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Air Disasters
S18, EP1 "Cockpit Failure"Bad weather and a series of errors lead to the 2001 crash of a plane on its approach to Zurich Airport.
Air Disasters
S10, EP10 "Afghan Nightmare"When a cargo plane crashes at a U.S. airfield in Afghanistan, investigators reach a conclusion that ultimately proves incorrect.
Air Disasters
S18, EP14 "A Wounded Bird"A blade on the left-side propeller of Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight breaks off; the imbalance of the rotating propeller causes the engine to partly tear itself from its mounting.
Air Disasters
S9, EP3 "High Rise Catastrophe"A large cargo jet slices into an apartment complex in Amsterdam and reveals a potentially lethal problem threatening every 747 in the sky.
Air Disasters
S20, EP6 "Perilous Payload"Three planes fatally out of balance force investigators to question every calculation; it's a flight risk that's entirely preventable, and yet repeated disasters reconfirm the need for critical backup systems.
Air Disasters
S13, EP6 "Fatal Climb"A commercial airliner crashes minutes after taking off from an airport in Bucharest causing suspicions to rise.
Air Disasters
S13, EP8 "Lethal Limits"An investigation into a jet crash from 2008 leads to a drastic change into the Russian aviation system.
Air Disasters
"Scratching the Surface"After taking off from Taiwan, a China Airlines 747 suddenly disappears from radar and crashes, killing 225 people.
Air Disasters
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.
Air Disasters
S5, EP1 "Fight to the Death"On 18 June 1972, British European Airways Flight 548 stalls and crashes in a field near Staines shortly after takeoff from London Heathrow Airport, killing all 118 people on board.
Air Disasters
S9, EP1 "Fatal Transmission"A runway collision at a small airport turns tragic when passengers cannot escape the burning aircraft.
Air Disasters
S6, EP2 "Attack Over Baghdad"A surface-to-air missile cripples a cargo plane after it takes off from Baghdad International Airport.
Air Disasters
S17, EP6 "Terror Over Michigan"After a Boeing 727's near-fatal nosedive over Michigan, investigators risk their own lives to determine what caused the aircraft to lose control.
Air Disasters
S5, EP10 "Terror in Paradise"On 9 August 2007, Air Moorea Flight 1121 crashes shortly after taking off from Moorea Airport in French Polynesia, killing all 19 passengers and the pilot.
Air Disasters
S20, EP30 "Northern Extremes"Faced with the extreme conditions of the far North, three flights fall out of the sky leaving investigators to uncover the cause.
Air Disasters
S1, EP9 "Fatal Distraction"Pilots of Eastern Airline Flight 401 try to determine why both landing-gear lights do not function, tragically distracting them.
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