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Air Disasters
S4, EP12 "Seconds to Survive"On 21 February 2008, Santa Bárbara Airlines Flight 518 strays off course and flies into the side of a mountain shortly after takeoff.
Air Disasters
S11, EP5 "Lethal Turn"Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 crashes into mountainous woodlands while trying to land at Polonia International Airport in Medan, North Sumatra, in low visibility.
Air Disasters
S3, EP4 "Impossible Landing"A look at the fate of United Airlines Flight 232 which crashed into Sioux City's runway in 1989; it caused a subsequent explosion that left 111 people dead.
How Did They Build That?
S4, EP9 "Super Stadiums & Extraordinary Elevators"Examine the sightlines in Los Angeles's SoFi Stadium, which sits right in the flight path of LAX; celebrate the ingenuity of the inexperienced crew that built a monumental skyscraper in Malta; visit a forest tower designed for testing elevators.
How Did They Build That?
S4, EP2 "Medals & Marinas"Paying tribute to the brave, gravity-defying design of the U.S. National Medal of Honor Museum; traveling to Singapore for a look at a leaning tower of gambling, then exploring a New York City office building that lets the sun shine through.
How Did They Build That?
S4, EP4 "High Waters & Harsh Winds"Defy gravity in an Amsterdam high-rise that hangs 164 feet above the water; marvel at three interconnected towers in Chicago that have a road running through them; examine the revolutionary framework of Paris' controversial Pompidou Centre.
How Did They Build That?
S4, EP3 "Speedcore & Steambend"Peek inside a cloud-inspired library in Canada that's built over a live railway; see how clever engineering helped a huge Seattle skyscraper go up without harming its iconic neighbour, then cross an Australian bridge that floats above a busy river.
How Did They Build That?
S5, EP1 "Reborn Buildings & Sacred Grounds"In Oklahoma, a sacred spiral mound rises on a former oilfield, honouring 39 tribes. London's crumbling Battersea Power Station is reborn with two million new bricks. And in Spain, Frank Gehry crowns a historic winery.
Air Disasters
S20, EP4 "Engines Out"When an aircraft loses total engine power, a pilot's training can make all the difference in the world, but it's still up to investigators to determine what went wrong.
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
S21, EP4 "Sight Unseen"Saudi Airways and Kazakhstan Airlines jets hit each other at 14,000 feet sending both planes spiraling to the ground.
Air Disasters
S9, EP2 "Terror in San Francisco"The 2013 crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 in San Francisco shocks the nation.
Air Crash Investigation
S25, EP3 "Power Struggle"In Indonesia, a Boeing 737 spirals out of the sky and nosedives into the Java Sea.