Pity. Great show to watch, but NGC would rather show the dog whisperer or some other crap about women turning into dudes. I guess I will just have to keep bootlegging the episodes like everyone else in America. Stick to magazines NGC USA.
shareI'm in Minnesota and this show, now renamed "Air Emergency" airs almost every Tuesday.
I'd rather laugh with the Sinners than cry with the Saints. The Sinners are much more fun!!
You can find 4 seasons of it on Amazon Instant Video under the title "Air Disasters". And the first season is on Netflix. It's the same exact show, only the narration has been Americanized (kilometers to miles, etc) and it's shown in a different order than the original.
shareI bought a 12 season box set released in Australia, and it was truly worth the obscene price LOL!
In heaven everything is fine.
They can't show it, ofc. Many people would realize that they're completely insane for getting on a plane (any plane).
Thousand of components can fail, at any time (and cause a catastrophic failure), on any flight; getting in the air is gambling with your life, every single time, meh.
Edit: My uncles, dad's brothers: one of them spent his life as a calibration engineer, flight crew and he's now suffering (permanent) PTSD and my other, late, uncle as an air-traffic controller (cancer, quite possibly from exposure: as many of his colleagues have passed in the same way, unfortunately); so, I speak from -relative- experience, btw.
(Oh and as you can guess, I've not flown in 10+ years; as soon as I had gotten old enough to realize the risks - and, honestly, I do not plan on getting on one, ever again, unless there's some sort of unavoidable emergency..:))
shareConsidering that statistically, there're 0.6 accidents (and not necessarily fatal accidents, mind you) per one million flights, such extreme paranoia seems quite baseless. I understand that aviophobia is quite irrational and the awareness of just how incredibly safe flying is this day and age, won't necessarily make the uneasiness go away. However, you are trying to argue from the intellect here, which is something that can easily be refuted. Yes, a thousand things can go wrong - but miraculously, they very rarely do (it should also be noted that more often than not, several things have to go terribly wrong simultaneously in order for a disaster to happen, which makes it even more unlikely). Or not so miraculously as aircraft manufacturers and folks conducting the pilot training have luckily been smart enough to learn from previous mistakes (catastrophic mechanical/electronic failures have become particularly rare as most recent high profile crashes have all occurred due to human element - shootdowns, deliberate murder/suicides etc). It is almost unbelievable that, for instance, from 2001 through to 2013, not one single fatal accident involving a large airliner, occurred on the US soil. So, no offence, but with this kind of attitude, I wonder how you muster up the courage to go out on the street as you can get hit by a car, a stone or an icicle may fall off a building and kill you, you might wind up a victim of a terrorist attack... indeed a thousand things can go wrong. And it is statistically more likely to drown in ones' bathtub than die in an air crash.
Besides, I'm a bit of an aviophobe, myself - as a result of studying the history of plane crashes with great thoroughness.
"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan
I hear what your saying franzkabuki. Its the only way to see the world, yet I myself am not a good flyer. All these people are saying, "your chances are better getting hit by a car than being in an airplane crash, etc.". I just have to say tho, if that's the case why are there so many of these types of shows out there????? I'm just sayin.....
share"All these people are saying, "your chances are better getting hit by a car than being in an airplane crash"".
They're saying it because it's statistically true.
"If that's the case why are there so many of these types of shows out there?"
How many is that? Either way, I don't see what logic you're after here - for one thing, plane crashes such as the ones tackled in Air Emergency get more publicity for the simple reason that there're always considerably more people involved than in any given car accident. For another, there's still sort of an air of mystique to aviation that's absent from ground-based traffic - trouble seems more dramatic when it's happening inside some metal tube hurtling through the skies.
"facts are stupid things" Ronald Reagan
Let me guess: you won't fly, but you probably ride in a motor vehicle on a regular basis.
Even though you're literally THOUSANDS of times more likely to die in a car than a plane.
Air travel is much safer. Must suck to never be able to travel to most of the world because of such retarded logic.
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What are you talking about "They can't show it"? If you don't know, please don't answer as if you do.
It's on Smithsonian Channel, titled "Air Disasters"