New Delhi : National Geographic Channel has introduced a new season of Air Crash Investigation which will be aired @ 10:30 PM during the weekdays (Monday to Friday) starting from August 4th.
The New season of the “Air Crash Investigation” will showcase 10 episodes with new set of cases across the coming 3 weeks.
As a coincidence the new season is getting launched at a time where the year 2014 was regarded as the worst year of aviation disasters with four major Air Disasters involving the civilian aircrafts had occurred one after the other starting from the mysterious disappearance of MH 370, Shooting down of MH17 pro Russian rebels in Ukraine, followed by a Crash landing at Taiwanese Island involving an ATR 72 aircraft due to Bad Weather and Air Algeria Crash in Northern Mali,
However, NGC while responding to the mail query from tvnews4u.com on the timing of the new season in this disastrous occasion stated that “Air Crash Investigations” has been a long running and popular show franchise on Nat Geo, where the objective has always been to investigate the actual causes behind some of the biggest aviation disasters and learn from them. The recent disasters are very unfortunate and we need to keep learning from past to avoid such incidents in future.
NGC also clarified that it is not going to air any of their series related to the recent disasters and the new series will cover cases which have been already investigated, researched and closed based on extensive research as following :
- Target is Destroyed– A Korean plane over the Sea of Japan was shot down by the Soviets in 1983. All 269 people on board died and we find out how the investigators kept the two superpowers at bay at the height of the Cold War.
- Miami Mystery– Part plane, part speedboat, a twin turbo-prop plane took off from Miami Beach. A tourist catches it on camera as an explosion rips off one wing in mid-air. Investigators uncover what went wrong.
- Terror in the Skies– Pilot Error – One pilot falls asleep in the cockpit. Another suffers a panic attack in the cabin. Yet another, distracted by his laptop, overshoots his destination by 150 miles. Are these freak occurrences or the new normal in air travel? Witness pilot mishaps, as revealed through shocking footage captured by passengers on their cameras and phones. These first-hand accounts, combined with newly released cockpit recordings, give a chilling view into the world of overstressed, undertrained pilots, and what it could mean to passengers if changes aren’t made.
NGC will be airing 10 different series in line to the above mentioned cases and they have already roped in “Airtel” as the Powered by sponsors and the channel also gives parallel feed for regional languages like Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Bangla apart from the main-feed in English
