The only reason journalists keep publishing stories like this is because they want to scam money out of ignorant people who don’t know any better. The 737MAX crashes were a tragedy, and yes Boeing’s design decisions directly contributed to them, but ultimately the design was amended and the aircraft is safe to fly. It’s pure misinformation to claim the aircraft is unsafe because of “new evidence” from something that has already concluded. I personally will be recommending my family and friends don’t watch this hatchet-piece, because it is obvious that it’s just journalists wanting to make money off lying about our industry.

Netflix has recently released a documentary called "Apollo 13: Survival".

Nothing new but it may interest those who follow aviation/space disasters.

New US TV series "Airline Wars"

Another clip show of "PAX behaving Badly"

Next Mondays ABC 4Corners (30/09) will be on REX.

Tonight on SBS (and ondemand) Concorde - Chasing the Dream

Good FR24 production touring the A220 assembly line
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_e1rC8jx24

World’s Most Dangerous Airports

Sunday, 8 December at 8.30pm on SBS VICELAND.

I imagine Lukla, Paro and Saba are probably on that list

After The Sky Fell On Lockerbie

SBS 19:30 - 21:30 15/12/2024

ACI/Mayday Season 25 is expected to starting airing in 01/2025. Reportedly an episode will cover the Coulson C-130 firebomber crash.

Mega Mechanics is now available on 7+

Episode S1 E6 - Shiny And New (shown tonight) includes an A330 engine change in the QF Brisbane Maintenance Hangar.

Several eps include work within the QF Brisbane Maintenance Hangar.

https://7plus.com.au/mega-mechanics

Starting on UK TV tonight is:

Lockerbie: A Search for Truth

Colin Firth is outstanding as the grieving crusader seeking justice for the victims of 1988's Pan Am Flight 103 bombing in a new 5 part drama.

It’s been 36 years since Pan Am Flight 103 fell from the sky over the town of Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 passengers and crew, as well as 11 locals on the ground.
Yet in 2025 a new suspect is set to face trial in May. That gives you some idea of the complex path for justice which has plagued families of those who perished when a bomb exploded mid-air -years before the 9/11 disaster.

One man campaigning for justice has been British GP Dr. Jim Swire, whose daughter Flora was on her way to the US to spend Christmas with her American boyfriend. She died aged just 23 years old on 21st December 1988.

As the disaster did for so many, it shattered the Swire family but in the new 5 part UK / US series, Lockerbie: A Search for Truth, we see the quest for justic through Jim’s eyes.
Colin Firth portrays the father and doctor driven by anguish and a lack of information, badgering government for answers and to discover who was responsible for his daughter’s death.

Lockerbie, with only a few thousand residents 120km south of Glasgow, was catapulted into the international spotlight that fateful night. It is tragically, and alarmingly, recreated here as a Boeing 747 comes raining down upon the town, as if resembling missiles. So large was the fuselage, it crushed three homes and created a crater in the middle of the town. The instant search and rescue -a cluster of dazed and confused farmers and villagers- is confronted by bodies in trees, strapped to airseats and even dead children.

“There’s more all over. Stopped counting after 50,” says one local.
After Jim Swire learns of his daughter’s death, but is frustrated by a lack of government accountability, he teams with a journalist, Murray Guthrie (Sam Troughton) to begin posing unanswered questions. Why did the US embassy dismiss an early phone call as a hoax yet warn their own staff not to take Flight 103? What information was being kept from families?

Central to his campaign is the desire for an independent inquiry, but it is rejected by the Thatcher govt, briefly represented by the Minister of State for Transport at the time, a younger Michael Portillo.

The unassuming Swire tests the patience of authorities, leading a victims group, challenging airport security and, at one poin, meeting Libya’s Colonel Gaddafi (Nabil Al Raee) to try and have Libyan suspects stand trial. But period politics surrounds the constant pursuit for justice and Swire’s path will face both victory and loss across the decades. It drags on so long, even Wikileaks enters the myriad of leads.

Swire’s obsession threatens the marriage with wife Jane (Catherine McCormack) who is grieving for her daughter, whilst trying to remain supportive of her husband’s stubborn campaign.

“I will never stop, not until we know the answer to everything,” Jim insists.


Hopefully a local network will air this in the future

New doco on MH17 will air on NGTV UK next weekend.

Murder in the Skies: Who Downed MH17 (3parts)

Hopefully it will make it down here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggnF_G9ArCo

CNN (US) has just aired new 4 part documentary series:

Lockerbie - The Bombing of PAN AM 103.

Similar to Lockerbie: A Search for Truth (above)

On today's ABC Landline (20/04/25) was a special on the 2025 Qld. Floods.

A segment looked at the Aviation support component.

Worth a look (on ABC iview) if you are interested.

Landline
 

Saw that segment. Qiute a variety of choppers used from R-22 to Chinooks.

New on Netflix

A Tragedy Foretold - Flight 3054

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAM_Airlines_Flight_3054

Australian Aviation History (Newsreels)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWgz...lhdGlvbg%3D%3D