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Air Disasters

S17, EP5 "Pacific Plunge"

Fifteen minutes after taking off from Puerto Vallarta for San Francisco, the pilots of an MD-83 realize something is very wrong with their plane.

Air Disasters

S20, EP3 "Collision Course"

A passenger ferry sinks after crashing into rocks off the coast of a Greek island, killing 82; it leads to a shocking investigation.

Air Disasters

S2, EP403 "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

S10, EP1 "Deadly Silence"

Investigators try to figure out why a private Learjet carrying Payne Stewart went rogue before crashing in a South Dakota hayfield.

Air Disasters

S9, EP1 "Fatal Transmission"

A runway collision at a small airport turns tragic when passengers cannot escape the burning aircraft.

Air Disasters

S20, EP20 "Take Off Tragedies"

Three flights ending in tragedy, prove that minor missteps during takeoff can have disastrous consequences.

Air Disasters

S18, EP17 "Lost"

Investigators struggle to determine why a 757 strayed off course during its final approach to a Colombia airport and crashed into a mountain.

Air Disasters

S19, EP5 "Control Catastrophe"

Experts investigate an unfortunate string of events that caused the freshly serviced Air Astana Flight 1388 to become completely uncontrollable.

Air Crash Investigation

S24, EP8 "Under Fire"

Experts investigate the Saudia Flight 163 tragedy, which killed 287 passengers and 14 crew members following an in-flight fire.

Air Disasters

S21, EP2 "Lockerbie Disaster"

A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 103, causing the aircraft to disintegrate in mid-air and the wreckage of the aircraft to crash into the Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing all 259 people on board and 11 people on the ground.

Air Crash Investigation Special Report

S6, EP5 "Training Ignored"

Investigators hunt for answers when the pilots of three aircraft skip protocols, ignore their training and crash.

Air Disasters

S19, EP3 "Pressure Point"

Investigators race to determine the cause of the deadliest single aircraft accident in history: the 1985 crash of Japan Airlines 123, which claimed 520 lives.

Air Disasters

S19, EP6 "Cockpit Catastrophe"

The cockpit window of an Airbus A319 explodes; pilots miraculously land the out-of-control plane; investigators must determine how the freshly serviced aircraft was released with a fatal flaw.

Air Disasters

S15, EP8 "No Warning"

Investigators must figure out why the safety systems of a turboprop plane failed to prevent a crash into an Indonesian mountain.

Air Disasters

S14, EP6 "Killer in the Cockpit?"

A look at the commercial flights that ended in disaster because of suspected murder-suicide.

Air Disasters

S12, EP4 "Deadly Airspace"

When a commercial airliner goes down in eastern Ukraine in 2014, examiners must conduct an investigation in the middle of a war zone.

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