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Air Crash Investigation
S25, EP7 "Deadly Climb"In 1985, a DC-9 airliner crashes seconds after takeoff from Milwaukee.
Air Disasters
S24, EP2 "Disaster At Dutch Harbor"While landing at a notoriously tricky Alaskan island airport, the pilots of a twin turboprop can't stop their plane.
Air Disasters
S24, EP3 "Deadly Departure"After a DC-8 cargo plane with only three working engines crashes on takeoff in Kansas City, investigators uncover a flaw in the pilots' training.
Air Disasters
S24, EP4 "Without Warning"Two float planes collide midair near an Alaskan waterfall. One shatters; the other crash-lands intact. With no warning before impact, investigators use wreckage clues and 3D tech to uncover how-and why-the deadly crash occurred.
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, EP10 "Deadly Directive"When Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashes shortly after takeoff, the catastrophe leads to the grounding of the entire Boeing 737 MAX 8 fleet.
Air Disasters
S25, EP1 "Pacific Ditching"Just after takeoff from Honolulu, TransAir Flight 810 loses power and ditches in the Pacific; both pilots survive, blaming dual engine failure-but when the Boeing 737 is recovered, the wreckage reveals a different cause.
Air Warriors
S6, EP3 "F-4 Phantom"The inside story of the F-4 Phantom, the U.S. military's go-to fighter for more than four decades.
Air Warriors
S7, EP2 "Top Choppers"The world's most versatile and powerful helicopters, including the Huey that served as a rescue helicopter in Vietnam, and the Apache attack helicopter.
Air Warriors
S9, EP6 "Galaxy"An inside look at the U.S. Air Force's largest aircraft, the C-5 Galaxy; its most dramatic combat and peacetime missions over the last 50 years.
Air Warriors
S6, EP5 "OV-10 Bronco"The Vietnam-era OV-10 Bronco is pulled out of retirement to join the fight against ISIS.
F6F Hellcat
The naval fighter designed to counter the Japanese Zero turns the tide of the war in the Pacific.
Air Warriors
S10, EP1 "F-14 Tomcat"The true story of the F-14 Tomcat, the military aircraft made famous in "Top Gun"; how it served as the US Navy's top carrier fighter for a generation.
Aerial America
S1, EP71 "Boston 24"A day-long aerial tour of the New England city of Boston in Massachusetts; where Americans first rebelled against Britain by dumping chests of tea into the harbor and where rock band Aerosmith first made it big.