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Air Disasters
S21, EP5 "Operation Babylift"A United States Air Force transport aircraft conducting the inaugural flight of Operation Babylift suffers an explosive decompression when the rear cargo door fails and crashes into a paddy field while attempting an emergency landing.
Air Disasters
S21, EP6 "Falling Fast"Investigators discover a shocking mistake when pilots must ditch their plane in the Mediterranean, killing 14 of the 34 passengers.
Air Disasters
S12, EP3 "Deadly Distraction"Delta Air Lines Flight 1141 crashes beyond the runway while taking off from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.
Air Disasters
S15, EP4 "Taxiway Turmoil"Experts examine a departing DC-9 in Detroit which gets lost in the fog and ends up in the path of an oncoming 727.
Air Disasters
S18, EP18 "Missing Over New York"Avianca Flight 52 is delayed numerous times by bad weather en route; it is dangerously low on fuel as it attempts a landing at New York City.
Air Disasters
S5, EP7 "Massacre Over the Mediterranean"On June 27, 1980, Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 crashes into the Tyrrhenian Sea near the island of Ustica, Italy; all 81 people on board are killed.
Air Disasters
S10, EP6 "Dangerous Approach"A Colorado commuter flight crashes five miles short of the runway and the reasons why rock the airline industry.
Air Disasters
S10, EP8 "River Runway"Pilots attempt to land their Boeing 737 in an Indonesian river after losing their engines and electrical power.
Air Warriors
S9, EP6 "Galaxy"An inside look at the U.S. Air Force's largest aircraft, the C-5 Galaxy; its most dramatic combat and peacetime missions over the last 50 years.
Air Warriors
S6, EP5 "OV-10 Bronco"The Vietnam-era OV-10 Bronco is pulled out of retirement to join the fight against ISIS.
Air Warriors
S6, EP6 "MiG"The history of the Russian MiG, American air power's fiercest rival for more than 50 years.
Air Warriors
S8, EP4 "Messerschmitt BF 109"Considered the deadliest fighter of WWII, Germany's Me-109s were feared by Allied bombers and fighters alike; 109s fought Spitfires in the Battle of Britain and alongside Rommel in North Africa.
Aerial America
S1, EP48 "Wilderness"A cross-country flight over icy landscapes in Alaska's Denali, vast wetlands in Florida's Everglades, and over 100 million acres of badlands, deserts, and mountains.
Aerial America
S1, EP17 "North Carolina"The Wright Brothers gave the state its slogan "First in Flight"; civil rights leaders in Greensboro; NASCAR.
Aerial America
S1, EP35 "Made in the USA"A cross-country flight across America reveals the nation's most iconic industries, the people behind them and the stories of how they came to be.
Aerial America
S1, EP42 "The Dakotas"A flight over North and South Dakota reveals the shared history and the vast differences of these sibling states.