New Air Crash Investigation

[anonymous-user]

Just a quick heads up 2nd one tonight on National Geo Channel @ 9:00pm

Hudson River Splashdown tonight - looking forward to this one

[Frankeh]

I have a love hate relationship with Air Crash Investigation.
Sure, as a TV viewer it's great to watch but as a flier I feel a little disheartened when it's reached series 11..

[ollie854]

On now

[VeeFour]

Just set it to record on +1.

Should be a good one.

[thatone1967]

What the hell is an MD10! Not like this programme to get stuff like this wrong!

[VeeFour]

thatone1967 said:

What the hell is an MD10! Not like this programme to get stuff like this wrong!

'The DC-10 was succeeded by the related McDonnell Douglas MD-11. McDonnell Douglas, then Boeing after the two companies merged, upgraded some DC-10s with glass cockpits and renamed them MD-10s.'

[thatone1967]

Thanks VeeFour, never knew that!

[VeeFour]

thatone1967 said:

Thanks VeeFour, never knew that!

Neither did I, until I googled it!

[speedchick]

The series started last week with the Heathrow BA short landing.

[thatone1967]

speedchick said:

The series started last week with the Heathrow BA short landing.

discussed here...
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[ilikecars]

Damn it. I really wanted to see the 1st one but completely forgot. Hope it's repeated

[cazzer]

ilikecars said:

Damn it. I really wanted to see the 1st one but completely forgot. Hope it's repeated

Hope? Sure you jest?
Repeated, a thousand times

[thatone1967]

cazzer said:

ilikecars said:

Damn it. I really wanted to see the 1st one but completely forgot. Hope it's repeated

Hope? Sure you jest?
Repeated, a thousand times

..and that's just THIS month!

[bennyboydurham]

VeeFour said:

thatone1967 said:

What the hell is an MD10! Not like this programme to get stuff like this wrong!

'The DC-10 was succeeded by the related McDonnell Douglas MD-11. McDonnell Douglas, then Boeing after the two companies merged, upgraded some DC-10s with glass cockpits and renamed them MD-10s.'

But the shot of the aircraft the narrator was talking about wasn't an MD-10, it looked like a TU-154 to me.

Anyway, ACI is okay. They ham it up a bit and the cockpit mock ups look a bit rubbish, but it's okay. There was a much, much better program about the Hudson crash on Discovery narrated by Harrison Ford a while back. Try to catch that if it comes on again.

[oyster]

Frankeh said:

I have a love hate relationship with Air Crash Investigation.
Sure, as a TV viewer it's great to watch but as a flier I feel a little disheartened when it's reached series 11..

Except that the first 2 episodes (BA 777 at LHR and USAir birdstrike) have had a 100% survival rate.

Air Crash Investigation is running out of major fatal crashes, because dlying has now become so safe.

[Adz The Rat]

I wanted to watch the Hudson river one, is it on Sky Anytime does anyone know?

[Marty Funkhouser]

oyster said:

Except that the first 2 episodes (BA 777 at LHR and USAir birdstrike) have had a 100% survival rate.

Air Crash Investigation is running out of major fatal crashes, because dlying has now become so safe.

Or they're now going through ones that didnt kill hundreds or like this weeks one is incredibly gruesome - it was the most disturbing one I've seen.