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Air Disasters
S16, EP9 "Seconds From Touchdown"Facing a cascade of failures and a fire on board, a turboprop is just seconds from landing when it flips over and crashes.
Air Disasters
S4, EP6 "Grand Canyon"United Airlines Flight 718 and Trans World Airlines Flight 2 collide midair over the Grand Canyon in Arizona, killing all 128 people on both aircraft in 1956.
Air Disasters
S4, EP13 "Vanished"On 1 June 2009, Air France Flight 447 stalls and crashes into the Atlantic Ocean while flying through a thunderstorm, killing all 228 people on board.
Air Disasters
S6, EP1 "Mistaken Identity"The captain of a Navy cruiser must quickly determine if an approaching plane is friendly.
Air Disasters
S22, EP2 "Time Critical"In a rush to complete their flights, three different flight crews skip key procedures, ignore signs of danger and make deadly decisions.
How Did They Fix That?
S3, EP5 "Fixing For A Fight: U.S. Army Mega Repair Base"Mike works with the U.S. Army in Germany inside the massive fix facility the MAK, Maintenance Activity Kaiserslautern, as teams repair over one hundred Bradley fighting vehicles, then embeds with troops in a massive two-week-long battle exercise.
How Did They Fix That?
S4, EP1 "Monster Jam"At Monster Jam, custom-built monster trucks roll, flip and fly through the air; with the metal-bending beating these trucks endure, teams of specialized mechanics race against the clock to repair these engineering marvels in time for the next event.
How Did They Fix That?
S3, EP7 "US Navy Hovercraft Overhaul"Mike joins the Assault Craft Unit 5, the U.S. Navy's team for Landing Craft Air Cushions (LCACs); LCACs carry heavy vehicles and troops onto beaches; Mike helps fly & fix an overhauled LCAC during a U.S. Marines beach assault training mission.
