Talk:Les chevaliers du ciel (1987 TV Series)

Credit

A long term project hold several times due to difficulties to find episodes then to their very poor quality.
I send lots of thanks to JCC and mike962 (at IMCDB) who kindly provided several screenshot -most still insuitable with online status- and several web sources which help me to list all the aircraft seen throughout the two seasons.
Neverless, aircraft registration are unreadable (but seven of them; see the main page) and sometimes even the recogniition of the aircraft is hasardous (so blurred ... given a 'foggy' shape despite the nice weather during the filming).
This does not allow to check if an aircraft has been seen elsewhere or to identify the place (two times, the airport/base is given to be Istres Le Tubé ... if right, this would led to a frequent place to be added to the dedicated page).
Still looking for a decent copies ...
LVCDC (talk) 22:39, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

36 heures (36 hours)

Episode 6 of Season One (1987). Tanguy is chasing a "British transport plane" in which all occupants are under hypoxia.
Such a case really occured on 18 May 1983 when a Learjet 25B registered D-CDPD and flying from Wien-Schwechat International Airport, Vienna, Austria to Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel Airport, Hamburg, Germany, did not respond to controllers' requests 40 minutes after takeoff. Decision was taken to dispatch a fighter plane and the military crew confirmed that there was no activity and no movement on board once he reached the flying Learjet. It continued in flight at 39,000 feet (12,000 m) until its fuel was exhausted. It crashed into the Atlantic 350 miles (560 km) northwest of Scotland. Few debris were found while the main wreckage disappeared in the sea with all three occupants.
Probable cause: Due to lack of evidences, the exact cause of the accident could not be determined. However, the assumption that the accident was the consequence of an unexpected cabin depressurization (and so hypoxia) was not ruled out.
Another 1980s historical fact, closest to the episode is about an undetermined flight aircraft, flying from Great Britain and operating several 360° turn and drifted gently towards France. Without response to air control, French fighter jets were dispatched to take a look and spotted the two crew members, visibly slumped over in their seats, oxygen masks hanging down. Clearly, both were dead and as the plane continued to drift towards Brittany, it was decided to shoot the plane down before it overflew the continent but eventually the plane ran out of fuel and crashed into The Channel / La Manche by itself.
in August 2005 aboard a Boeing 737 (Helios Airways 522, Dangers dans le ciel / Mayday - Season Four Ep. 10) and some years before with N47BA, a Learjet crashed in the South Dakota on October 1999 (Mayday - Season Sixteen Ep. 01).
LVCDC (talk) 01:53, 3 May 2024 (UTC)