On June 18, 1972, British European Airways Flight 548 tragically crashes in a field near Staines-upon-Thames shortly after departing from London Heathrow Airport, resulting in the loss of all 118 passengers and crew. The disaster was caused by the pilot retracting the aircraft's droops at an insufficient airspeed and not heeding the stall warnings, leading to the catastrophic stall and subsequent crash.
Show
Mayday
Episode
S13E01
Air Date
Dec 16, 2013
Season 13 Episodes
S13E01
Fight to the Death (British European Airways Flight 548)
S13E02
Disaster on the Potomac (Air Florida Flight 90)
S13E03
Speed Trap (Hughes Airwest Flight 706)
S13E04
Queens Catastrophe (American Airlines Flight 587)
S13E05
Lost in Translation (Crossair Flight 498)
S13E06
Massacre Over the Mediterranean (Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870)
S13E07
Terror in Paradise (Air Moorea Flight 1121)
S13E08
Imperfect Pitch (XL Airways Germany Flight 888T)
S13E09
Into the Eye of the Storm (Hurricane Hunters NOAA42)
S13E10
Titanic in the Sky (Qantas Flight 32)