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Air DisastersS5, EP9 "Getting Out Alive"Air accident survival stories; keeping passengers and crews alive when disaster strikes.
Air DisastersS15, EP4 "Taxiway Turmoil"A departing DC-9 in Detroit gets lost in the fog and ends up in the path of an oncoming 727.
Air DisastersS11, EP7 "Caught on Tape"The dashcam of a passing car captures stunning footage of the final moments of a Taiwanese commuter aircraft as it banks steeply, clips an elevated highway and nosedives into the river; investigators find no signs of pre-impact malfunction.
Air DisastersS4, EP12 "Seconds to Survive"On 21 February 2008, Santa Bárbara Airlines Flight 518 strays off course and flies into the side of a mountain shortly after takeoff.
Air DisastersS8, EP10 "Death in the Arctic"On 20 August 2011, First Air Flight 6560, a charter flight, crashes near its destination of Resolute Bay Airport, Resolute, Nunavut, Canada, in poor weather conditions; out of the fifteen passengers and crew members, only three survived.
Air DisastersS5, EP1 "Fight to the Death"On 18 June 1972, British European Airways Flight 548 stalls and crashes in a field near Staines shortly after takeoff from London Heathrow Airport, killing all 118 people on board.
Air DisastersS9, EP1 "Fatal Transmission"A runway collision at a small airport turns tragic when passengers cannot escape the burning aircraft.
D-Day Dambusters"D-Day Dambusters"D-Day 80th Anniversary: Rare footage, classified files and eyewitness accounts, shine a light on how the Dambusters helped win D-Day.
D-Day Combat Ships"D-Day Combat Ships"D-Day 80th Anniversary: A retelling of the D-Day invasion and its critical naval operation involving an armada of diverse and ingenious vessels.
D-Day Most Daring Raids: Easy Company's First Assault"D-Day Most Daring Raids: Easy Company's First Assault"D-Day 80th Anniversary: Easy Company's mission to take out German howitzers hours before the D-Day invasion.
Air DisastersS18, EP5 "Hudson River Runway"US Airways Flight 1549 suffers a bird strike with a flock of Canada geese, causing both engines to fail.
Air DisastersS2, EP4 "Panic on the Runway"On August 22nd, 1985, 55 people died aboard British Airtours flight 28M when its engine catches fire as it accelerates.
Air DisastersS11, EP10 "The Lost Plane"Investigators struggle to understand the unusual flight path and Himalayan crash site of Thai Airways Flight 311.
Air DisastersS10, EP3 "Disaster at Tenerife"Two 747s collide on the runway of a small airport in the Canary Islands, resulting in history's deadliest air crash.
Air DisastersS18, EP11 "Cutting Corners"The 2000 crash of an Alaska Airlines plane just off the California coast leads to a disturbing discovery about the company's cost-cutting procedures.
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