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AIR CRASH INVESTIGATION
Sunday 21 March at 9:00PM
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A DC-9 plane barely manages to get off the ground at takeoff causing it to collide with a pole and disintegrat...
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Find out why Northwest Airlines flight 255 crashed at takeoff.
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Tune into the brand new series of Air Crash Investigation Mondays at 9pm from 1st March.

It should have been the start of a sunshine holiday, but on 22nd August 1985 disaster strikes as a British Airtours plane takes off from Manchester airport, heading for the Greek island of Corfu.
 
As the aircraft is accelerating, a loud 'thud' comes from the fuselage and the pilots abandon takeoff. They believe a tyre has blown but passengers on the left side of the plane see the real problem - one of the engines is on fire.  Soon, thick black smoke fills the cabin; panicked passengers struggle to escape, and just minutes later, the aircraft is completely ravaged by fire. More than 70 passengers...
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