
Catastrophic incidents in aviation history are meticulously re-enacted, providing insight into what went wrong and if the crashes and near-disasters could have been prevented; accounts from survivors combine with cockpit recordings and computer images to weave the gripping tales and expert testimony reveals the hows and whys behind the events, some of which have resulted in important changes to aviation safety and regulations.

An Air Inter flight crashes into the Vosges Mountains while attempting to land, killing most of the 96 passengers.

Chalk's Ocean Airways flight 101 crashes just after take-off from Watson Island in Miami on Dec. 19, 2005, killing 20 people.

Minutes before they're scheduled to land in Zurich, the pilots of a routine passenger flight can't find the runway; they abort and power up the engines in order to climb, but they are too late.

British Airways' flight number 38 suffers from double engine failure and crashes near Heathrow in 2008.