TV Show ‘Air Crash Investigation’ Takes Center Stage After Flydubai Passenger Credits It During Emergency

Mayday: All about Canadian TV show that helped Flydubai passenger save 174 lives

From television screens to a 14,000-foot nosedive, a Flydubai emergency turned docuseries Mayday aka Air Crash Investigation into an unlikely survival guide. Here is all you need to know about the show whose crash reconstructions informed an Israeli passenger during Captain Smit Machchhar's mid-air crisis.

Minute by minute, how the Flydubai mid-air attack and near-disaster unfolded

Eyewitnesses recall a plunge towards the desert, screams from the cockpit, and a lifesaving counterattack

FlyDubai Hero Passenger Credits Canadian Docuseries For Helping Avert Mid-Air Disaster

A hero passenger aboard the FlyDubai flight who claims to have stopped alleged attacker has credited a docuseries for how to avert a mid-air disaster.

TV Show ‘Air Crash Investigation’ Takes Center Stage After Flydubai Passenger Credits It During Emergency

TEL AVIV (VINnews) — A television show about some of the world’s most terrifying aviation disasters is suddenly drawing attention after an Israeli passenger said watching the program helped him know what to do when a Flydubai plane plunged during a cockpit attack. The Canadian documentary series “Air Crash Investigation,” also known internationally as “Mayday,” […]

‘I watch Air Crash Investigation’: Flydubai hero says TV show helped him take the con

Yaniv Hayun told Netanyahu he pulled back on the aircraft’s controls after helping overpower the suspected attacker; the long-running documentary series reconstructs air disasters using cockpit recordings, testimony and accident reports