Terror at 30000 Feet
Every day there seems to be another plane disaster. Turbulence killing passengers. Aircraft doors blown off mid flight. Drunken passengers. Mechanical failure. Attempted hijacks. Terror. In this series we air stories of the most dramatic, jaw-dropping and terrifying airline disasters and aviation incidents ever - all told by the people who were there.
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Seasons & Episodes
1. BA Flight 2069
It’s 5am on a routine flight from Gatwick to Kenya and a dream holiday has turned into a nightmare. A British Airways jumbo jet is plummeting towards the ground; there is less than a minute left to save the plane before it crashes.
2. Qantas Flight 32
The remarkable, terrifying story of Qantas Flight 32 when, during the London to Sydney flight, the engine explodes and chunks plummet onto the residents below the flight path.
3. Britannia Airways 266A
The terrifying story of how a flight from Cardiff to the Costa Brava hit an electrical storm. When the runway lights failed, the crew found themselves having to land the flight blind.
4. M1 Plane Crash
In one of the worst accidents in British aviation history, a commuter flight to Belfast suffers engine failure, diverts to East Midlands Airport… and heads for the M1 motorway.
5. Mayday
When toxic smoke fills the cabin of a summer holiday flight from Heathrow to Valencia, it’s just the start of their problems. Passenger testimony and phone footage chart the disaster.
6. Flying Pilot
Disaster strikes a flight to Malaga when a front windscreen blows out, sending freezing wind tearing through the passenger cabin and sucking the pilot's head and body out of the plane.