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Mayday

Season 25 · Episode 10

Fatal Test Flight (Airborne Express Flight 827)

8.042mApril 7, 2025

When a cargo plane test flight ends in disaster, investigators uncover a series of failures that doomed the DC-8 before it got off the ground.

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Episode 1Pacific Ditching (Transair Flight 810)
Episode 2Running on Empty (Air Tahoma Flight 185)
Episode 3Power Struggle
Episode 4Second Thoughts (Luxair Flight 9642)
Episode 5Powerless Plunge (Loganair Flight 670A)
Episode 6Cabin Chaos
Episode 7Deadly Climb (Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105)
Episode 8Firebomber Down
Episode 9Collision Catastrophe (2002 Überlingen mid-air collision)
Episode 10Fatal Test Flight (Airborne Express Flight 827)
Episode 11No Exit (US Air 1493)