flyingturtle wrote:Returning back to this thread... until now I've watched 40 episodes, and I've annoted each of them with a short comment (what I liked about the storytelling, the investigation, what I learned about aviation...). Some episodes are pretty lame (like S11E02, "The plane the flew too high"), where the female investigator from that South American country is just standing or walking around. Or "Dead Weight" (S05E05), where about 40% of the episode were spent explaining airworthiness directives.
My favourite episodes, until now:
- Lockerbie Disaster, S07E02
- Fatal Delivery (UPS 6), S15E04
- Behind Closed Doors (DC-10 cargo door issues), S05E03
Sometimes, accidents were pretty minor and utterly forgettable, but the storytelling by the "Mayday" writers is astounding - for example Partnair Flight 394 ("Blown Apart", S07E03). In other cases, I know the accident pretty well (either from Wikipedia, books, or a.nut discussions), but "Mayday" manages to make me have a second look at the disaster, without causing any boredom.
David
How on earth would that be a forgettable air accident?
Here is a few reasons this was everything but a forgettable accident:
-Largest accident in that country.
-conspiracy theories abound because of the big money/shipping connections on the part of the passengers, and their involvement in shipping during the iran/iraq war.
-conspiracy theories about a cover-up because the aircraft had a "close call" with a F 16 shortly before the accident.
-conspiracy theories connected to the fact that the aircraft had been formerly chartered by the prime minister.
-conspiracy theories connected to speculation about an international problem with coonterfeit parts, which turned out to be true, and made big changes in aviation.
-The owner being in acute money-problems, making the pilots pay for fuel before take-off. Possibly connected to the prior.
-the peculiar case of an air crash 2 months prior caused by mechanical failure, never being fully explained because the mechanic signing off on the broken part, was the same mechanic that were on the Partnair flight responsible for the running APU, and thus perished and not being able to witness in the previous case.
Surely not forgettable!
