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Air Disasters
S13, EP5 "Deadly Pitch"A team of experts investigates in detail the carnage of a cargo plane; an anonymous tip helps explain why a cargo plane crashed just moments after taking off from Miami.
Air Disasters
S14, EP1 "Communication Breakdown"A look at three deadly air disasters that are caused by misunderstandings between pilots and air traffic controllers.
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
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"Air Disasters
S19, EP9 "Delivery to Disaster"History's most terrifying air disasters, and the investigations that followed, are revisited and reexamined.
Air Crash Investigation
S24, EP7 "Pitch Battle"Colgan Air 9446 nosedives into the waters off Cape Cod just minutes after takeoff following a four-day maintenance stop.
Air Disasters
S10, EP7 "Murder in the Skies"When Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps, investigators discover shocking truths about the co-pilot's mental health.
Air Disasters
S5, EP8 "Imperfect Pitch"On 27 November 2008, an aircraft on a post-maintenance test flight operating as XL Airways Germany Flight 888T stalls and crashes into the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of France, killing all seven people on board.
Air Disasters
S6, EP8 "Death and Denial"In 1999, EgyptAir Flight 990 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean while flying from New York City to Cairo, killing all 217 people on board; the cause of the crash is disputed.
Air Disasters
S2, EP5 "Alarming Silence"Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes shortly after take-off in Detroit in 1987; a fatal preflight error caused the second-deadliest plane crash in the U.S. history.
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
S9, EP7 "Deadly Delay"Almost immediately after taking off from Madrid International Airport, Spanair Flight 5022 banked to the right, slammed into a creek and burst into flames.