While they have done a few recent things (Kobe Bryant accident, 737MAX) they generally focus on stuff from a decade or more in the past. They've done JFK Jr.'s and also (IIRC) John Denver's crashes.Before that it was Discovery’s “Wings”. Rough few years between that and Air Disasters.
So if aviation gets safe enough they stop Air Disasters, well, I don’t know... I’m. Hey, I don’t really wanna think about it...
They could get in more investigation in that hour if there wasn’t so much dramatization. But it’s a TV show and they need advertisers who need lotsa people watching and folk like pretty faces to look at and blah blah……….I enjoy watching it, but I accept it for what it is. It's difficult to cram weeks and months of investigation into less than an hour without omitting important steps and information.
I've been on numerous failure review boards for missile flight failures over the years, so I have some idea of what it's like to figure out what happened from mangled wreckage scattered over the desert floor plus some scant recorded data. It's fascinating work, and there's just no way to capture all the challenges in a TV episode, but they do a pretty fair job.
This seems appropriate.They could get in more investigation in that hour if there wasn’t so much dramatization. But it’s a TV show and they need advertisers who need lotsa people watching and folk like pretty faces to look at and blah blah……….