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Ice Airport Alaska
S5, EP7 "The Big Chill"A DC-6 flies into fuel-freezing weather to deliver vital medicine. A rookie Coast Guard rescue swimmer faces his final helicopter test.
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
S2, EP9 "The Final Blow"An Air Inter flight crashes into the Vosges Mountains while attempting to land killing most of the 96 passengers.
Air Disasters
S6, EP4 "Out of Control"A simple error years prior causes the deadliest single-plane crash in history.
Air Disasters
S3, EP8 "The Invisible Plane"SAS Flight 686 takes off from Milan's Linate Airport and moments later collides with a Cessna on the runway.
Air Disasters
S4, EP1 "Fight for Control"A propeller breaks off and rips a hole in the fuselage of an aircraft en route from Alaska to Washington 19,000 feet over the Pacific Ocean.
Air Disasters
S6, EP6 "Hanging by a Thread"The roof of an Aloha Airlines 737 tears off the plane at 24,000 feet in the sky.
Air Disasters
S20, EP5 "Fuel Trouble"History's most terrifying air disasters, and the investigations that followed, are revisited and reexamined.
How Did They Build That?
S2, EP8 "Breakthroughs & Bridges"Visiting London's Gherkin, Seattle's Evergreen Point Floating Bridge and Lyon's Musée des Confluences to uncover how and why they were built.
How Did They Build That?
S3, EP2 "Jungles & Bricks"Witness amazing buildings, bridges, lifts, and other structures that pushed structural concrete engineering to the edge.
How Did They Build That?
S1, EP8 "Arctic Modules & Auditoria"The engineering secrets behind a mobile research station in Antarctica, a gravity-defying concert hall on the Canary Islands, and a rotating boat lift in Scotland.
How Did They Build That?
S3, EP7 "Floating & Lifting"Architects and engineers build an eco-friendly convention center on Vancouver's waterfront, a lift bridge in Bordeaux and a cocoon-shaped skyscraper in Tokyo each with unique challenges like marine habitats and massive spans.
How Did They Build That?
S2, EP6 "Upside Down & Under Sea"Visiting the Vancouver House, Norway's Under restaurant and the Seattle Central Library to discover how these visionary buildings were created.
How Did They Build That?
S1, EP6 "Arches & Opera Houses"The inside stories behind a new, horseshoe-shaped complex in Rotterdam, a rock-shaped opera house in China and a makeover of the British Museum.
How Did They Build That?
S3, EP1 "Fantastic & Futuristic"Challenges beset a sculptural new transportation hub for New York's World Trade Center; Amsterdam gains a building inspired by a mountain valley; a new launchpad for space travel prepares for liftoff in the New Mexico desert.
Air Disasters
S16, EP10 "Deadly Delivery"UPS Airlines Flight 1354 clips the tops of trees and crashes into a hillside about one nautical mile short of the runway during final approach to Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport in Alabama.