Mayday

Season 12, Episode 3

Episode Title: Caution to the Wind (Singapore Airlines Flight 006)

Air Date: 2012-08-17

Overview:

On 31 October 2000, Singapore Airlines Flight 006 collides with construction equipment at Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taipei while attempting to take off on the wrong runway in a typhoon. 83 of the 179 passengers and crew members perish. Investigators concluded that pilot error was the cause of the crash.