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Mayday (2003), Season 19 is the documentary series you can watch online on iFILM — ten episodes, each rebuilding one real aviation disaster from the recorders up. Cause by cause, the investigators show how a routine flight turned fatal.
The reach this season is wide. Cathay Pacific 780 loses both engines high over the South China Sea, and the crew glides an Airbus A330 down by hand. A wartime P-51 racer spirals into the crowd line at Reno. Cargo DC-8s come apart near Miami and short of a Cuban airbase. There's the Aeroflot Boeing 737 that fell near Perm in foul weather, and the LaMia jet that ran dry over the Colombian mountains with the Chapecoense football squad aboard.
What carries the Canadian show is method, not melodrama — the reconstruction is patient and the engineering is sound. Season 19's strength is its mix of headline crashes and cases most viewers never heard of. Stream Mayday Season 19 online on iFILM.
10 episodes
S19·E1Deadly Descent
En route to Hong Kong, Cathay Pacific Flight 780 is high over the South China Sea when both of the plane's engines fail, turning the Airbus A-330 into a 200-ton glider; the captain takes over manual control and manages to power up one engine.
S19·E2Death Race
Competing in a highly-modified P-51 Mustang at the Reno Air Races, Jimmy Leeward is determined to set a new speed record, but half way through the race, his plane spirals out of control and crashes onto the tarmac in front of the stands.
S19·E3Borderline Tactics
On 18 August 1993, American International Airways Flight 808 stalls, rolls to the right and crashes into the ground 1 quarter of a mile short of the runway while manoeuvring onto final approach to Leeward Point Airfield in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. All 3 crew members on board survive.
S19·E4Fatal Approach
On 4 April 1994, KLM Cityhopper Flight 433 crashes into a field while attempting an emergency landing at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, killing 3 of the 24 people on board.
S19·E5Deadly Pitch
On 7 August 1997, Fine Air Flight 101 stalls and crashes just seconds after taking off from Miami International Airport, killing all 4 people on board and 1 person on the ground.
S19·E6Fatal Climb
On 31 March 1995, TAROM Flight 371 banks steeply to the left and crashes into a field shortly after taking off from Otopeni International Airport, killing all 60 people on board.
S19·E7Runway Runoff
On 20 December 2008, Continental Airlines Flight 1404 veers off the side of the runway, skids across the taxiway and a service road and crashes into a ravine while taking off from Denver International Airport in Denver, Colorado. All 115 passengers and crew members on board survive.
S19·E8Lethal Limits
On 14 September 2008, Aeroflot Flight 821 crashes into a ravine next to a railway line while on final approach to Perm International Airport in Perm, Russia, in poor weather conditions, killing all 88 people on board.
S19·E9Football Tragedy
On 28 November 2016, LaMia Flight 2933, carrying the Brazilian Chapecoense football squad, runs out of fuel and crashes into the side of a mountain after entering a holding pattern to land at José María Córdova International Airport in Rionegro, Colombia. 71 of the 77 people on board are killed.
S19·E10Slam Dunk
On 7 January 1994, United Express Flight 6291, operating for Atlantic Coast Airlines, crashes 1.2 miles short of the runway during final approach to Port Columbus International Airport after entering a stall. The two pilots, the flight attendant, and two passengers are killed in the crash.
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