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Ice Airport Alaska
S1, EP5 "Relentless Winter"Record snowfall and vicious headwinds threaten the runways and a seaplane pilot.
Ice Airport Alaska
S7, EP1 "Fuel's Gold"Father-son aviators battle turbulence to refuel a remote mine, bush pilots fight an aerial jam to reach Alaska's biggest sled race, and the Coastguard turn a C-130 into a bomber to drop supplies on an isolated beach.
Ice Airport Alaska
S7, EP2 "Bear Knuckle Flight"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; CBP officers investigate suspicious cargo.
Air Disasters
S1, EP6 "Southern Storm"Pilots of Southern Airways Flight 242 must try to land on a Georgia highway after the engines die and the windshield shatters.
Air Disasters
S2, EP1 "Cracks in the System"Chalk's Ocean Airways flight 101 crashes just after take-off from Watson Island in Miami on December 19, 2005, killing 20 people.
Air Disasters
S17, EP2 "Peril Over Portugal"On December 21, 1992, Martinair Flight 495 crashes off the right side of the runway while attempting to land at Faro Airport in Faro, Portugal, in severe weather conditions, killing 56 of the 340 people on board.
Air Disasters
S16, EP7 "Mission Disaster"After losing two engines near enemy territory, U.S. Air Force pilots abort their refueling mission and try to land their damaged plane.
Air Disasters
S23, EP5 "Training Ignored"Kobe Bryant dies when a high-tech helicopter crashes on a routine L.A. route-training ignored with deadly results; in Missouri, cockpit chatter dooms Corporate 5966; in Lexington, a twin-engine jet crashes after taking off from the wrong runway.
