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Air Disasters
S24, EP5 "Eleven Deadly Seconds"Solving the crash of China Airlines Flight 676 hinges on 11 baffling seconds when neither pilot controls the airplane.
Air Disasters
S24, EP6 "Fight For Survival"With flames emerging through the cockpit floor, the pilots of Pilgrim Airlines 458 manage a heroic landing on a frozen Rhode Island reservoir.
Air Disasters
S24, EP7 "Pitch Battle"After Colgan Air 9446 crashes off Cape Cod, investigators must determine what brought down a widely-used commuter aircraft in under three minutes.
Air Disasters
S16, EP10 "Deadly Delivery"UPS Airlines Flight 1354 clips the tops of trees and crashes into a hillside about one nautical mile short of the runway during final approach to Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport in Alabama.
Air Disasters
S1, EP3 "Behind Closed Doors"A design fault leads to an explosion on a DC-10 and two years later the same design fault causes another tragedy.
Air Disasters
S18, EP19 "Runaway Train"A freight train carrying an excess of cargo loses its brakes while descending a mountain causing it to gain speed and derail into a neighborhood killing several people.
Air Disasters
S24, EP9 "Lost Star Footballer"With rising young football star Emiliano Sala on board, a chartered Piper Malibu suddenly disappears from radar over the English Channel.
Combat Ships
S1, EP5 "Torpedo Boats"From tests in the River Thames, to the German's deadly U-boat attacks in World War II, this episode explores the silent threat of submarines.
Air Disasters
S10, 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 Disasters
S7, EP1 "Miracle Escape"Passengers and crew escape a jet that skid off the runway before catching fire.
Air Disasters
S13, EP1 "Deadly Descent"When an airbus A330 loses both engines, its pilots must think of a solution before they crash into the South China Sea.
Air Disasters
S10, EP4 "Deadly Detail"After a seemingly routine landing, a Boeing 737 erupts in flames, putting 165 debarking passengers and crew in jeopardy.
Air Disasters
S6, EP3 "Fight for Your Life"Three FedEx employees must regain control of their plane when a coworker attacks them in midair.
Air Disasters
S20, EP10 "Design Flaws"When former race car driver Niki Lauda's planes nosedives into a Thai jungle, a one-in-a-million failure reveals a weak spot in every Boeing 767; radio silence between pilots and air traffic controllers send investigators hunting for answers.
Air Disasters
S18, EP13 "Blow Out"A cockpit window on British Airways Flight blows out, partially ejecting and injuring the captain; the co-pilot completes an emergency landing.
Air Disasters
S18, EP23 "Fatal Flaw"A look at several air disasters that involved small components that failed; accidents caused by minor defects or errors; how the follow-up investigations led to changes that have made flying safer.