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'''''Air Crash Investigation''''', also known as '''''Mayday'''' in Canada and '''''Air Emergency''''' and '''''Air Disasters''''' in the United States, is a Canadian [[documentary film|documentary]] [[television programme]] produced by '''[[Cineflix]]''' investigating [[air crashes]], near-crashes and other [[disaster]]s. ''Air Crash Investigation'' uses [[historical reenactment|re-enactment]]s, interviews and [[computer-generated imagery]] to reconstruct for its audiences the sequence of events leading up to each disaster. In addition aviation experts, retired pilots and crash investigators are [[interviewed]] explaining how these [[emergencies]] came about, how they were investigated and how they could have been prevented. |
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Cineflix started production on {{nowrap|{{start date|2002|08|13|df=yes}}}}, with a [[CDN$]]2.5 million budget. Cineflix secured deals with [[France 5]], the [[Discovery Channel (Canada)|Discovery Channel]], [[Canal D]], [[TVNZ]], the [[Seven Network]], the [[RTL Nederland|Holland Media Group]] and the [[National Geographic Channel]], to take |
Cineflix started production on {{nowrap|{{start date|2002|08|13|df=yes}}}}, with a [[CDN$]]2.5 million budget. Cineflix secured deals with [[France 5]], the [[Discovery Channel (Canada)|Discovery Channel]], [[Canal D]], [[TVNZ]], the [[Seven Network]], the [[RTL Nederland|Holland Media Group]] and the [[National Geographic Channel]], to take Air Crash Investigation to 144 countries and 26 languages. The series was received well by critics and nominated for a number of awards. Sharon Zupancic won a [[Gemini Award]] for her work on the ''Air Crash Investigation'' episode, "''[[Pan Am Flight 103|Lockerbie Disaster]]''" [[UNSW]]'s senior lecturer, Raymond Lewis, conducted a study on teaching strategy loosely based on the series. Lewis' results indicated using the strategy had "''a positive effect on learning outcomes.''" |
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==Hallmarks== |
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==Production and distribution== |
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Cineflix started production for '' |
Cineflix started production for ''Air Crash Investigation'' on {{nowrap|{{start date|2002|08|13|df=yes}}}}, with a CDN$2.5 million budget, after Channel Five commissioned the six-part one-hour series.<ref name='Production starts'>{{cite press release |title = New Cineflix science series Air Crash Investigation starts production |publisher = Cineflix |date = 13 August 2002 |url = http://www.cineflixinternational.com/home/article/61}}</ref> To keep the costs down most of the production was kept at Cineflix's Toronto offices in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.<ref name='Donna Luke interview'>{{cite interview |subject = Luke, Donna |interviewer = Susan Zeller for Realscreen |title = No Borders |url = http://www.realscreen.com/articles/magazine/20030101/summit03.html |date = 1 January 2003}}</ref> While in production the series was sold to France 5, Discovery Channel and Canal D.<ref name='international deal 1'>{{cite press release |title = Cineflix goes global with popular science series Air Crash Investigation. Germany's Prosieben latest channel to acquire the show |publisher = Cineflix |date = 2 June 2003 |url = http://www.cineflixproductions.com/news/show/35-Cineflix-goes-global-with-popular-science-series-Mayday-Germany-s-Prosieben-latest-channel-to-acquire-the-show}}</ref> On {{nowrap|{{start date|2003|06|02|df=yes}}}}, Cineflix announced that they sold the series to TVNZ, the Seven Network and the Holland Media Group,<ref name='international deal 1'/> later on {{nowrap|{{start date|2003|10|22|df=yes}}}}, a month before the airing of the first season, Cineflix announced that they secured a major international deal with National Geographic Channel to take ''Air Crash Investigation'' to 144 countries and 26 languages.<ref name='international deal 2'>{{cite press release |title = Cineflix International strikes NATGEO deal for new popular science series Mayday |publisher = Cineflix |date = 22 October 2003 |url = http://www.cineflixproductions.com/news/show/26-Cineflix-International-strikes-NATGEO-deal-for-new-popular-science-series-Mayday}}</ref> |
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On 25 January 2012, Cineflix Rights announced that they would be selling Seasons 8, 9 and 11 (23 episodes) to [[Smithsonian Networks]].<ref>[http://www.cineflixproductions.com/news/show/174-Cineflix-Rights-seals-North-and-Latin-American-deals Cineflix Rights seals North and Latin American deals]</ref> |
On 25 January 2012, Cineflix Rights announced that they would be selling Seasons 8, 9 and 11 (23 episodes) to [[Smithsonian Networks]].<ref>[http://www.cineflixproductions.com/news/show/174-Cineflix-Rights-seals-North-and-Latin-American-deals Cineflix Rights seals North and Latin American deals]</ref> |
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==Episodes== |
==Episodes== |
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{{As of|2012|04|13}}, a total of 85 episodes of '' |
{{As of|2012|04|13}}, a total of 85 episodes of ''Air Crash Investigation'' have aired including five "''Science of Disaster''" specials and three "''Crash Scene Investigation''" spin-offs. A total of thirteen episodes are now currently in production for Season 12. |
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==Reception== |
==Reception== |
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The series has been received well by critics.<ref name='Paul Mavis review'>{{cite web |url = http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/36956/mayday-air-disasters/ |title = Mayday - Air Disasters |first = Paul |last = Mavis |date = 15 April 2009 |publisher = [[DVD Talk]]}}</ref><ref name='Franck Tabouring review'>{{cite web |url = http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/maydayairdisasters.php |title = Mayday - Air Disasters |first = Tabouring |last = Mavis |date = 23 April 2009 |publisher = [[DVD Verdict]]}}</ref> Paul Mavis from [[DVDTalk]] recommends '' |
The series has been received well by critics.<ref name='Paul Mavis review'>{{cite web |url = http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/36956/mayday-air-disasters/ |title = Mayday - Air Disasters |first = Paul |last = Mavis |date = 15 April 2009 |publisher = [[DVD Talk]]}}</ref><ref name='Franck Tabouring review'>{{cite web |url = http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/maydayairdisasters.php |title = Mayday - Air Disasters |first = Tabouring |last = Mavis |date = 23 April 2009 |publisher = [[DVD Verdict]]}}</ref> Paul Mavis from [[DVDTalk]] recommends ''Air Crash Investigation'' as "''Harrowing and surprisingly emotional''" and continues with "''Never exploitive, [Air Crash Investigation] not only ratchets up the suspense with its well-done action scenes, it validates them by showing us the human side of these horrific air disasters.''"<ref name='Paul Mavis review'/> Franck Tabouring from [[DVD Verdict]] said "''It's a well-produced show with plenty of compelling information about tragic accidents, telling how some people survived and others didn't.''"<ref name='Franck Tabouring review'/> |
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Sharon Zupancic won the 25th Gemini Awards for "''Best Picture Editing in a Documentary Program or Series''" for her work on the ' |
Sharon Zupancic won the 25th Gemini Awards for "''Best Picture Editing in a Documentary Program or Series''" for her work on the 'Air Crash Investigation'' episode, "''Lockerbie Disaster''".<ref name='25th Gemini Award'>{{Citation |title = Best Picture Editing in a Documentary Program or Series |url = http://www.geminiawards.ca/gemini25/catpop.cfm?catid=5004 |year = 2010 |publisher = [[Gemini Award]]}}</ref> Season five of ''Air Crash Investigation'' was nominated in the 24th Gemini Awards for "''Best General/Human Interest Series''".<ref>{{Citation |title = 24th: Full list of nominations and winners |url = http://www.geminiawards.ca/gemini24/press/GEM24FullListNominationsandWinners.pdf |year = 2009 |publisher = [[Gemini Award]] |page = 6}}</ref> A number of ''Air Crash Investigation'' episodes was nominated in the Canadian Society of Cinematographers Awards, including: "''Air India: Explosive Evidence''" and "''Fatal Distraction''" in 2009; "''Missed Approach''" and "''Miracle Flight''" in 2008; and "''Flying Blind''" in 2004.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.csc.ca/awards/ |title = Awards |publisher = Canadian Society of Cinematographers |accessdate = 15 October 2010}}</ref> |
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University of [[New South Wales]]'s senior lecturer, Raymond Lewis, conducted a study on teaching strategy loosely based on the series. The study was done with prospective pilots studying the ''Aircraft Systems for Aviators'' undergraduate course. The results of the study shows "''the use of air accidents and incident scenarios had a positive effect on learning outcomes.''"<ref name='teaching study'>{{cite journal |last=Lewis |first=Raymond |date=December 2009 |title=Air Crash Investigators - comments on a pedagogical strategy to increase intrinsic motivation in order to enhance student learning. |url=http://aaee.com.au/conferences/AAEE2009/PDF/AUTHOR/AE090098.PDF }}</ref> |
University of [[New South Wales]]'s senior lecturer, Raymond Lewis, conducted a study on teaching strategy loosely based on the series. The study was done with prospective pilots studying the ''Aircraft Systems for Aviators'' undergraduate course. The results of the study shows "''the use of air accidents and incident scenarios had a positive effect on learning outcomes.''"<ref name='teaching study'>{{cite journal |last=Lewis |first=Raymond |date=December 2009 |title=Air Crash Investigators - comments on a pedagogical strategy to increase intrinsic motivation in order to enhance student learning. |url=http://aaee.com.au/conferences/AAEE2009/PDF/AUTHOR/AE090098.PDF }}</ref> |
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Genre | Documentary Docudrama |
Created by | André Barro |
Narrated by | Stephen Bogaert for Canada Bill Ratner for the USA Jonathan Aris for Australia, Asia and the UK |
Country of origin | Canada |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 12 (In production) |
No. of episodes | 98 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Running time | 40–55 minutes |
Production company | Cineflix Productions |
Original release | |
Network | Discovery Channel Canada National Geographic Channel |
Release | September 3, 2003 present | –
Air Crash Investigation, also known as Mayday' in Canada and Air Emergency and Air Disasters in the United States, is a Canadian documentary television programme produced by Cineflix investigating air crashes, near-crashes and other disasters. Air Crash Investigation uses re-enactments, interviews and computer-generated imagery to reconstruct for its audiences the sequence of events leading up to each disaster. In addition aviation experts, retired pilots and crash investigators are interviewed explaining how these emergencies came about, how they were investigated and how they could have been prevented.
Cineflix started production on 13 August 2002, with a CDN$2.5 million budget. Cineflix secured deals with France 5, the Discovery Channel, Canal D, TVNZ, the Seven Network, the Holland Media Group and the National Geographic Channel, to take Air Crash Investigation to 144 countries and 26 languages. The series was received well by critics and nominated for a number of awards. Sharon Zupancic won a Gemini Award for her work on the Air Crash Investigation episode, "Lockerbie Disaster" UNSW's senior lecturer, Raymond Lewis, conducted a study on teaching strategy loosely based on the series. Lewis' results indicated using the strategy had "a positive effect on learning outcomes."
Hallmarks
The series features re-enactments, interviews, eyewitness testimony, computer-generated imagery, and in nearly all of the episodes, cockpit voice recordings to reconstruct the sequence of events to the audiences. Several passengers and crew members (whether they survived the incident or not) are picked and actors/actresses play the role of those passengers and crews throughout the flight usually starting from boarding of the flight. The flight routines in the air traffic control, cockpit and cabin are recreated on screen starting from departure up to the moment of the emergency. At the moment of the emergency, external view of the aircraft from different angles are recreated to show the effect and what had happened to the aircraft. The responses and reactions of the passengers, crews and air traffic control leading up to the eventual crash or emergency landing are then recreated. All the scenes in cockpit and air traffic control centers are recreated using the actual script obtained from the cockpit voice recorder of the aircraft and other recordings made at the time.
Throughout the episodes the victims or relatives and friends of victims are interviewed.[1][2] In addition aviation experts, retired pilots and investigators are interviewed on the evidence and explain how these emergencies came about and how they could have been prevented.[2]
Production and distribution
Cineflix started production for Air Crash Investigation on 13 August 2002, with a CDN$2.5 million budget, after Channel Five commissioned the six-part one-hour series.[3] To keep the costs down most of the production was kept at Cineflix's Toronto offices in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[4] While in production the series was sold to France 5, Discovery Channel and Canal D.[5] On 2 June 2003, Cineflix announced that they sold the series to TVNZ, the Seven Network and the Holland Media Group,[5] later on 22 October 2003, a month before the airing of the first season, Cineflix announced that they secured a major international deal with National Geographic Channel to take Air Crash Investigation to 144 countries and 26 languages.[6]
On 25 January 2012, Cineflix Rights announced that they would be selling Seasons 8, 9 and 11 (23 episodes) to Smithsonian Networks.[7]
Episodes
As of 13 April 2012, a total of 85 episodes of Air Crash Investigation have aired including five "Science of Disaster" specials and three "Crash Scene Investigation" spin-offs. A total of thirteen episodes are now currently in production for Season 12.
Seasons[8] | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
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First aired | Last aired | |||
1 | 6 | 3 September 2003 | 22 October 2003 | |
2 | 6 | 23 January 2005 | 27 February 2005 | |
3 | 13 | 14 September 2005 | 7 December 2005 | |
4 | 10 | 15 April 2007 | 17 June 2007 | |
5 | 10 | 9 April 2008 | 11 June 2008 | |
6 | 3 | 16 December 2007 | 2 March 2008 | |
7 | 8 | 4 November 2009 | 17 December 2009 | |
8 | 2 | 10 June 2009 | 17 June 2009 | |
9 | 8 | 8 September 2010 | 27 October 2010 | |
10 | 6 | 27 February 2011 | 28 March 2011 | |
11 | 13 | 12 August 2011 | 13 April 2012 | |
12 | 13 | 3 August 2012 | 15 April 2013 | |
13 | 11 | 16 December 2013 | 9 May 2014 | |
14 | 11 | 5 January 2015 | 2 March 2015 | |
15 | 10 | 4 January 2016 | 17 February 2016 | |
16 | 10 | 7 June 2016 | 13 February 2017 | |
17 | 10 | 20 February 2017 | 3 October 2017 | |
18 | 10 | 13 February 2018 | 4 July 2018 | |
19 | 10 | 2 January 2019 | 11 March 2019 | |
20 | 10 | 9 January 2020 | 12 March 2020 | |
21 | 10 | 4 April 2021 | 6 June 2021 | |
22 | 10 | 3 January 2022 | 12 February 2022 | |
23 | 10 | 3 January 2023 | 7 March 2023 | |
24 | 10 | 11 February 2024 | 14 April 2024 |
Reception
The series has been received well by critics.[1][2] Paul Mavis from DVDTalk recommends Air Crash Investigation as "Harrowing and surprisingly emotional" and continues with "Never exploitive, [Air Crash Investigation] not only ratchets up the suspense with its well-done action scenes, it validates them by showing us the human side of these horrific air disasters."[1] Franck Tabouring from DVD Verdict said "It's a well-produced show with plenty of compelling information about tragic accidents, telling how some people survived and others didn't."[2]
Sharon Zupancic won the 25th Gemini Awards for "Best Picture Editing in a Documentary Program or Series" for her work on the 'Air Crash Investigation episode, "Lockerbie Disaster".[9] Season five of Air Crash Investigation was nominated in the 24th Gemini Awards for "Best General/Human Interest Series".[10] A number of Air Crash Investigation episodes was nominated in the Canadian Society of Cinematographers Awards, including: "Air India: Explosive Evidence" and "Fatal Distraction" in 2009; "Missed Approach" and "Miracle Flight" in 2008; and "Flying Blind" in 2004.[11]
University of New South Wales's senior lecturer, Raymond Lewis, conducted a study on teaching strategy loosely based on the series. The study was done with prospective pilots studying the Aircraft Systems for Aviators undergraduate course. The results of the study shows "the use of air accidents and incident scenarios had a positive effect on learning outcomes."[12]
See also
References
- ^ a b c Mavis, Paul (15 April 2009). "Mayday - Air Disasters". DVD Talk.
- ^ a b c d Mavis, Tabouring (23 April 2009). "Mayday - Air Disasters". DVD Verdict.
- ^ "New Cineflix science series Air Crash Investigation starts production" (Press release). Cineflix. 13 August 2002.
- ^ Luke, Donna (1 January 2003). "No Borders" (Interview). Interviewed by Susan Zeller for Realscreen.
- ^ a b "Cineflix goes global with popular science series Air Crash Investigation. Germany's Prosieben latest channel to acquire the show" (Press release). Cineflix. 2 June 2003.
- ^ "Cineflix International strikes NATGEO deal for new popular science series Mayday" (Press release). Cineflix. 22 October 2003.
- ^ Cineflix Rights seals North and Latin American deals
- ^ "Mayday: Air Disaster - Program Overview". Cineflix Rights. Archived from the original on 7 March 2019. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
- ^ Best Picture Editing in a Documentary Program or Series, Gemini Award, 2010
- ^ 24th: Full list of nominations and winners (PDF), Gemini Award, 2009, p. 6
- ^ "Awards". Canadian Society of Cinematographers. Retrieved 15 October 2010.
- ^ Lewis, Raymond (December 2009). "Air Crash Investigators - comments on a pedagogical strategy to increase intrinsic motivation in order to enhance student learning" (PDF).
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