Name: Deadly Directive
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 25 min

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Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashes shortly after takeoff.

Air Disasters

Deadly Directive

With a young rising football star on board, a chartered Piper Malibu suddenly disappears from radar over the English Channel.

Lost Star Footballer

Experts investigate the Saudia Flight 163 tragedy, which killed 287 passengers and 14 crew members following an in-flight fire.

Under Fire

Colgan Air 9446 nosedives into the waters off Cape Cod just minutes after takeoff following a four-day maintenance stop.

Pitch Battle

On the 24th of February 1989, part of the right-side fuselage of United Airlines Flight 811 rips off, ejecting nine people from the aircraft and causing explosive decompression; the flight later lands safely at Honolulu without any more loss of life.

Terror over the Pacific

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A look at the catastrophic incidents in aviation history that pushed for safer systems and better emergency protocols; includes dramatic re-enactments and CGI footage.

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