Crash of Flight 447 (2010)

On June 1st 2009 Flight AF447 an Air France Airbus A330 flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean with the los of all 228 lives How could a stateoftheart airliner with elaborate electronic safety and navigation features and a faultless safety record simply vanish without a terrace NOVA assembles a team of seasoned pilots engineers and safety experts to examine the evidence that emerged in the weeks following this horrific disaster What led Flight 447s crew to fly straight into a towering thunderstorm Using expert testimony messages transmitted by the doomed planes computer system and multilayered CGI weather reconstructions NOVA pieces together the events leading up to the disaster and provides a forensic view of crucial events seen from all angles to reveal what really happened on Flight 447