
In Southern California, crews rebuild after the 2025 wildfires, cutting firebreaks, repairing emergency water systems, hardening roads and power lines, and building fire-resistant homes before the next firestorm.
In the Alps of Switzerland, Mike helps an elite team install a new cable (rope) system on an iconic mountain gondola line, helps fix the world's steepest cogwheel railway track and explores mountaintop family farms only accessible.
Fish and Wildlife aviators battle Arctic conditions to track down a polar bear population, a bush pilot races fading daylight to save a business, Anchorage field crews battle to clear an icy runway, and CBP officers investigate.
When a commuter turboprop plane crashes at an Irish airport, investigators uncover a startling gap in aviation safety.
On 9 August 2007, Air Moorea Flight 1121 crashed shortly after taking off from Moorea Airport in French Polynesia, killing all 19 passengers and the pilot.
A surface-to-air missile cripples a cargo plane after it takes off from Baghdad International Airport.
Bad weather and a series of errors lead to the 2001 crash of a plane on its approach to Zurich Airport.
Saudi Airways and Kazakhstan Airlines jets hit each other at 14,000 feet sending both planes spiraling to the ground.