44min - During the nighttime rush hour, Air Traffic Controller George Perkins gets the call all controllers dread: a plane needs to make an emergency landing at Dubai after an engine shutdown. He has to clear the runway and scramble the emergency services for a landing that could shutter the airport. Elsewhere, Airport Services is called in to find out why a transit passenger has live snakes in her bag.
44min - Firefighters rush to the aid of a 777 full of passengers that touches down with smoking landing gear. A man loses his son in the world's biggest airport terminal just minutes before their plane is due to depart, and two passengers arrive at Customs with bags stuffed full of the most expensive wood in the world.
44min - Customs finds secret compartments in a Pakistani passenger's bags, hiding a large cache of heroin. Meanwhile, a new plane park will house a fleet of Boeing 777s during the airport's 80-day, billion-dollar runway upgrade, but there is a massive slope to get in and out of it, and Pushback Operator Mark Dearden's skills are put to the test as he finds out if he can tow a 300-ton plane down the entry slope without careening out of control.
44min - Customs finds half a million dollars' worth of crystal meth in the luggage of a passenger from Ghana. A pigeon delays an Emirates flight at Manchester, and dozens of passengers may not make their tight connections in Dubai. On the ramp, missing cargo delays ground dispatch as they race to get a flight out on time.
44min - An Emirates Line Maintenance engineer has an hour to fix a water pump on a Boeing 777 or it won't be able to depart – potentially disrupting the airline's whole network. A team of cargo dispatchers have to load a massive 11-ton plane engine through a tight cargo hatch – which could cause costly damage to the multi-million dollar engine, or the 300 million dollar plane.
44min - In this episode, heavy-work on the world's largest superjet suffers a series of setbacks, and for the first time ever, both runways of Dubai International are being closed back to back, in a billion-dollar reconstruction project. We follow them on the first day of the North Runway closure, which follows almost a month of work on the South Runway.
44min - During the night Customs Officer Mustafa Ahmed pulls over a man who has a suitcase full of white shirts, and the Mobile Drug testing unit discovers a huge cache of cocaine hidden in the lining of the shirts. Ground Dispatcher Carl Knight is facing a multitude of problems with a flight to Afghanistan that is parked three miles away from the terminal, with no containers to put luggage in.
44min - Customs agents are suspicious of a man carrying uncut diamonds in his luggage. A cargo of racehorses from France pose a logistical challenge when the transporting equipment gets jammed. A suspected cardiac arrest aboard an incoming flight causes medical teams to scramble. And Network Control must find a replacement plane in time to reschedule a flight to Nice.
44min - In this episode, a rookie A380 pilot steps out of the simulator and holds over 400 lives in his hands on his maiden flight to Munich. Meanwhile, one of the world's biggest passenger jets comes into the high-tech Aircraft Appearance Centre to get a luxury sports-car style makeover under the watchful eye of an Emirates Paint Controller.
44min - In this episode, an incoming aircraft with a hydraulics problem threatens to bring every flight to a halt; 40,000 thousand feet above a virtual Dubai, two trainee A380 pilots simulate an almost identical emergency; and an inspection of the upgraded southern runway delays the re-opening, which is bad news for the airport's billion-dollar engineering program and recording artist Cat Stevens.
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