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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
S16, EP6 "Meltdown Over Kathmandu"Landing at one of the world's most challenging airports, a passenger plane comes in like a fighter jet and crashes, killing 51 of the 71 people aboard.
Air Disasters
S7, EP9 "Vertigo"On Jan. 3, 2004, Flash Airlines Flight 604 banks to the right just after takeoff and crashes into the Red Sea, killing all 148 people on board.
Air Disasters
S20, EP14 "Lapse in Security"Three aviation disasters are all linked to breakdowns in vital security measures.
Air Disasters
S19, EP9 "Delivery to Disaster"History's most terrifying air disasters, and the investigations that followed, are revisited and reexamined.
Air Disasters
S20, EP5 "Fuel Trouble"History's most terrifying air disasters, and the investigations that followed, are revisited and reexamined.
Air Disasters
S3, EP4 "Impossible Landing"A look at the fate of United Airlines Flight 232 which crashed into Sioux City's runway in 1989; it caused a subsequent explosion that left 111 people dead.
Combat Ships
S3, EP2 "The Battle of Trafalgar"The legendary Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, which pitted Napoleon's French ships against a British armada under the command of Admiral Horatio Nelson.
Mighty Cruise Ships
S4, EP4 "Diamond Princess"Japan's largest cruise ship brings East and West together on a cruise featuring cherry.
Air Disasters
S20, EP22 "Engine Gone"Three crews experience the same devastating event; with radically different outcomes when an engine falls off their commercial airplane.
Air Disasters
S14, EP9 "Deadly Disturbance"How routine flights can turn catastrophic in mere seconds when the pilots become momentarily distracted; three flights end in a disaster.
Air Disasters
S13, EP3 "Fatal Approach"A false warning in the cockpit triggers a series of pilot errors, sending a commuter plane crashing by the runway of an Amsterdam airport.
Air Disasters
S17, EP9 "Turboprop Terror"When a turboprop stalls and crashes into a North Carolina forest, investigators resort to a risky test flight-and uncover an industry-wide safety problem.
Air Disasters
S3, EP2 "Mayday Munich"A plane with members of the Manchester United football team crashes while heading home from Yugoslavia, killing 23 aboard.
Air Disasters
S4, EP8 "Focused on Failure"On 28 December 1978, the crew of United Airlines Flight 173 are preoccupied with a landing gear problem as the aircraft circles in a holding pattern in the vicinity of Portland, Oregon; it runs out of fuel and crashes in a sparsely populated area.
Air Disasters
S20, EP25 "Landings Gone Wrong"Relying on instinct rather than the rule book, three flights end in tragedy when crews improvise on their final approach.