The recent development of the last couple of years is that native series have been doing way better than before. I don't know if this is initiated by the Belgian series which have been doing really well internationally, or that budgets just have shifted into different directions and there is more room for making actual decent series. Whatever the season is, I like it because it is bringing really good value on the screen.
'Rampvlucht' is a faction serie (facts and fiction intertwined) about Hollands biggest aviation disaster in 1992 which we always refer to as the 'Bijlmerramp'. This because a cargo plane crashed into an area in Amsterdam called the Bijlmer and literally hit an appartment building here in 1992 killing 43 people with the initial crash.
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I remember this happening as a kid, but not understanding the full magnitude of all of it. We knew a plane had hit an appartment building, killing a lot of people, but why this was still in the news years after...As kids we had no idea what kind of scandal there was all behind it.
Disasters are always a chain of critical events, not a singular moment of crap.
In a nutshell what happened for the plane to go down, (I would advice you to watch and episode of the series 'Air Crash investigations' and then season 14 episode one called 'High Rise') is that engine number 3 failed and ripped off engine number 4 making the plane uncontrollable. After calling a Mayday the cargo plane was trying to get back to Schiphol airport, but tried to make a landing on an unlikely runway, leaving it to have its flight route over a densed populated area where it crashed into a high rise.
A long time there was speculated about the amount of casualties and missing people, because this appartment building had a lot of unregistered citizens and that made it difficult to know the exact number. The good thing was this was a cargo plane only carrying 3 crew members and not a commercial flight.
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The bad thing was that this was a flight that wanted to stay off of the radar because of its freight and because of its relation between Holland and Israel and that made the investigation around the health issues people developed after the crash really challenging as all channels were trying to downgrade the physical impact of the disaster on peoples health.
Now a lot went wrong in these years, and the series 'Rampvlucht' decided to choose to show the aspect of the citizens and their health issues and what was as a cargo on this flight potentially causing the health issues. Because the area of where this building was located was a minority area at that time, a lot of people were also not keep on speaking up, and when they did, they found their complaints were not taken seriously at all.
But most of all what comes up in the series is that the official lines seem to not be keep at all on sharing their information why and how certain decisions were made.
As said...this all happened when I was a kid at the time, but seeing what happened down over the years is disturbing for the least to say. And the official documents regarding the details of the flight? Locked away until 2062. Conveniantly far away, don't you think?
Check out the trailer, yes it is in Dutch though and Spreekbuis is the source
I found the documentary disturbing to say for the least, and I would invite everyone to take a look and form their own opinion about it. As said, it is a series of 'faction' but regarding the investigation..that part is all based on facts as it seems.
I wonder if the same sort of disaster would happen nowadays with all the forms of information we have access to now, if the outcome would be the same.