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Air Disasters
S21, EP3 "Blown Apart"Partnair Flight 394 loses control, breaks up in mid-air and crashes into the North Sea; the aircraft's vertical stabilizer vibrates loose during flight due to excessive wear on substandard bolts, sleeves and pins that have been illegally sold.
Air Disasters
S18, EP21 "Head-On Collision"With its conductors sound asleep, a freight train fails to stop and collides with an oncoming passenger train, resulting in tragedy.
Air Disasters
S6, EP2 "Bomb on Board"A 1994 terrorist bombing aboard Philippine Airlines Flight 434 forces its pilots into a daring emergency landing.
Air Disasters
S11, EP8 "Terror Over Egypt"When a plane carrying Russian tourists crashes in Egypt, investigators face political tensions and terrorist claims in their search for the truth.
Air Disasters
S2, EP2 "Target Is Destroyed"A Korean Airlines passenger plane is shot down by a Soviet fighter jet in 1983; political tensions nearly escalate into war.
Air Disasters
S17, EP5 "Pacific Plunge"Fifteen minutes after taking off from Puerto Vallarta for San Francisco, the pilots of an MD-83 realize something is very wrong with their plane.
WWII's Most Daring Raids
S1, EP1 "Stealing Hitler's Radar"An elite group of British paratroopers launch a midnight raid in order to capture Hitler's unusual radar equipment.
WWII's Most Daring Raids
S1, EP2 "Easy Company's First Assault"American paratroopers are dropped behind German lines on D-Day in order to secure territory behind the beaches.
Aerial America
S1, EP2 "California"Zoom above, and below, some of the Golden State's greatest monuments.
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.
Air Disasters
S18, EP4 "Dead Tired"Investigating the 2009 crash of Colgan Air Flight 3407; the plane stalls at low altitude and dives into a residential area near Buffalo, N.Y.