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  1. Pan Am Flight 103: How a Tiny Fragment Traced the Lockerbie Bomb

    Event: 1988Published: 24 Oct 2026

    A bomb hidden in a cassette player destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie in December 1988, killing 259 people on board and 11 on the ground.

    View event: Pan Am Flight 103 (1988)
    Aircraft
    Boeing 747
    Location
    Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
    Phase of flight
    Cruise

  2. Germanwings Flight 9525: Mayday on the Cockpit Recorder Evidence

    Event: 2015Published: 21 Jun 2023

    This Mayday episode follows the BEA's investigation into Germanwings Flight 9525, the Airbus A320 that crashed in the French Alps on 24 March 2015.

    View event: Germanwings Flight 9525 (2015)
    Aircraft
    Airbus A320
    Location
    Prads-Haute-Bléone, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France
    Phase of flight
    Cruise

  3. Pan Am Flight 103: How Investigators Proved a Bomb Over Lockerbie

    Event: 1988Published: 26 Oct 2021

    This Mayday episode follows British air accident investigators and the FBI after Pan Am Flight 103 broke apart over Lockerbie in December 1988, killing 270 people.

    View event: Pan Am Flight 103 (1988)
    Aircraft
    Boeing 747
    Location
    Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
    Phase of flight
    Cruise

  4. Germanwings Flight 9525: The Locked Cockpit and the BEA Findings

    Event: 2015Published: 11 May 2020

    This short Fascinating Horror documentary explains Germanwings Flight 9525, which crashed in the French Alps on 24 March 2015 after the co-pilot locked the captain out of the cockpit and put the…

    View event: Germanwings Flight 9525 (2015)
    Location
    Prads-Haute-Bléone, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France
    Phase of flight
    Cruise