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Air Disasters
S10, EP4 "Deadly Detail"After a seemingly routine landing, a Boeing 737 erupts in flames, putting 165 debarking passengers and crew in jeopardy.
How Did They Fix That?
S2, EP6 "Snowbird Ski Resort"Mike Davidson embarks with the team to one of the most extreme, avalanche-prone ski mountains in the world: Snowbird; they battle to keep the steep and deep slopes safe with shovels, snowcats and even a WWII Howitzer.
How Did They Fix That?
S3, EP8 "Extreme Heights: Rope Access Repairs"Mike pushes himself to the limit to work with an elite team of high ropes techs on fixes hundreds of feet in the air; starting 45 stories up on the side of a skyscraper, then working and dangling on the edge.
How Did They Fix That?
S2, EP8 "Philadelphia Transit"In Philadelphia, Mike is on streets, in tunnels, on tracks and in trolley restoration garages; he is working shoulder-to-shoulder with the team that keeps one of America's largest and oldest mass transit systems running smoothly and on time.
How Did They Fix That?
S3, EP4 "Water Bombers: Fixing Aerial Firefighters"With wildfire season ahead, Mike works with an aerial firefighting company as they fix and convert aircraft into firefighting machines, including the transformation of a 1960's C130 plane from aged military aircraft into a stateofthe art waterbomber.
How Did They Fix That?
S5, EP3 "Iter"At ITER in southern France, teams move massive reactor components, repair a leaking cryostat and test giant robotic arms as they build the world's largest fusion experiment with extraordinary precision.
How Did They Fix That?
S2, EP2 "Deep Space Telescope"Host Mike Davidson goes to the remote Atacama Desert in Chile; at observatory ALMA he works alongside the expert team as they repair some of the world's biggest antennas.
Ice Airport Alaska
S7, EP4 "Live and Let Fly"A lone bush pilot races to stock ultra-marathon checkpoints; a heli pilot risks a sling-load at 4,000 feet and comes inches from disaster; a vintage DC-3 plane is a village's only lifeline as a storm closes in.
