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Air Disasters
S9, EP1 "Fatal Transmission"A runway collision at a small airport turns tragic when passengers cannot escape the burning aircraft.
Air Disasters
S20, EP20 "Take Off Tragedies"Three flights ending in tragedy, prove that minor missteps during takeoff can have disastrous consequences.
Air Disasters
S18, EP17 "Lost"Investigators struggle to determine why a 757 strayed off course during its final approach to a Colombia airport and crashed into a mountain.
Air Disasters
S19, EP5 "Control Catastrophe"Experts investigate an unfortunate string of events that caused the freshly serviced Air Astana Flight 1388 to become completely uncontrollable.
Combat Ships
S4, EP8 "Lightning Strikes"Examining some of maritime history's most effective lightning strikes; how the French frigate Nivôse set a trap to lure Somali pirates; how the HMS Illustrious captured a well-defended Mediterranean harbor in WWII; a surprise attack on Tokyo in 1942.
Combat Ships
S1, EP10 "Secrets and Lies"A look at how the art of deception was used by naval forces in the first half of the 20th century; in 1939, the German raider Atlantis is equipped with fake funnels, while its sailors dressed as women pushing prams to fool Allied merchant ships.
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.
Air Disasters
S19, EP3 "Pressure Point"Investigators race to determine the cause of the deadliest single aircraft accident in history: the 1985 crash of Japan Airlines 123, which claimed 520 lives.
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.
Air Disasters
S14, EP6 "Killer in the Cockpit?"A look at the commercial flights that ended in disaster because of suspected murder-suicide.
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.
Air Disasters
S2, EP6 "Cold Case"Two identical plane crashes involving the same icy conditions and the same plane design are examined, revealing why neither disaster should have happened.
Air Disasters
S18, EP8 "Racing the Storm"An MD-82 crash lands in Arkansas during a severe thunderstorm; but investigators believe weather is not the main reason for the accident.