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Season 38 · Episode 14
Landed Wed, 16 Feb 2011 · 21:00 your time · 1 episode · 1h 0m
Season 38, Episode 14 of NOVA aired Wednesday, 16 February 2011 at 9pm ET on PBS.
- S38E14Crash of Flight 447On June 1, 2009, Flight AF447, an Air France Airbus A330 flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of all 228 lives. How could a state-of-the-art airliner with elaborate electronic safety and navigation features and a faultless safety record simply fall out of the sky? NOVA assembles a team of seasoned pilots, engineers, and safety experts to examine the evidence that emerged in the weeks following this horrific disaster. What led Flight 447's crew to fly straight into a towering thunderstorm? With expert testimony, satellite weather images, and messages transmitted by the doomed plane's computer system, NOVA pieces together the fatal chain of events.
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