew was able to glide the aircraft safely to an emergency landing at Gimli Industrial Park Airport, a former airbase at Gimli, Manitoba.

Code:http://rapidshare.com/files/105508716/7b8a2aba30e128edc79fc16a95e17a19.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/105508719/7b8a2aba30e128edc79fc16a95e17a19.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/105508699/7b8a2aba30e128edc79fc16a95e17a19.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/105508713/7b8a2aba30e128edc79fc16a95e17a19.part4.rar

Season 05 Episode 04: Slammed to the Ground
Code:Delta Air Lines Flight 191 crashed while on approach to the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, killing 8 of 11 crew members and 126 of the 152 passengers on board and one person on the ground: a total of 135 deaths. This accident is one of the few commercial air crashes in which the meteorological phenomenon known as microburst-induced wind shear was a direct contributing factor.

Code:http://rapidshare.com/files/106040474/ff2eaf83fedbcf095b4d5565f223b982.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/106040482/ff2eaf83fedbcf095b4d5565f223b982.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/106040508/ff2eaf83fedbcf095b4d5565f223b982.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/106040528/ff2eaf83fedbcf095b4d5565f223b982.part4.rar

Season 05 Episode 05: Southern Storm
Code:Southern Airways Flight 242 in a flight from Huntsville, Alabama to Atlanta, Georgia got caught up in a severe thunderstorm and got hit by hailstones which were the size of baseballs. The McDonnell DC-9-31 jet, registered N1335U lost both engines and was too far away from Atalanta or any other airport and was forced to make an emergency landing on a highway in New Hope, Paulding County, Georgia. However, before it stopped, the jet collided with a gas station and exploded, killing 70 people (including 8 on the ground).

Code:http://rapidshare.com/files/104707875/fb82da99acbd33bc05d2783348aab627.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/104707839/fb82da99acbd33bc05d2783348aab627.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/104707864/fb82da99acbd33bc05d2783348aab627.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/104707857/fb82da99acbd33bc05d2783348aab627.part4.rar

Season 05 Episode 06: Cargo Conspiracy
Code:South African Airways Flight 295 starts filling with smoke. A fire has erupted in the cargo area but it can't land because it's too high in the air. The passengers choke on the toxic fumes but there's only one way to clear the smoke: the crew must attempt a rarely used and risky maneuver which is opening the doors in flight.

Code:http://rapidshare.com/files/106457909/a018baa5b031f5cff8479ce37a49488e.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/106457812/a018baa5b031f5cff8479ce37a49488e.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/106457814/a018baa5b031f5cff8479ce37a49488e.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/106457819/a018baa5b031f5cff8479ce37a49488e.part4.rar

Season 05 Episode 07: Explosive Evidence ***PART 3 FIXED, SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE***
Code:Air India Flight 182 flying over the Ireland coast exploded in mid-air killing all 329 on board. Investigators unfold a shocking discovery: this was a bombing.

Code:http://rapidshare.com/files/108112469/771ce75e929e3207e3eb84e60ce604a0.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/108112477/771ce75e929e3207e3eb84e60ce604a0.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/109116637/771ce75e929e3207e3eb84e60ce604a0.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/108112463/771ce75e929e3207e3eb84e60ce604a0.part4.rar

Season 05 Episode 08: The Plane That Wouldn't Talk
Code:Birgenair Flight 301 was a scheduled Puerto Plata-Gander-Berlin-Frankfurt flight. The Boeing 757-225 on the route, operated by Turkish-managed Birgenair partner Alas Nacionales, crashed.

Code:http://rapidshare.com/files/109491962/af5e8c5cfce052d2980b5b2dfb93ed1f.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/109491966/af5e8c5cfce052d2980b5b2dfb93ed1f.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/109491930/af5e8c5cfce052d2980b5b2dfb93ed1f.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/109491965/af5e8c5cfce052d2980b5b2dfb93ed1f.part4.rar

Season 05 Episode 09: Who's at the Controls?
Code:An explosion is heard and seen in the vicinity of Miami International Airport. Eastern Airlines Flight 401 was scheduled to land at that same moment. Actually, the L-1011 has crashed in the Everglades because the landing gear light did not turn on and the pilots got distracted while their plane was descending silently. Over a hundred people died.

Code:http://rapidshare.com/files/119949911/65957fea2399bcd284a5d71acafa7a9c.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119950086/65957fea2399bcd284a5d71acafa7a9c.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119950116/65957fea2399bcd284a5d71acafa7a9c.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/119950212/65957fea2399bcd284a5d71acafa7a9c.part4.rar

Season 05 Episode 10: Radio Silence ***JUST UPLOADED***
Code:A GOL Boeing 737 and an ExcelAir Embraer Legacy business jet collided in mid-air over the Amazon killing 154 people. The passenger jet crashes and the Legacy is badly damaged, but it manages to land. Its the deadliest plane crash in Brazil's aviation before the crash of TAM Flight 3054.

Code:http://rapidshare.com/files/130107623/4520b14fc5019ebba6130383b24173d3.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/130107586/4520b14fc5019ebba6130383b24173d3.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/130107560/4520b14fc5019ebba6130383b24173d3.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/130109054/4520b14fc5019ebba6130383b24173d3.part4.rar

This is the complete Season 5 of Air Crash Investigation. When new episodes are out, i.e. from Season 6, I will upload them, and create a new thread for it. So please check out for the new thread! Thanks for all your support all along guys!

Enjoy!
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