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Mayday - Season 13 Episode 4 : Queens Catastrophe (American Airlines Flight 587)

Jan 01, 1970 00:46:14m

274 votes

Documentary, Drama, Crime

Seasons and episodes

Episode List

Ep 1 Fight to the Death (British European Airways Flight 548)

2013-12-16

Ep 2 Disaster on the Potomac (Air Florida Flight 90)

2013-12-23

Ep 3 Speed Trap (Hughes Airwest Flight 706)

2013-12-30

Ep 4 Queens Catastrophe (American Airlines Flight 587)

2014-01-06

Ep 5 Lost in Translation (Crossair Flight 498)

2014-01-13

Ep 6 Massacre Over the Mediterranean (Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870)

2014-01-20

Ep 7 Terror in Paradise (Air Moorea Flight 1121)

2014-01-27

Ep 8 Imperfect Pitch (XL Airways Germany Flight 888T)

2014-02-03

Ep 9 Into the Eye of the Storm (Hurricane Hunters NOAA42)

2014-02-10

Ep 10 Titanic in the Sky (Qantas Flight 32)

2014-02-17

Synopsis

On 12 November 2001, just two months after the September 11 attacks, American Airlines Flight 587 spirals out of control after taking off from John F. Kennedy Airport. Shortly after, the aircraft crashes into the suburb of Queens, killing all 260 people on board and five people on the ground. The vertical stabilizer had detached from the aircraft because of improper rudder use by the first officer, after encountering wake turbulence from a Boeing 747-400 that had taken off minutes earlier.