Air Disasters: Season 16
Season 16 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Air Disasters Season 15.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 16 Progress Shield
North Sea Nightmare
Apr 25, 2021 · 45 min
On Dec 15, 2014 — Loganair Flight 6780 (Saab 2000): Struck by lightning on approach to the Shetland Islands, a turboprop suddenly stops answering its pilots' commands and plunges t
Playing Catch Up
May 2, 2021 · 45 min
On Nov 10, 2015 — ExecuFlight Flight 1526 (Hawker 700A): A charter jet on approach to Akron, Ohio slams into an apartment building, and the NTSB untangles an erratic descent and a
Tragic Takeoff
May 9, 2021 · 45 min
On Aug 27, 2006 — Comair Flight 5191 (CRJ-100): In the pre-dawn darkness at Lexington, Kentucky, a commuter jet runs out of pavement before it can get airborne, and investigators r
Grounded: Boeing Max 8
May 16, 2021 · 45 min
On Oct 29, 2018 — Lion Air Flight 610 (Boeing 737 MAX 8): Minutes after leaving Jakarta, one of the world's newest airliners plunges into the Java Sea, and the answers will shake t
Cabin Catastrophe
May 23, 2021 · 45 min
On Apr 17, 2018 — Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 (Boeing 737): An engine explodes at cruise altitude over Pennsylvania, shattering a window and nearly pulling a passenger from the
Meltdown Over Kathmandu
May 30, 2021 · 45 min
On Mar 12, 2018 — US-Bangla Airlines Flight 211 (Dash 8 Q400): Arriving at one of the world's most challenging airports, a flight from Dhaka comes in wildly off profile and crashes
Mission Disaster
Jun 6, 2021 · 45 min
On Feb 6, 1991 — USAF KC-135E "Whale 05": On a Gulf War refueling mission out of Jeddah, a tanker crew is suddenly thrown into a violent fight for control high over the Saudi deser
Caught in a Jam
Jun 13, 2021 · 45 min
On Jun 9, 1995 — Ansett New Zealand Flight 703 (Dash 8): A commuter flight goes down in the hills short of Palmerston North, New Zealand — and for the survivors, the freezing wait
Seconds from Touchdown
Jun 20, 2021 · 45 min
On Jun 18, 1998 — Propair Flight 420 (Fairchild Metro): Twelve minutes after leaving Montreal, a commuter turboprop loses hydraulics, then an engine, then catches fire, as the crew
Deadly Delivery
Jun 27, 2021 · 45 min
On Aug 14, 2013 — UPS Airlines Flight 1354 (Airbus A300): In the pre-dawn darkness, a cargo jet clips trees and crashes a mile short of the runway at Birmingham, Alabama, and inves