Dangers dans le ciel
TV Series (2003 - 2013+)
Also known as:
MaydayAir Disasters (Québec)
Air Emergency (USA)
Air Crash Investigation(s) (English title)
Starring:
Gérard Feldzer (expert narrator on Season One (french braodcasting))
Each episode of 52 minutes includes two parts. The first one tells the chronology of a flight, with aviation experts and eyewitnesses, usually from the boarding until the drama. In the second part, the enquiry is told until its conclusions and the consequences on industry and airline companies are exposed.
Please look at the discussion tab to know and complete the episodes already 'online'. Thanks ! LVCDC 04:13, 15 September 2013 (MDT)
Season One
Airbus A330-243
Ep 1.06 Flying on Empty (Air Transat flight 236)
Registration C-GITS, c/n 271.
Airbus A320
Ep 1.06 Flying on Empty (Air Transat flight 236)
Airbus A340-313
Ep 1.06 Flying on Empty (Air Transat flight 236)
Boeing 737-823
Ep 1.06 Flying on Empty (Air Transat flight 236)
Boeing 747-433M
Ep 1.06 Flying on Empty (Air Transat flight 236)
Various Aircraft
Ep 1.06 Flying on Empty (Air Transat flight 236)
Background is an Airbus A320-212 from Northwest Airlines with another A320 on the left.
Boeing 767-260ER
Ep 1.06 Flying on Empty (Air Transat flight 236)
Boeing 767-260ER of Ethiopian Airlines, Flight 961 (subject of the Ep. 3.06).
Sikorsky S-76
Ep 1.06 Flying on Empty (Air Transat flight 236)
De Havilland Canada DHC-8-102 Dash 8
Ep 1.06 Flying on Empty (Air Transat flight 236)
De Havilland Canada DHC-8-102 Dash 8 of Air Nova in the colors of the new millenium (bottom right).
Sikorsky HH-3F
Ep 1.06 Flying on Empty (Air Transat flight 236)
Among several airliners, a US Coast Guard Sikorsky HH-3F easy to identify with its white/red paint scheme.
Season Two
Season Three
Airbus A300B2-203
Ep. 3.01 Mistaken Identity (Iran Air Flight 655)
Meant representing Iran Air Flight 655 , EP-IBU. But this livery was adopted in 1995, seven years later of the event. It must be another Airbus in the fleet.
Airbus A310-203
Ep 3.07 Kid in the Cockpit
Boeing 767-38A/ER
Ep 3.07 Kid in the Cockpit
Airbus A310-308/ET
Ep 3.07 Kid in the Cockpit
CGI used for reconstitution scenes.
Airbus A310-300
Ep 3.07 Kid in the Cockpit
Airbus A320
Ep 3.07 Kid in the Cockpit
Desk model just behind the Airbus A310 one.
Antonov An-124 Ruslan
Ep 3.07 Kid in the Cockpit
Desk model on the left.
Boeing 707-359B
Ep 3.07 Kid in the Cockpit
CGI of an Avianca airplane.
Boeing 737-297/Advanced
Ep 3.11 Hanging by a Thread
Reg. N730AL Boeing 737-297, (s/n 22631) built in 1982 wears Aloha Airlines colors.
Boeing 737-297
Ep 3.11 Hanging by a Thread
Reg. N73711 Boeing 737-297 (s/n 20209) used for Aloha Airlines Flight 243 on 28 April 1988.
Baptised Queen Liliuokalani, this airplane built in 1969 was the 152nd 737. Always in service with Aloha where it had accumulated 89 680 flight cycles / 35 496 hours in 19 years !
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Boeing 737-236/Advanced
Ep 3.11 Hanging by a Thread
New (and last) Aloha paint scheme (with a tail in the colors of Hawaiian Air at left).
Boeing 737-7Q8
Ep 3.11 Hanging by a Thread
Boeing 747-436
Ep 3.07 Kid in the Cockpit
Boeing 747-400 of British Airways.
Grumman F-14A Tomcat
Ep. 3.01 Mistaken Identity (Iran Air Flight 655)
First, a CGI in the background of the Airbus taxiing.
Then an archive footage of an iranian Tomcat with the paint scheme used at that time.
Lockheed WP-3 Orion
Ep. 3.01 Mistaken Identity (Iran Air Flight 655)
Archive shot of the weather variant (only used by the USA) despite it was an iranian standart P-3C which was involved in the incident.
Mil Mi-17
Ep 3.07 Kid in the Cockpit
McDonnell Douglas F-4 C Phantom II
Ep. 3.01 Mistaken Identity (Iran Air Flight 655)
Firing an AMG-65 from a McDonnell Douglas F-4 C Phantom II
Robinson R44
Ep 3.11 Hanging by a Thread
Sikorsky SH-60 Seahwak
Ep. 3.01 Mistaken Identity (Iran Air Flight 655)
Tupolev Tu-95
Ep 3.07 Kid in the Cockpit
Tupolev Tu-134A
Ep 3.07 Kid in the Cockpit
Tupolev Tu-154B-2
Ep 3.07 Kid in the Cockpit
Tupolev Tu-154M
Ep 3.07 Kid in the Cockpit
Unidentified Aircraft
Ep 3.07 Kid in the Cockpit
Ep 3.11 Hanging by a Thread
Probably a Douglas DC-3 without engines.
Various Aircraft
Ep 3.07 Kid in the Cockpit
Including a Boeing 757-23APF of DHL and a landing Boeing 747-48EM of Asiana Cargo.
Ep 3.11 Hanging by a Thread
Lot of Cessna (probably 152 & 172) with a twin engine airframe.
Season Four
Season Five
Airbus A321-211
Ep. 5.02 Gimli Glider
Antonov An-124 Ruslan & Various Aircraft
Ep. 5.02 Gimli Glider
Seen on panels behind the interviewee.
Bell CH-146 Griffon
Ep. 5.02 Gimli Glider
Boeing 737-300
Ep. 5.02 Gimli Glider
Boeing 767-233 (CGI)
Ep. 5.02 Gimli Glider
CGI of the accident aircraft. Registration C-GAUN, c/n 22520 built in 1983. Ran out of fuel and made an emergency landing at Gimli Industrial Park airport on July 23, 1983. All occupants survived.
Boeing 767-233
Ep. 5.02 Gimli Glider
Registration C-GAUN, c/n 22520 built in 1983. Ran out of fuel and made an emergency landing at Gimli Industrial Park airport on July 23, 1983. All occupants survived.
Boeing 767-233/ER
Ep. 5.02 Gimli Glider
McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32
Ep. 5.02 Gimli Glider
Registration C-FTLU, c/n 47196 built in 1968. Air Canada Flight 797 caught on fire mid-flight and had to make an emergency landing at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport on 2 June 1983. 23 passengers died.
Boeing 747-437
Ep 5.07 "Air India: Explosive Evidence"
CGI.
Real one.
Boeing 737 & Boeing 747
Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King
Ep 5.07 "Air India: Explosive Evidence"
Westland WS-61 Sea King HAR 3
Ep 5.07 "Air India: Explosive Evidence"
Boeing 747-237B
Ep 5.07 "Air India: Explosive Evidence"
Remains of Air India Flight 182, subject of the episode.
Boeing 747
Ep 5.07 "Air India: Explosive Evidence"
McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10
Ep 5.07 "Air India: Explosive Evidence"
Registration TC-JAV, c/n 46704/29. Flight 981, Crashed over Ermenonville near Paris on the 3 March 1974.
Boeing 747-128
Ep 5.07 "Air India: Explosive Evidence"
On 17 May 1997, the FAA, in conjunction with the Civil Aviation Authority in the United Kingdom, conducted a blast test on an ex-Air France Boeing 747 c/n 20355/105. (reg. F-BPVE when in service).
Airbus A320-214
Ep 5.07 "Air India: Explosive Evidence"
Unidentified Airbus
Anonymous ones.
Bell UH-1 Iroquois
Ep. 5.10 Phantom Strike
Boeing 737-8BK
Ep. 5.10 Phantom Strike
Boeing 737-8EH
Ep. 5.10 Phantom Strike
Registration PR-GTL, c/n 34962/2215.
Boeing 737-8EH
Ep. 5.10 Phantom Strike
Registration PR-GTD, c/n 34653/2039. Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 broke up and crashed after its wing was cut off by the Bombardier listed below.
Embraer EMB-135BJ Legacy 600
Ep. 5.10 Phantom Strike
Registration N600XL, c/n 14500965 built in 2006.
Embraer ERJ 145 family & Boeing 737 & Airbus A319 & Boeing 747
Ep. 5.10 Phantom Strike
Top to bottom.
Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma
Ep. 5.10 Phantom Strike
Sikorsky UH-60L Black Hawk
Ep. 5.10 Phantom Strike
Various Models
Ep. 5.10 Phantom Strike
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, Lockheed C-130 Hercules, Consolidated B-24 Liberator, Armstrong Whitworth A.W.38 Whitley, and Consolidated PBY Catalina are recognizable.
IAI 1125 Astra
Ep. 5.10 Phantom Strike
Known too as Gulfstream G100. False registration.
Unidentified Aircrarft
Ep. 5.10 Phantom Strike
Orange desk model on the bottom left.
Season Six
Season Seven
Lockheed C-5 Galaxy
Ep. 7.04 Operation Babylift (Tan Son Nhut C-5 accident)
Bell UH-1H Iroquois
Ep. 7.04 Operation Babylift (Tan Son Nhut C-5 accident)
Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk
Ep. 7.04 Operation Babylift (Tan Son Nhut C-5 accident)
Boeing CH-47 Chinook
Ep. 7.04 Operation Babylift (Tan Son Nhut C-5 accident)
Curtiss-Wright C-46A Commando
Ep. 7.04 Operation Babylift (Tan Son Nhut C-5 accident)
Behind the Iroquois.
Unidentified Aircraft
Ep. 7.04 Operation Babylift (Tan Son Nhut C-5 accident)
Inside a twin enginned light aircraft. Piper PA-23 Apache ?
Bell 204
Ep. 7.04 Operation Babylift (Tan Son Nhut C-5 accident)
Used by Air America.
Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight
Ep. 7.04 Operation Babylift (Tan Son Nhut C-5 accident)
Bell 205
Ep. 7.04 Operation Babylift (Tan Son Nhut C-5 accident)
Gulfstream V
Ep. 7.04 Operation Babylift (Tan Son Nhut C-5 accident)
ATR 72-212
Ep. 7.07 Frozen in Flight (American Eagle Flight 4184)
CGI of American Eagle's ATR 72-212, registered N401AM.
Eurocopter AS350 Ecureuil
Ep. 7.07 Frozen in Flight (American Eagle Flight 4184)
Piper PA-32-300 Cherokee Six
Ep. 7.07 Frozen in Flight (American Eagle Flight 4184)
McDonnell Douglas MD-82
Ep. 7.07 Frozen in Flight (American Eagle Flight 4184)
Unidentified Aircraft
Ep. 7.07 Frozen in Flight (American Eagle Flight 4184)
Diamond DA40 Diamond Star & Diamond DA42 Twin Star
Ep. 7.07 Frozen in Flight (American Eagle Flight 4184)
Diamond DA42 Twin Star on the left background.
De Havilland Canada DHC-6-100 Twin Otter
Ep. 7.07 Frozen in Flight (American Eagle Flight 4184)
Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker
Ep. 7.07 Frozen in Flight (American Eagle Flight 4184)
Boeing 737-832
Ep. 7.07 Frozen in Flight (American Eagle Flight 4184)
Reg. N374DA, a Boeing 737-832 (c/n 29622) of Delta Air Lines Inc.
Season Eight
Season Nine
Boeing 747-230B
Ep 9.05 Target is Destroyed
Registration HL7442, c/n 20559/186. Shot down by Soviets near Sakhalin islands on 1.9.83.
Boeing 747-131
Ep 9.05 Target is Destroyed
Airbus A340
Ep 9.05 Target is Destroyed
Antonov An-26
Ep 9.05 Target is Destroyed
Boeing 737-7H4
Ep 9.05 Target is Destroyed
Registration N427WN, c/n 29831/1119.
Boeing RC-135V Rivet Joint
Ep 9.05 Target is Destroyed
Boeing E-3 Sentry
Ep 9.05 Target is Destroyed
In the background, under the black radome.
Bell 412
Ep 9.05 Target is Destroyed
McDonnell Douglas C-9B Skytrain II
Ep 9.05 Target is Destroyed
Unidentified Aircraft
Ep 9.05 Target is Destroyed
Unidentified Aircraft
Ep 9.05 Target is Destroyed
Probably the gun muzzle of a North American FJ-2 Fury (I don't think a soviet fighter has such one).
Unidentified Aircraft
Ep 9.05 Target is Destroyed
Mig 19 or Sukhoï Su 7 ?
ATR 42
Ep 9.05 Target is Destroyed
The investigation's second life : a new start occured in 1993 at Paris (note the french flag along the wall). Perhaps an ATR model on the desk ?
Ilyushin Il-14
Ep 9.05 Target is Destroyed
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 ML
Ep 9.05 Target is Destroyed
MiG-23ML Yellow 70 seen in other documentaries at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23BN
Ep 9.05 Target is Destroyed
Or Mig 27 (both dedicated to ground attack).
Sukhoi Su-15TM
Ep 9.05 Target is Destroyed
A CGI of the cockpit.
A CGI of the cannon fire as warning shot.
Another CGI view of Red 17.
Sukhoi Su-20
Ep 9.05 Target is Destroyed
Sukhoi Su-7UM/UMK
Ep 9.05 Target is Destroyed
The both open canopies in the background are those of this trainer.
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21
Ep 9.05 Target is Destroyed
Seen in the background of the departure of the Sukhoi Su-20.
(missing screenshot)
Grumman G-73T Turbo Mallard
Ep. 9 .08 Cracks in the System (Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101)
Grumman G-73T Turbine Mallard N2969 built in 1947 s/n J-27 ; crashed off Florida coast on 19 December 2005.
Eurocopter HH-65 Dolphin
Ep. 9 .08 Cracks in the System (Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101)
Fokker F.VIIb/3m
Ep. 9 .08 Cracks in the System (Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101)
Grumman G-21A Goose
Ep. 9 .08 Cracks in the System (Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101)
Reg. N95467 Grumman G-21A Goose (c/n 1161) built in 1942.
Douglas World Cruiser
Ep. 9 .08 Cracks in the System (Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101)
Fairchild-Swearingen SA226-TC Metro II
Ep. 9 .08 Cracks in the System (Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101)
Bell 222
Ep. 9 .08 Cracks in the System (Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101)
Season Ten
Season Eleven
Unidentified Aircraft
Ep. 06 Turning Point (Northwest Airlines Flight 85)
IAI 1125 Astra / Gulfstream G100 ?
Boeing 747-451
Ep. 06 Turning Point (Northwest Airlines Flight 85)
Boeing 747-428F/SCD
Ep. 06 Turning Point (Northwest Airlines Flight 85)
Reg. N6005C prototype of the Boeing 747-400F (c/n 25632/968).
Season Twelve
Yakovlev Yak-42D
Ep. 09 Lokomotiv Hockey Team Disaster (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster)
A CGI of the ill-fated transport of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl professional ice hockey team.
Reg. RA-42365 Yakovlev Yak-42D (c/n 4520424811447) of Aeroflot Plus.
Piaggio P.180 Avanti
Ep. 09 Lokomotiv Hockey Team Disaster (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster)
Boeing 747
Ep. 09 Lokomotiv Hockey Team Disaster (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster)
Registered in the USA.
Tupolev Tu-134A-3
Ep. 09 Lokomotiv Hockey Team Disaster (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster)
Crash of the Tupolev Tu-134A-3 registered RA-65691.
Unidentified Aircraft
Ep. 09 Lokomotiv Hockey Team Disaster (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster)
Season Thirteen
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See also
- Unidentified Aircraft
- Airbus A300
- Airbus A310
- Airbus A320 family
- Airbus A330
- Airbus A340
- Antonov An-124 Ruslan
- Antonov An-26
- Armstrong Whitworth A.W.38 Whitley
- ATR 42
- ATR 72
- Bell 204/205
- Bell 212/412
- Bell 222
- Bell UH-1 Iroquois
- Boeing 707
- Boeing 737
- Boeing 747
- Boeing 757
- Boeing 767
- Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
- Boeing E-3 Sentry
- Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker
- Boeing RC-135
- Boeing Chinook
- Boeing Vertol CH-46 Sea Knight
- Consolidated B-24 Liberator
- Consolidated PBY Catalina
- Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando
- De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter
- De Havilland Canada DHC-8
- Diamond DA40 Diamond Star
- Diamond DA42 Twin Star
- Douglas World Cruiser
- Embraer ERJ 145 family
- Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma
- Eurocopter AS350 Ecureuil/AStar
- Eurocopter SA/AS365 Dauphin 2
- Fairchild-Swearingen Metroliner
- Fokker F.VII
- Gulfstream V
- Grumman F-14 Tomcat
- Grumman G-21 Goose
- Grumman G-73 Mallard
- IAI Astra
- Ilyushin Il-14
- Lockheed C-130 Hercules
- Lockheed C-5 Galaxy
- Lockheed P-3 Orion
- McDonnell Douglas DC-9
- McDonnell Douglas DC-10
- McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II
- McDonnell Douglas MD-80
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23
- Mil Mi-8/17
- Piaggio P.180 Avanti
- Piper PA-32
- Robinson R44
- Sikorsky CH-3/HH-3
- Sikorsky S-76
- Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King
- Sikorsky UH-60
- Sukhoi Su-7
- Sukhoi Su-15
- Tupolev Tu-95
- Tupolev Tu-134
- Tupolev Tu-154
- Yakovlev Yak-42