24 March 2015, Germanwings flight 9525: The problem with the the investigation is that a cause was determined relatively early on. Germanwings: What Happened on Flight 9525? comment, Sky Documentaries 2025
Pieces were scattered on the mountainside across a huge surface area. ibid.
Good evening, the mystery of the silent plane continues … ibid. TV news
It was very disturbing to me to hear the prosecutor suggest that this was a deliberate act. ibid.
Journalists from all over the world beseige the co-pilot’s parents’ house day and night. ibid.
Throughout time governments and the people who work for them have done strange and even terrible things in the name of national security. Secrets Declassified with David Duchovny s1e1: Secrets of the Skies, History 2025
‘So the government tasked Lockheed to build this spy plane. And their solution is essentially to make a giant glider, and to stick a jet engine on it.’
Lockheed’ engineers call its new creation The Angel [U-2 spyplane]. ibid.
The name of the U2’s secret test base is … Area 51. ibid.
Agent Ace seems to be a British engineer who is leaking [Concorde] information to the Soviets. ibid.
The Report: ‘In one of these incidents, a B-52 bomber had to jettison a 24-megaton bomb over North Carolina. The bomb fell in a field without exploding’. ibid.
‘Stealing a MiG: On 16 August 1966 an Iraqi air force MiG-21, then the most advanced fighter plane supplied by the Soviet Union to the Arab states, landed at an air base in northern Israel, bringing to a successful conclusion one of the most complex and brilliant clandestine operations ever mounted by the Mossad.’ ibid. report
Welcome to Kuwait national airport. The local time is 4:13 in the morning. Flight 149: Hostage of War, Sky 2025
And then there’s this moment when you just think, Fuck. ibid. passenger
This was our first international trip. We were just dumbfounded that courtesy of British Airways dropped us in the middle of a war. ibid.
It looked like the gates of Hell had opened. ibid.
But then the victims and survivors approached us claiming they were victims of a government cover-up … a terrible miscarriage of justice … Why didn’t they turn that flight around? ibid. lawyer
We were taken to the Regency Palace It was the most opulent hotel I’ve ever been in. ibid. passenger
The Iraqi Army killed Kuwaiti civilians for the slightest reason. ibid. comment
Under Saddam’s orders, over 3,000 Western hostages, including the passengers and crew of BA149, were taken to various strategic locations across Iraq and Kuwait as human shields. ibid. caption
One of the biggest hostage crisis the world had every seen. ibid. comment
We were obviously concered that retaliation for her [Thatcher] harsh words would fall on our heads. ibid. passenger
There was a group who boarded fairly late. And these guys very lean. Obviously some kind of cohesive group. ibid.
Our government knew. Our government put those men on our plane. ibid.
The secret team were there to report back on the movements of Iraqi troops. ibid. comment
I got two sworn affidavits about the mission. ibid.
Somebody in British Airways at a very hight level must have known about it and agreed to it. ibid. MI6 embassy dude
On the 6th December, Saddam Hussein suddenly announced that all remaining hostages were to be freed after 126 days in captivity. ibid. caption
June 12th 2025: Air India Flight 171 crashes killing 241 people on board, and 19 others on the ground. Air Crash India: What Went Wrong? Channel 4 2025
A bombshell report by the investigators is released. It states that the fuel supply to both engines was cut off shortly after take-off. ibid.
A giant kerosene fireball erupts into the air.
Vishwas Kumar Ramesh: The only passenger left alive. ibid.
‘I’ve never seen anything like that in my 42 years of flying. ibid. comment
The worst plane crash in a decade. ibid.
Or is there some other explanation? ibid.
John Denver was a legendary singer song-writer … On the afternoon of 12th October 1997, experienced pilot John Denver crashed his plane into the Pacific Ocean. Autopsy: The Last Hours Of … s7e10: John Denver, Channel 5 2017
John was unceromoniously dumped by his record label RCA. This catalogue of disasters sent John on a downward spiral. ibid.
John begins his maiden solo flight in his Long Easy. ibid.
John Denver thought that he had enough fuel … All evidence points to John Denver’s plane backfiring. ibid.
The Duke of Kent, glamorous brother of King George VI and a favourite uncle of Queen Elizabeth II, who died tragically in a World War II plane crash. An accident shrouded in conspiracy theories. In this film we review key missing reports to solve this decades-old mystery. It’s the ultimate royal scandal. The Forgotten Prince: The Mystery of the Duke of Kent, Channel 5 2026
Prince George, Duke of Kent, younger brother of King George VI, had tragically died alongside 13 other crew and passengers. ibid.
BD092: This was the ill-fated British Midland plane several hours before the disaster landing safely at Heathrow on its routine shuttle run from Belfast. Kegworth: Flight to Disaster, BBC 2026
‘It actually smelt new. It was a brand-new aircraft.’ ibid. passenger
‘What I see is showers of sparks coming out from the back end of the engine on that side.’ ibid.
‘The flames were coming out of the engine, then is just suddenly stopped.’ ibid.
‘The plane was coming down without any engines.’ ibid.
BBC newsflash: ‘An airliner with 118 passengers on board has crashed on the M1 motorway in Leicestershire.’ ibid.
[John Barnett, Boeing Quality Manager 1985-2017]: Going against a big company like Boeing does not happen every day. Freefall: A Reckoning for Boeing, Netflix 2026
So what he was instructing people to do was violate rules and regulations that they could be actually held liable, criminally charged for. We could very well be putting the public at risk. ibid. John’s deposition
Boeing has given the world another reason to stop flying. ibid. news
Then all of a sudden the whole atmosphere changed. ibid. employee
Jim McNerney was a long-time executive at General Electric … When McNerney takes over, Boeing goes all in on the Jack Welch-style ‘profits above all else’. ibid. comment
Boeing’s plan was to build this plane [787 Dreamliner] for $5 billion, half of what it would normally have cost. ibid.
They were going to be outsourcing major sections of the airplane to save money. ibid.
Boeing finds 787 pieces aren’t quite a perfect fit. ibid. The Seattle Times online article
And McNerny hated unions … he’s saying, We’ll, were gonna build a second 787 line in South Carolina. ibid. comment
Charleston had a workforce that simply didn’t know how to construct one of the most complicated machines in the world. Mistakes started piling up almost immediately. ibid.
I was instructed to get rid of the video. ibid. quality manager
When McNerny stepped down, the board installed his hand-picked successor, Dennis Muilenburg. ibid.
Nothing changes. It actually gets worse. ibid. quality manager
Just a little [electrical] short will bring down a whole plane. ibid.
I see the quality of the fucking shit going down here. ibid. comment
Scrap parts were put back on the airplane for years and years. ibid. quality manager