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Air Disasters
S9, EP6 "Carnage in Sao Paolo"TAM flight 402 slammed into a residential neighborhood and burst into flames, just seconds after lifting off from Congonhas airport in São Paulo, Brazil, killing all 95 people on board and three people on the ground.
Air Disasters
S17, EP2 "Peril Over Portugal"On December 21, 1992, Martinair Flight 495 crashes off the right side of the runway while attempting to land at Faro Airport in Faro, Portugal, in severe weather conditions, killing 56 of the 340 people on board.
Air Disasters
S8, EP11 "Malayasia 370: What Happened?"Leading aviation experts are confronted with a shocking theory as they investigate one of the greatest aviation mysteries of all time.
Air Disasters
S15, EP9 "Cockpit Killer"When an African airliner mysteriously crashes, Namibian investigators have to rule out a host of possible causes before reaching a conclusion.
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S3, EP5 "Turning Point"A Northwest Airlines flight cruises above the Bering Sea before problems develop and pilots must make an emergency landing in Anchorage.
Air Disasters
S2, EP10 "Cleared for Disaster"An air traffic controller's mistake causes a Boeing 737 to land on a runway already occupied by another aircraft.
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S20, EP5 "Fuel Trouble"History's most terrifying air disasters, and the investigations that followed, are revisited and reexamined.
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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.
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S13, EP7 "Runway Runoff"A passenger plane veers off the runway in Denver sparking an investigation into the airport's proximity to the Rocky Mountains.
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S3, EP4 "Impossible Landing"A look at the fate of United Airlines Flight 232 which crashed into Sioux City's runway in 1989; it caused a subsequent explosion that left 111 people dead.
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S18, EP11 "Cutting Corners"The 2000 crash of an Alaska Airlines plane just off the California coast leads to a disturbing discovery about the company's cost-cutting procedures.
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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.
Air Disasters
S8, EP8 "Accident or Assassination"A plane carrying Mexico's interior minister crashes into Mexico City's financial district.
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S11, EP5 "Lethal Turn"Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 crashes into mountainous woodlands while trying to land at Polonia International Airport in Medan, North Sumatra, in low visibility.
Air Disasters
S11, EP6 "Storming Out"On its final approach to Charlotte, N.C., US Air Flight 1016 is engulfed in intense rain obstructing the view from the cockpit; the pilots abort the landing, but the aircraft crashes to earth, hurtling along a road and breaking apart.
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S20, EP27 "Runway Collisions"Three catastrophic runway collisions raise the same pressing question; a look at how two planes end up on the same runway at the same time.
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