At 2:23pm on August 20th 2008, Spainair flight JK5022 was cleared for take-off, despite prior reports of abnormally high temperatures on-board. 90 seconds later, the airbourne plane hit the ground, killing 154 people and seriously injuring a further 18.

Ahead of the tragic event’s 15th anniversary in 2023 in August 2023, and after two complex investigations, this docuseries calls upon eye-witness reports, rare archive footage and reconstructions to re-examine the worst crash in Spain’s history and help undersand what exactly went wrong and who is to blame.

The docuseries looks beyond Flight JK5022, to the aviation industry as a whole, posing the even bigger question: could a tragedy like this ever happen again?