Sunday evening is going to be must-watch television. Anyone who's ever flown will want to watch the special Australian documentary on Carte Blanche tomorrow at 19:00 on M-Net when the weekly investigative magazine show will broadcast a shocking investigation from Four Corners about the Qantas Flight 32 bound for Sydney that ran into serious trouble last November.
Meanwhile History (DStv 254) has an Aviation Week coming up starting Monday, 18 July with airline disasters and airport documentaries on every weekday at 21:25. More about that further below.
Carte Blanche Sunday at 19:00 on M-Net will air the arresting documentary that first aired on Australia's ABC network's Four Corners, that country's longest running weekly investigative magazine show. ''QF32'' will examine the mid-air explosion on Qantas Flight 32 from Singapore on a new Airbus A380 - an event that sent shockwaves through the aviation world.
The terrifying incident during which an engine exploded sending pieces of searing hot metal shooting out of the engie faster than the speed of sound put airline safety records under scrutiny and is raising questions about the safety of the Airbus A380 and the Rolls-Royce engines famous for their reliability, which many airlines had chosen. The doccie tells the compelling story of the frightening event from the passengers who looked on in horror as a hole appeared in one wing to the cabin crew, the pilots and the horrified Qantas ground staff, firefighters and air traffic controllers.
History (DStv 254) has an ''Aviation Week'' starting on Monday 18 July at 21:25. Monday (18 July) will have an episode of Most Extreme Airports looking at the world's most problematic airports and the difficult engineering behind them. Tuesday (19 July) looks at The Crash of Flight 91. Wednesday (20 July) has Modern Marvels: Plane Crashes and Thursday (21 July) is Conspiracy? TWA 800. Friday 22 July has History's Greatest Blunders looking at the Tenerife Air Disaster, the Tech Effect and Pan Am Flight 103.
