The film explores the background and build-up to this final flight to disaster. Using dramatic reconstruction, archive footage and exclusive interviews with leading historians and engineering experts, the special delves into the political and scientific events that led up to the catastrophe.

• Smithsonian Institution
• Pioneer Productions
• John Shrapnel
• Malcolm Tierney
• Gerard Monaco
• Simon Lowe
• Michael Praed
• Thorston Manderlay
• Kamil Krawczykowski
• John Edmondson