Air Crash Investigation

The programme reconstructs the 2007 Air Moorea Flight 1121 disaster, which happened just one minute after take‑off from a French‑Polynesian island. The impact killed the pilot and all 19 passengers on board, resulting in a total loss of life in this tragic event.

Terror in Paradise is a television programme presented as an episode within a documentary series. It falls under the genre of reconstructed disaster narratives, focusing on real‑life aviation accidents. The show aims to recreate events for viewers, using available evidence to illustrate what happened. It is structured as a single episode that reexamines a specific incident. The episode centres on the 2007 tragedy involving Air Moorea Flight 1121. It reconstructs the moment when the aircraft left the runway and, within a minute, suffered a catastrophic failure that led to a crash. The reconstruction draws on the known timeline of the flight’s brief existence in the air. The crash took place shortly after take‑off from a French‑Polynesian island, highlighting how quickly the disaster unfolded. By focusing on that narrow window of time, the programme illustrates the rapid sequence of events that turned a routine departure into a fatal accident. The setting on the island provides the geographical context for the incident. The outcome of the crash was total loss of life. Both the pilot and the nineteen passengers aboard the aircraft were killed. The episode conveys the human cost of the accident, underscoring that no one survived the impact. This stark result forms the concluding focus of the reconstruction.