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Aerial America
S1, EP57 "Puerto Rico & US Virgin Islands"A tour over two U.S. territories, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Air Crash Investigation
S23, EP1 "Terror over the Pacific"On the 24th of February 1989, part of the right-side fuselage of United Airlines Flight 811 rips off, ejecting nine people from the aircraft and causing explosive decompression; the flight later lands safely at Honolulu without any more loss of life.
Air Disasters
S2, EP402 "Disaster At Dutch Harbor"While landing at a notoriously tricky Alaskan island airport, the pilots of a twin turboprop can't stop their plane.
Air Disasters
S2, EP403 "Deadly Departure"After a DC-8 cargo plane with only three working engines crashes on takeoff in Kansas City, investigators uncover a flaw in the pilots' training.
Air Disasters
S2, EP404 "Without Warning"Two float planes collide midair near an Alaskan waterfall. One shatters; the other crash-lands intact. With no warning before impact, investigators use wreckage clues and 3D tech to uncover how-and why-the deadly crash occurred.
Air Disasters
S2, EP405 "Eleven Deadly Seconds"Solving the crash of China Airlines Flight 676 hinges on 11 baffling seconds when neither pilot controls the airplane.
Air Crash Investigation Special Report
"Fight for Survival"As flames emerge through the cockpit floor, the pilots of Pilgrim Airlines 458 manage a landing on a frozen Rhode Island reservoir.
Air Crash Investigation
S24, EP7 "Pitch Battle"Colgan Air 9446 nosedives into the waters off Cape Cod just minutes after takeoff following a four-day maintenance stop.
How Did They Build That?
S1, EP3 "Biomes & Rebuilds"A London railway station; giant Singapore biodomes; eye-catching hospital in Las Vegas.
How Did They Build That?
S3, EP5 "Heights & Balance"A 1.2-million-square-foot office building balances precariously on a 39-foot wide base in Chicago; a building named Pterodactyl lands on top of a Los Angeles parking garage; the world's longest suspension footbridge.
How Did They Build That?
S4, EP9 "Super Stadiums & Extraordinary Elevators"Examine the sightlines in Los Angeles's SoFi Stadium, which sits right in the flight path of LAX; celebrate the ingenuity of the inexperienced crew that built a monumental skyscraper in Malta; visit a forest tower designed for testing elevators.
How Did They Build That?
S3, EP1 "Fantastic & Futuristic"Challenges beset a sculptural new transportation hub for New York's World Trade Center; Amsterdam gains a building inspired by a mountain valley; a new launchpad for space travel prepares for liftoff in the New Mexico desert.
Air Crash Investigation
S24, EP10 "Deadly Directive"Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashes shortly after takeoff.
Air Disasters
S12, EP7 "Free Fall"A computer glitch causes a highly automated Qantas Airways flight to nearly fall out of the sky; Australian investigators must find the cause before it happens again.
Air Disasters
"Sabotage"From delusional hijackers to suicidal pilots, three flights fall victim to astonishing acts of sabotage.
Air Disasters
S9, EP10 "Deadly Mission"A new investigation sheds light on the controversial 1961 plane crash that killed U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld.