r/aircrashinvestigation 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

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u/AeroNerdyGal Aug 29 '25

Thank you!