Air Disasters Season 20 Episode 3 will continue to amaze us with another air disaster story which contains bombings, fires, maintenance mishaps, hijackings, crashes, heroic landings, and other disasters related to airplanes.
‘Air Disasters’ gets known as Mayday: Air Disaster, Air Crash Investigation(s) (outside Canada and the US), and Mayday.
In the third episode, like the previous two episodes, the investigating bodies will reveal the causes of aviation tragedies through interviews, cockpit voice recordings, eyewitnesses, experts, pilots, footage, official reports, evidence, and survivors.
The series follows the tradition of sharing three air crash stories dedicating fifteen minutes for each. The show makers also released related to rail, marine, and multiple air crash cases with similar underlying causes.
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Air Disasters Season 20 Episode 2 Recap
Air Disasters Season 20 Episode 2, titled ‘Rookie Errors,’ aired on 06 August 2023 (Sunday). The forty-five minutes long episode showed how even the simplest mistake can lead to a big air crash. Not only amateurs but professional pilots also commit small mistakes and deadly rookie errors though they undergo years of training.
According to the stories in the second episode, New York City saw another American Airlines flight crash right after 9/11. Another showed how a mistake in the takeoff in Buenos Aires turned into a disaster, and the third story focused on an airplane stall above Buffalo in New York.
Sometimes, air crash investigators face immense pressure to solve the mystery related to well-known plane crashes like the three mentioned in Air Disasters Season 20 Episode 1, aired on 30 July 2023 (Sunday). The episode got titled ‘Headline News.’
Air Disasters Season 20 Episode 3 Preview
The Air Disasters Season 20 episodes are going according to The Accident Files Season 2, released in 2019 (up to the third episode). Thus Air Disasters Season 20 Episode 3 will get titled ‘Collision Course.’
The upcoming episode will show how Hughes Airwest Flight 706 collided over the San Gabriel Mountains in Los Angeles, US. The pilots deviated from their path to avoid harsh weather conditions and had to climb 4,700 m from 300 m over the mountains. All victims got considered dead in the crash.
According to the second story, PSA Flight 182, scheduled from Sacramento International Airport to Los Angeles and San Diego, collided with Cessna 172 Skyhawk, a high-wing aircraft, over San Diego. It was California’s deadliest air crash until its title was snatched by the American Airlines Flight 191 crash that took place in 1979.
According to the third story, the deadliest aviation accident occurred in India when Kazakhstan Airlines Flight 1907 and Saudia Flight 763 collided in the air over Charkhi Dadri, Haryana, India. The Kazakh crew could not fly at high altitudes, and there was confusion in the conversation between them and the radio operator.
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Air Disasters Season 20 Episode 3 Release Date
Air Disasters Season 20 Episode 3 will air on Smithsonian Channel on 13 August 2023 (Sunday) at 10:00 PM in the United States.
Air Disasters Season 20 Episode 3 Release Timings
- EDT (Eastern Daylight Time): 22:00 hrs on 13 August 2023 (Sunday)
- BST (British Summer Time): 03:00 hrs on 14 August 2023 (Monday)
- CDT (Central Daylight Time): 21:00 hrs on 13 August 2023 (Sunday)
- PDT (Pacific Daylight Time): 19:00 hrs on 13 August 2023 (Sunday)
- KST (Korea Standard Time): 11:00 hrs on 14 August 2023 (Monday)
- IST (India Standard Time): 07:30 hrs on 14 August 2023 (Monday)
Air Disasters Season 20 Episode 3 Streaming Guide
Smithsonian Channel
Air Disaster Season 20 Episode 3 will air on Smithsonian Channel. However, you can unlock the channel’s content using your TV providers, such as Philo, Xfinity, DIRECTV, Spectrum, Optimum, Hulu, Verizon, and more mentioned by the Smithsonian Channel’s website.
Viewers with no TV provider can select the 24-hour pass by entering the correct details and agreeing to the terms and services on the official website of the Smithsonian Channel.
Amazon
The series gets titled ‘Air Crash Investigation Season 20’ instead of ‘Air Disasters Season 20’ on Amazon. Only the third HD episode (or any other single HD episode) will get available for $2.99, while the whole season in HD costs $24.99. The platform also provides a TV season pass to watch the episodes as they air.
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