World's Wildest Flights

TV Show · Documentary

This gripping series presents some of the most dramatic, terrifying, and occasionally hilarious stories of the passengers and crew who have survived the world's wildest flights. Survivors share their experiences of everything from emergency landings, intense weather, mid-air collisions and even engine failures: all moments many thought would be their last, which many of them captured on video as it happened. The airport teams also share their stories of how they guide flights to safety under stressful conditions, saving lives both in the air and on the ground.

2018 · 44m

Director Gareth Williams

EPISODE 1

Episode 01

A captain performs a heroic landing with no wheels, two skydiving planes crash at 12,000 feet, and a pilot asks the passengers on board to pray for their lives, all caught on camera.

44 min
EPISODE 2

Episode 2

A family nearly lost everything on a trip to Vegas when the landing gear failed on their flight from Gatwick, engine failure causes the cabin of a flight to fill with smoke, and a birthday treat in a private plane ends with an emergency landing.

44 min
EPISODE 3

Episode 03

A British couple describe how their Las Vegas flight turned into an airside inferno. A deaf traveller relates their terrifying experience when a New York plane crashed, and there's the story of a close shave with death on a Reno runway.

43 min
EPISODE 4

Episode 04

Passengers contend with an emergency sea landing, a highway descent, and an American Airlines flight that ended in a runway inferno. Also, a delayed Porto bound flight that turned into a bizarre lockdown.

44 min
EPISODE 5

Episode 05

The accounts of panic on a burning plane in Peru, a solo ultralight flight that goes horribly wrong, what happens when a plane attempts to land in an extreme storm, and a great escape in aviation history with the miracle on the Hudson.

44 min
EPISODE 6

Episode 06

Engine failure forces a pilot to down his plane in shark-infested waters off Hawaii. A 77-year-old passenger lands a plane after the pilot becomes unconscious.

44 min

Gareth Williams

Director
Gareth Williams

Producer
Helen Tonge

Producer
Paul Heaney

Producer

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