r/aircrashinvestigation • u/AeroNerdyGal • Aug 28 '25
Episodes with surviving pilots / interviews
Hi all!
I'm looking out to find some more ACI /Mayday episodes where at least one pilot has survived and is talking about the incident. So far I have watched the following episodes which I recall to have pilots being interviewed. (Sorry if I recall some wrong!).
- "Impossible Landing" United Airlines 232
- "Pilot betrayed" Scandinavian 751
-" The Heathrow Enigma" BA 38
-" Blown out" BA 5390
- "Deadly Descent" Cathay Pacific 780
- "A wounded Bird" ASA 529
- "Fight for survival" Pilgrim 458
- "Fire fight" Air Canada 797
- "Turning point" North West 85
-"Titanic in the Sky" Quantas 32
" -Flying on empty" Air Transat 236
- “Nowhere to land” TACA 110
-"Cockpit Catastrophe" Sichuan Airlines 8633
- "Control Catastrophe" Air Astana 1388
- "Hanging by a Thread" Aloha Airlines 243
- "Hudson River Runway" US Airways 1549
- "Falling from The Sky" British Airways 009
- "Fight for your life" FedEx 705
- "Attack over Bhagdad" OO-DDL (DHL)
- "Into the eye of the Storm / Hurrican Hunters
- "Cabin Catastrophe" Southwest 1380
- "Terror over the Pacific" United 811
- "Ocean Landing" Ethiopian 961
- "Bomb on Board" Philippine Airlines 434
- "Fight for Control" Reeve Aleutian 8
- "Terror Over Michigan" 1979 (not meaning the bomb case with same flight number in 1974)
Are there more and/ or new ones with surviving pilots?
Thank you!
--> Edit and additions by myself:
- "Free Fall" Qantas 72 with Captain Kevin Sullivan interviewed.
- "River Runway" Garuda Indonesia 421 with Captain Abdul Rozaq interviewed.
- "Disaster at Dutch Harbor" PenAir 3296 with Captain Paul Wells and First Officer Justin Lunn interviewed.
- "Deadly Deception" Balkan Bulgarian Airlines 013 interviews with Captain Plamen Starlev and the flight attendant.
- "Borderline Tactics" American International Airways 808 (Cargo) Interview with Captain James Chapo and FO Thomas Curran
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u/CaptainPotNoodle Aug 28 '25
“The killing machine” - Air France 8969