
S01E01 The Shock
Annika Sondenheimer, the captain's wife, was serving as a speaker in the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament at around 11:30 a.m. when the news broke that a plane had crashed on its way from Barcelona to...
In Haltern am See, an entire town mourns the students and two teachers who died in the crash. More than two months pass before the remains of the more than 60 German victims are repatriated. The investigation reveals that the co-pilot was mentally ill, and that perhaps this should have been known.
The four-part ARD Crime Time series reconstructs the crash and its aftermath from the perspective of the French police and German investigators, the relatives, Lufthansa, and the public prosecutor's office.