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Crowning New York

Crowning New York

The planning and building of One World Trade Center.

How Did They Build That?

S3, EP1 "Fantastic & Futuristic"

Challenges beset a sculptural new transportation hub for New York's World Trade Center; Amsterdam gains a building inspired by a mountain valley; a new launchpad for space travel prepares for liftoff in the New Mexico desert.

How Did They Build That?

S2, EP3 "Retrofits & Airport Glitz"

Visiting the Hearst Tower in Manhattan and Jewel Changi Airport in Singapore to understand how they were built; covering how designers and engineers attempt to create a museum worthy of Salvador Dalí in Florida.

How Did They Build That?

S1, EP1 "Cantilevers & Lifts"

An unstable high rise, an otherworldly museum, and a towering cliffside elevator.

How Did They Fix That?

S3, EP3 "Cirque Du Soleil: High-Flying Fixes"

At Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas, Mike embeds with the talented teams that maintain the amazing machines behind Cirque du Soleil's stage shows.

How Did They Build That?

S2, EP1 "Riverparks & Artworks"

Traveling to New York, Denver and Nice, France to visit Little Island, the Denver Museum of Art and La Tête Carrée; the secrets to how they were built are revealed.

How Did They Build That?

S1, EP7 "Sky Gardens & Seismic Stations"

The engineering secrets behind a massive sky garden in Singapore, the world's most slender tower in Brighton, and a railway station in the shadow of Vesuvius.

How Did They Fix That?

S2, EP7 "UPS Worldport"

Mike Davidson goes to the biggest automated package sorting facility in the world, UPS Worldport in Louisville, Kentucky; two million packages go through here every day.

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.

Air Disasters

S11, EP2 "Killer Attitude"

The pairing of a domineering pilot and an inexperienced first officer has deadly consequences in northern Minnesota.

Air Disasters

S7, EP7 "Out of Sight"

In one of the world's busiest airports, a large passenger plane crashes into a smaller one; a 1986 midair crash between planes near Los Angeles brings attention to disturbing congestion at airports.

Air Disasters

S1, EP10 "Phantom Strike"

In September 2006, a brand-new legacy business jet collides with a Boeing 737 over the Amazon forest.

Air Disasters

S18, EP22 "Ripped Apart"

Design innovations evolve as a result of terrible air disasters due to pressurization failure or explosive decompression.

Air Disasters

S11, EP3 "Deadly Myth"

The crash of a commuter flight to Detroit leads investigators to a cause the industry has known about for years.

Air Disasters

S9, EP9 "Edge of Disaster"

Atlantic Airways Flight 670 careened off the runway and became engulfed in flames.

Air Disasters

S20, EP18 "Courage in the Cockpit"

Devastating failures in the air put pilots to the test and shine a light on three feats of flying.

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