Survival in the Sky (1996)

Original title

Black Box

Genre

documentary film, drama film, docudrama, documentary television film

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Length

1 season, 6 episodes

Rated

NR

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary series examines commercial aviation accidents and the investigations that follow. It features interviews with investigators and survivors.

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What happens

Survival in the Sky, known as Black Box in the United Kingdom, is a British documentary series of six one-hour episodes produced by Darlow Smithson Productions for The Learning Channel and Channel 4. The series was narrated by Will Lyman in the United States and Sean Barrett in the United Kingdom. The series primarily concentrated on commercial aviation accidents and the investigations related to them. They were first aired as a series of only four episodes in late 1996, with two additional episodes produced and aired in 1998. The series was produced with the cooperation of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB), and interviews many of the investigators and survivors of air crashes. A book also titled Black Box (ISBN 0760304009) was published in 1996 as a companion to the series. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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