About this season
Garth Barnard has a lifelong passion and unshakeable resolve to investigate how thousands of young Airmen from the Second World War died in catastrophic air accidents and training crashes.
Episodes (6)
1. Lost & Confused - Sharp Top Mountain B-25 Crash
Aired 24 November 2014
Garth Barnard investigates shocking WWII air accidents, starting with a tragic B-25 training crash in Virginia that killed five crew.
2. Death in the Moonlight: Turweston Wellington Collision
Aired 1 December 2014
In 1944, two Wellington bombers collided in mid-air over Northants. Garth Barnard investigates why 13 young trainees perished.
3. Australia's Worst Air Crash: Baker's Creek
Aired 8 December 2014
Australia's worst aviation accident happened in 1943, when 40 crew died in a B-17 bomber crash. Hear why this awful incident was hushed up.
4. Death on the Great Plains: Naper 28
Aired 15 December 2014
Garth Barnard fact-finds to determine the cause of a terrible accident in Nebraska in 1944, when a transport plane crashed during a violent storm.
5. Conspiracy or Confusion? The Duke of Kent
Aired 22 December 2014
Controversial royal Prince George perished in a plane crash in 1942: was pilot error or sabotage to blame? Garth Barnard uncovers the truth
6. Sikorski's Last Flight
Aired 13 January 2015
Conspiracy theories abound about the death of Wladyslaw Sikorski, the Polish PM whose plane crashed soon after take off in 1943. We explore this complex case.