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Air Crash Investigation Special Report
S6, EP5 "Training Ignored"Investigators hunt for answers when the pilots of three aircraft skip protocols, ignore their training and crash.
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.
Combat Ships
S2, EP4 "Destroyers and Cruisers"The ships that made mighty empires, from the lone wolves that patrolled the high seas for imperial Britain to the USS Laffey's heroic WWII battle against kamikazes at Okinawa.
Combat Ships
S1, EP7 "Rescue Ships"A look at some of the rescue ships of the past 200 years of wartime and the brave men and women who risked their lives to save others.
Combat Ships
S3, EP1 "Game Changers"A look at experimental ships and revolutionary designers that have changed the tide of war through the centuries.
Combat Ships
S4, EP5 "Mutiny"A look at how technological advances over the centuries have transformed maritime warfare.
Combat Ships
S2, EP2 "Stealth"Vessels that operate in secret, unseen by their enemies, from secret missions that helped win World War II to modern stealth ships using strange shapes and technology to avoid spying ears and eyes.
Combat Ships
S4, EP6 "Smugglers and Pirates"A look at how maritime task forces and the Coast Guard are keeping commercial vessels and US shores safe from pirates and drug smugglers.
Air Disasters
S16, EP8 "Caught in a Jam"A commuter turboprop crashes onto hilly terrain in New Zealand; the search for answers inevitably leads to the cockpit.
Air Disasters
S5, EP2 "Speed Trap"Joining NTSB and military experts as they work together to uncover how a fighter jet could collide with a civilian flight.
Air Disasters
S9, EP4 "Fatal Focus"When a 737 careens off the runway in Indonesia, investigators uncover a shocking explanation for the crash.
Air Disasters
S14, EP10 "Fire on Board"A look at the fatal consequences that can occur when a fire breaks out on a plane; three flights that erupted in flames and the investigations that changed aviation forever.
Air Disasters
S3, EP7 "Under Pressure"On July 11, 1991, the crew of Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 unsuccessfully tries to return to the airport after a burst tire creates an in-flight fire which causes 247 Nigerian pilgrims and 14 crew to perish.
Air Disasters
S9, EP8 "Steep Impact"When the crash of a commuter plane in Georgia kills a NASA astronaut, a four-term U.S. senator and 21 others, the disaster grabs headlines around the world.
Air Disasters
S20, EP21 "Dead of Night"Confused, flying blind and lost in the dark, three crews lose sight of the horizon and fall into the same deadly trap.
Air Disasters
S14, EP8 "Controversial Crashes"Seeing how international investigative teams must overcome differences to solve controversial plane crashes.