Synopsis:
This series looks at the world's air traffic control system, responsible for handling some 5 million passengers every day. Through a detailed examination of disastrous air collisions, the series asks whether the lessons of the past have been learnt and how, with a system already running at full capacity, the industry will cope with the expected doubling of air traffic by 2020.
No Room for Error: Looking at the problems faced by Los Angeles International Airport in the midst of some of the world's busiest air space.
Danger on the ground: This film revisits the world's worst ever air accident in Tenerife, 1977 and asks how it was possible for history to repeat itself 24 years later in Milan.
The Blame Game: An examination of a 2002 collision above Switzerland, causing 71 deaths.
Synopsis:
This series looks at the world's air traffic control system, responsible for handling some 5 million passengers every day. Through a detailed examination of disastrous air collisions, the series asks whether the lessons of the past have been learnt and how, with a system already running at full capacity, the industry will cope with the expected doubling of air traffic by 2020.
No Room for Error: Looking at the problems faced by Los Angeles International Airport in the midst of some of the world's busiest air space.
Danger on the ground: This film revisits the world's worst ever air accident in Tenerife, 1977 and asks how it was possible for history to repeat itself 24 years later in Milan.
The Blame Game: An examination of a 2002 collision above Switzerland, causing 71 deaths.