Disasters is a brand new series of eight half-hour documentaries, each one telling the story of a momentous and terrible Irish disaster. Dramatically told using news, current affairs and social documentary footage, the RTÉ Television Archive Unit also talks to some of those whose lives were changed for ever by these events.
The third programme in the Disasters series tells the story of the “Beaujolais” air crash on 13th November 1984. Nine men were killed, including four of Ireland’s best-known journalists, when their plane went out of control and disintegrated at 19,000 feet. The wreckage was spread over several miles in rolling hills near Eastbourne, England.
Narrated by Doireann Ni Bhriain, Disasters also features ; The British Midland (1989) Plane Crash; Central Hotel Fire Bundoran (1980); Doolin Drownings (1983); Loreto Convent Fire, St. Stephen’s Green (1986); and the loss of three Donegal trawlers in 1975, 1976 and 1981.