Nixies shown during “Air Disasters“ (S14, Ep7 on Smithsonian Channel) for Pan Am 103

[Jon D.]

The last third of this episode was about the Pan Am 103 in-flight explosion investigation (the Lockerbie bombing). In the section where, a year or so later, investigators identified the exact timing mechanism (by matching a tiny piece of a circuit board found among the clothing from the Samsonite suitcase they determined the bomb was in), they showed this Nixie display for a brief second for effect.

[Scott McInness]

Well spotted, Jon. That episode is more commonly known as s07e02 of “Air Crash Investigation” or “Mayday”, which originally aired on 12 November 2009.

 

Assuming that, copyright-wise, one second out of a 42-minute show is no more problematic than a couple of screenshots (it’s less than 0.4% of the episode), here are the 22 frames (plus one additional frame retained either side). It appears at ~36:26 in the episode.

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[Scott McInness]

Oops, I mis-typed the percentage - it’s less than 0.04% of the episode.