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Air Disasters
S20, EP29 "Splash Down"Three last-resort water landings, all handled differently yet each one crucial to improving the outcomes of ditching on open water.
Air Disasters
S20, EP19 "Maintenance Mistakes"A trio of crashes reveals that when the nuts and bolts of maintenance go unchecked, it can spell catastrophe.
Air Disasters
S12, EP4 "Deadly Airspace"When a commercial airliner goes down in eastern Ukraine in 2014, examiners must conduct an investigation in the middle of a war zone.
Air Disasters
S7, EP6 "Panic Over the Pacific"A miraculous rescue is launched after a 747 plummets toward the Pacific.
Aerial America
S1, EP21 "Michigan"A flying tour of Michigan's cultural landmarks, including Motown, the Great Lakes, the automobile industry and more.
Aerial America
S1, EP66 "Southern California"A soaring tour over Southern California explores the stunning beaches, vast deserts, sprawling city and unique culture.
Aerial America
S1, EP61 "Man-Made Marvels"A coast-to-coast tour over America's man-made structures, old and new; the Statue of Liberty and the Golden Gate Bridge.
Air Disasters
S1, EP8 "Mixed Signals"Within five minutes of takeoff, the Dominican Republic bound Birgenair Flight 301 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean; a series of confusing signals crashes the plane.
Air Disasters
S20, EP26 "Frozen Wings"The consequences are disastrous when ice forms on an airplane's wings; three planes are brought down by ice, and it's up to investigators to determine how modern aircraft could possibly end up with frozen wings.
Air Disasters
S19, EP6 "Cockpit Catastrophe"The cockpit window of an Airbus A319 explodes; pilots miraculously land the out-of-control plane; investigators must determine how the freshly serviced aircraft was released with a fatal flaw.
Air Disasters
S15, EP8 "No Warning"Investigators must figure out why the safety systems of a turboprop plane failed to prevent a crash into an Indonesian mountain.
Combat Ships
S2, EP6 "Galleons and Privateers"Revolutionary ship design helped Sir John Hawkins and Sir Francis Drake lead England to defeat the Spanish Armada and become a world power.
Combat Ships
S3, EP7 "The Fast and Furious"A look at Naval warfare's fastest combat ships and how the advantage of speed determined the outcome of some of the great seas battles of the last 150 years.
Combat Ships
S2, EP3 "Doomed Vessels"Bad design, human error and the enemy sent great ships to tragic ends, like Britain's K13 submarine and HMS Hood, Sweden's 17th century Vasa, and Kublai Khan's fleet, sunk by the original kamikaze.
Combat Ships
S1, EP4 "Metal War Ships"The evolution from wooden ships to metal ones in the second half of the 19th century is examined.