Air Disasters: Season 5
Season 5 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 4.
- 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 5 Progress Shield
Fight to the Death
Feb 8, 2015 · 45 min
On Jun 18, 1972 — BEA Flight 548 (Hawker Siddeley Trident): Minutes after takeoff from London Heathrow, a jet bound for Brussels fell from the sky near Staines, leaving investigato
Speed Trap
Feb 15, 2015 · 45 min
On Jun 6, 1971 — Hughes Airwest Flight 706 (DC-9): Climbing out of Los Angeles, an airliner collides with a Marine Corps F-4 Phantom over the San Gabriel Mountains, forcing civilia
Lost in Translation
Feb 22, 2015 · 45 min
On Jan 10, 2000 — Crossair Flight 498 (Saab 340): A commuter flight from Zurich to Dresden crashes two minutes after takeoff — the airline's first fatal accident in 25 years.
Tragedy on the Potomac
Mar 1, 2015 · 45 min
On Jan 13, 1982 — Air Florida Flight 90 (Boeing 737): Departing Washington National in a snowstorm, a jet strikes the 14th Street Bridge and plunges into the icy Potomac, just two
Queens Catastrophe
Mar 8, 2015 · 45 min
On Nov 12, 2001 — American Airlines Flight 587 (Airbus A300): Two months after 9/11, a flight bound for the Dominican Republic crashes into a Queens neighborhood moments after leav
Into the Eye of the Storm
Mar 15, 2015 · 45 min
On Sep 15, 1989 — NOAA 42 "Kermit" (WP-3D Orion): A hurricane hunter crew flies into Hurricane Hugo east of Barbados, where turbulence beyond anything forecast puts the aircraft an
Massacre Over the Mediterranean
Mar 22, 2015 · 45 min
On Jun 27, 1980 — Itavia Flight 870 (DC-9): On descent toward Palermo, an Italian airliner vanishes into the Tyrrhenian Sea near Ustica — the start of one of aviation's most contes
Imperfect Pitch
Mar 29, 2015 · 45 min
On Nov 27, 2008 — XL Airways Germany Flight 888T (Airbus A320): During a test flight before handover to a new owner, a jet plunges into the Mediterranean off the French coast, and
Getting Out Alive
Apr 5, 2015 · 45 min
Special — Multiple incidents, including the 2009 "Miracle on the Hudson": Most air accidents are survivable. Survivors' stories reveal what makes the difference, and how the indust
Terror in Paradise
Apr 12, 2015 · 45 min
On Aug 9, 2007 — Air Moorea Flight 1121 (DHC-6 Twin Otter): A seven-minute island hop from Moorea to Tahiti ends when the small plane suddenly noses over and dives into the ocean s
Titanic in the Sky
Apr 19, 2015 · 45 min
On Nov 4, 2010 — Qantas Flight 32 (Airbus A380): Minutes after leaving Singapore, an engine on the world's largest airliner explodes, and the crew must manage a cascade of failures