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Air DisastersS8, EP2 "Testing the Limits"On 26 May 1991, the thrust reverser on the number one engine of Lauda Air Flight 004 deploys in flight without being commanded, causing the aircraft to spiral out of control, disintegrate, and crash about 100 miles northwest of Bangkok.
Air DisastersS18, EP17 "Lost"An American Airlines Flight en route to Cali, Colombia loses their exact position and flies into a mountain.
Air DisastersS8, EP5 "The Final Push"Investigators try to find the cause of two similar air crashes that happened nearly 12 years apart.
Air DisastersS1, EP3 "Behind Closed Doors"A design fault leads to an explosion on a DC-10 and two years later the same design fault causes another tragedy.
Air DisastersS19, EP4 "Power Play"History's most terrifying air disasters, and the investigations that followed, are revisited and reexamined.
Air DisastersS19, EP10 "Mystery Over the Mediterranean"History's most terrifying air disasters, and the investigations that followed, are revisited and reexamined.
Air DisastersS18, EP10 "Flying Blind"A cleaning crew makes a careless error while cleaning a Boeing 757, affecting the plane's computer system and causing it to crash into the Pacific Ocean.
Air DisastersS20, EP18 "Courage in the Cockpit"Devastating failures in the air put pilots to the test, and shine a light on three astonishing feats of flying.
Air DisastersS2, EP1 "Cracks in the System"Chalk's Ocean Airways flight 101 crashes just after take-off from Watson Island in Miami on December 19, 2005, killing 20 people.
Air DisastersS18, EP1 "Cockpit Failure"Bad weather and a series of errors lead to the 2001 crash of a plane on its approach to Zurich Airport.
Air DisastersS6, EP2 "Attack Over Baghdad"A surface-to-air missile cripples a cargo plane after it takes off from Baghdad International Airport.
Air DisastersS13, EP2 "Death Race"When a modified WWII fighter plane crashes into the crowd at a Nevada air show, investigators struggle to find the cause.
D-Day WWII Battles in Color: Blitzkrieg"D-Day WWII Battles in Color: Blitzkrieg"D-Day 80th Anniversary; Germany's "Lightning War" on France is explored through never-before-seen colorized battle footage, newsreels, and personal, firsthand accounts.
D-Day WWII Battles in Color: Barbarossa"D-Day WWII Battles in Color: Barbarossa"D-Day 80th Anniversary; colorized combat footage and home movies give a rare look at Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union.
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