TV Series · 2003 · TV Series · 2000s
Air Crash Investigation
Scored from 29 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2000s (1,360 peers).
Summary
Each episode of this Canadian documentary series reconstructs one real aviation accident or near-disaster and follows the investigators who worked out why it happened. Dramatised reenactments of the flight deck and cabin are intercut with cockpit voice recorder transcripts, computer animation of the aircraft's final minutes, and interviews with survivors, engineers and officials from agencies such as the NTSB, the TSB and the AAIB. Episodes move from the flight itself through the wreckage examination and competing hypotheses to a probable cause and the design, training or regulatory changes that followed. Produced by Cineflix, it airs as Mayday in Canada and Air Disasters in the United States.
Air Crash Investigation is a 2003 crime, documentary and history television series. Episodes run about 45m. Its certificate is TV-14. Its country of origin is listed as Canada.
Only 29 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 29 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 1,359 2000s television series, not against the whole corpus.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Air Crash Investigation lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against TV Series · 2000s (1,360 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 29.
Cohort: TV Series · 2000s
