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Statistically, traveling by airplane is safer than driving and other forms of transportation, but when something goes wrong during a flight, it can be catastrophic with potentially hundreds of lives at stake. This series examines some of the world's worst air disasters, using official reports, transcripts and interviews with people involved to tell the stories of midair mishaps and discover what went wrong in each case. Episodes include a discussion of how the weather affects flights -- including stories of aviation disasters and near-misses -- and a New Year's Eve flight that fell from the sky into the Florida Everglades.
S21, EP3 "Blown Apart"
Partnair Flight 394 loses control, breaks up in midair and crashes into the North Sea; the aircraft's vertical stabilizer vibrates loose during flight due to excessive wear on substandard bolts, sleeves and pins that have been illegally sold.
S8, EP10 "Death in the Arctic"
On 20 August 2011, First Air Flight 6560, a charter flight, crashes near its destination of Resolute Bay Airport, Resolute, Nunavut, Canada, in poor weather conditions; out of the fifteen passengers and crew members, only three survived.
S18, EP24 "Who's Flying the Plane?"
A look at accidents and incidents where problems with the interface between crew members and onboard avionics are a factor, and the causes of those problems.
S20, EP17 "Death From Above"
Midair tragedies are particularly horrifying when they occur over a community, and rain terror on the people below.
S24, EP5 "Eleven Deadly Seconds"
Solving the crash of China Airlines Flight 676 hinges on 11 baffling seconds when neither pilot controls the airplane.
S24, EP4 "Without Warning"
Two float planes collide midair near an Alaskan waterfall. One shatters; the other crash-lands intact. With no warning before impact, investigators use wreckage clues and 3D tech to uncover how-and why-the deadly crash occurred.
S24, EP3 "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.
S24, EP2 "Disaster At Dutch Harbor"
While landing at a notoriously tricky Alaskan island airport, the pilots of a twin turboprop can't stop their plane.
