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Mayday - Season 5 Episode 2 : Behind Closed Doors (American Airlines Flight 96 and Turkish Airlines Flight 981)

Jan 01, 1970 00:46:14m

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Documentary, Drama, Crime

Seasons and episodes

Episode List

Ep 1 Explosive Evidence (Air India Flight 182)

2008-04-09

Ep 2 Behind Closed Doors (American Airlines Flight 96 and Turkish Airlines Flight 981)

2008-04-16

Ep 3 Southern Storm (Southern Airways Flight 242)

2008-04-23

Ep 4 Dead Weight (Air Midwest Flight 5481)

2008-04-30

Ep 5 Invisible Killer (Delta Air Lines Flight 191)

2008-05-07

Ep 6 Gimli Glider (Air Canada Flight 143)

2008-05-14

Ep 7 Fanning the Flames (South African Airways Flight 295)

2008-05-21

Ep 8 Fatal Distraction (Eastern Airlines Flight 401)

2008-05-28

Ep 9 Mixed Signals (Birgenair Flight 301)

2008-06-04

Ep 10 Phantom Strike (Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907)

2008-06-11

Synopsis

On 12 June 1972, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10, just a few months old, operating as American Airlines Flight 96 from Detroit, Michigan, to Buffalo, New York, suffers an explosive decompression after a cargo door in the lower rear fuselage bursts open. The crew makes an emergency landing at Detroit without any loss of life. Two years later, on 3 March 1974, Turkish Airlines Flight 981 suffers a similar sequence of events during a flight from Paris to London. This time, the DC-10's hydraulic systems are damaged enough that the crew loses control, and the aircraft crashes in a forest near Senlis outside Paris, killing all 346 on board. At the time, it was the worst aviation disaster in history. A design fault with the cargo door mechanism was not rectified after the first accident, and the second DC-10's door opened during flight, causing the crash.

Title	Mayday - Season 5 Episode 2 : Behind Closed Doors (American Airlines Flight 96 and Turkish Airlines Flight 981)
Release Date	Jan 01, 1970
Season	26
Episode	236