A team of experts deliberately crash a 170-seat Boeing 727 passenger jet.
The Plane Crash
The Plane Crash
The event documentary of 2012, and a true global ratings smash, peaking in the UK at 4.5 million, The Plane Crash combines spectacle with purpose in a “must-watch” feature-length package. Dragonfly, Channel 4 and Discovery succeeded where NASA had failed 30 years earlier: crash-testing a full-size passenger plane in the interests of passenger safety. The resulting discoveries revealed exactly what happens to an aeroplane, and its passengers, during a devastating crash, and will help engineers and designers with their ongoing quest to improve air safety for years to come.
One of the emergency exit doors from “Big Flo”, the doomed Boeing 727, remains on display to visitors to Dragonfly’s London HQ.
The Plane Crash was nominated for a Specialist Factual BAFTA an RTS Award as well as two nominations at the Broadcast Awards 2014 for Best Documentary and Best Original Programme.
“It’s extraordinary television – mesmerising and terrifying. Strangely exciting too…” – Daily Telegraph
- Awards:
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Televisual Bulldog Awards
Best Single Documentary - Winner
Winner, 2013
RTS Programme Awards
Best Science & Natural History Programme - Nominee
Nominee, 2013
Broadcast
Best Original Programme - Nominee
Nominee, 2013
Broadcast
Best Documentary Programme - Nominee
Nominee, 2013
BAFTA
Best Specialist Factual Programme - Nominee
Nominee, 2013