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On 26 June 1988, Air France Flight 296Q fails to climb and crashes into trees after performing a flyby during an airshow at Mulhouse-Habsheim Airport, killing three people. The cause of the crash is disputed: the investigation blamed the pilot, but the captain himself claims that the cause was a problem with the fly-by-wire computer.
In March 2011, a French judge filed preliminary manslaughter charges against Air France and Airbus over the crash. [208] The cases against Air France and Airbus were dropped in 2019 and 2011 respectively. [209] [210] [211] A technical investigation was started, the goal of which was to enhance the safety of future flights.
As of 12 January 2025, 276 episodes of Mayday have aired, not including Season 25, including five Science of Disaster specials, three Crash Scene Investigation spin-offs, which do not examine aircraft crashes, and a sub-series labelled The Accident Files that aired six seasons.
Air Astana Flight 1388 was a repositioning flight from Lisbon to Almaty, with a refueling stop in Minsk. On 11 November 2018, shortly after takeoff, it experienced severe control issues. On 11 November 2018, shortly after takeoff, it experienced severe control issues.
PARIS (Reuters) -A pilot died on Friday after the Fouga Magister jet which he was flying during an airshow in Lavandou, southern France, crashed into the Mediterranean sea, said French authorities.
The events of Flight 301 were featured in "Mixed Signals", a Season 5 (2007) episode of the Canadian TV series Mayday [8] (called Air Emergency and Air Disasters in the U.S. and Air Crash Investigation in the UK and elsewhere around the world). The dramatization was broadcast with the title "The Plane That Wouldn't Talk" in the United Kingdom ...
The documentary television series Mayday, also known as Air Disasters, examined the crash and investigation in a Season 11 episode titled "Deadly Reputation" (and alternatively "Nightmare Runway" and "Disaster Runway"), which features interviews with investigators and a dramatic recreation of the accident.
Trapped is a six-episode documentary television series that premiered on November 7, 2007, on the National Geographic Channel.Produced in association with the Canadian National Geographic Channel and Cineflix (which produced Mayday, also known as Air Crash Investigation), the program examined various actual incidents or disasters in which victims were trapped on the site.