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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
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
S11, EP1 "Explosive Proof"The inside story of one of history's most infamous and complex investigations: the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800.
Air Disasters
S19, EP8 "Deadly Deception"When a Bulgarian airliner is taken over by violent hijackers, the crew and authorities on the ground devise a daring plan to save the airliner.
Air Disasters
S6, EP3 "Fight for Your Life"Three FedEx employees must regain control of their plane when a coworker attacks them in midair.
Air Disasters
S6, EP2 "Bomb on Board"A 1994 terrorist bombing aboard Philippine Airlines Flight 434 forces its pilots into a daring emergency landing.
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S6, EP10 "Ocean Landing"Pilots aboard a hijacked plane are forced to attempt an emergency landing at sea.
Air Disasters
S16, EP8 "Caught in a Jam"When a commuter turboprop crashes onto hilly terrain in New Zealand, the search for answers inevitably leads to the cockpit.
Air Disasters
S5, EP2 "Speed Trap"A deadly midair collision between a commercial airliner and a F-4 Phantom reveals a lack of communication.
Air Disasters
S18, EP8 "Racing the Storm"An MD-82 crash lands in Arkansas during a severe thunderstorm, but investigators believe weather was not the main reason for the accident.
Extreme Airport Africa
S1, EP1 "Rhino Run"A rookie pilot flies passengers for the first time, airport staff battle to prevent bird strikes, a helicopter carries a heavy load over Johannesburg, and Africa's most skilled helicopter pilots fly low to protect rhinos from poachers.
Extreme Airport Africa
S1, EP2 "Racing The Sun"A mysterious engine fault delays a new airliner; scientists fly into the bush to hunt a killer disease; a broken-down plane closes a major runway, and a snake hunt across the airport ends in a face-off with a spitting cobra.
Air Disasters
S18, EP18 "Missing Over New York"Avianca Flight 52 is delayed numerous times by bad weather en route and is dangerously low on fuel as it attempts a landing at New York City.
Air Disasters
S7, EP6 "Panic Over the Pacific"A miraculous rescue is launched after a 747 plummets toward the Pacific.
Air Disasters
S10, EP2 "The Pentagon Attack"The FBI and NTSB join forces to determine how terrorists hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 and flew it into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.
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