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Air Crash Investigation
Air Crash Investigation investigates recent air disasters to uncover how and why they happened. It takes viewers on bard six...
Murder in the Skies
On 24 March 2015, suicidal co-pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately locked his Captain out of the cockpit and initiated a...
Grounded: Boeing Max 8
Indonesian investigators must determine why a Boeing 737 Max8-one of the best-selling new airplanes on Earth-plunged into the...
Stealth Bomber Down
When a two-billion-dollar Stealth Bomber crashes in Guam, it’s up to the US Air Force to investigate the most expensive...
Explosive Touchdown
After a routine landing, a Taiwanese commuter plane is rocked by a massive explosion. The resulting inferno destroys the...
Cockpit Killer
LAM Mozambique Airlines Flight 470 is headed for Luanda, Angola, when it disappears from radar. Rangers in a remote Namibian...
Pacific Plunge
When Alaska Airlines Flight 261 suddenly nosedives into the Pacific, investigators uncover a critical maintenance issue with...
Stormy Cockpit
Taking off during a major storm, a brand-new 737 falls from the sky over West Africa, and an international group of...
Caught In A Jam
On final approach through thick clouds, a commuter turboprop in New Zealand slams into hilly terrain. Rescuers struggle to...
Tree Strike Terror
Facing a severe thunderstorm and a control tower shutdown, American Airlines 1572 suffers double-engine failure on final...
Last Days of The Battleship
Survivors' stories and world-leading shipwreck investigators uncover how the most powerful warships in history had their...
Tornado Outbreak
The tornado super outbreak in April 2011 is unprecedented; over just 4 days, 360 tornadoes leave a trail of devastation as...
Taxiway Turmoil
Blanketed by confusion and heavy fog, a DC-9 ends up at the wrong end of an active runway in Detroit, and directly in the path...
Meltdown Over Kathmandu
Landing at one of the world's most challenging airports, a passenger plane comes in like a fighter jet, skids off the runway,...
Terror Over Michigan
After a Boeing 727’s near-fatal nosedive over Michigan, investigators risk their own lives to determine why TWA Flight 841...
Failed Invasions
The stories of two of the greatest failed invasions in the history of naval warfare. In 1588 King Philip II of Spain assembled...
Toxic Wrecks
Thousands of WW2 wrecks lay dormant in the world’s waters. 75 years later, the relentless power of the ocean has eroded...
Volcanoes
A sudden calamitous event, causing great loss of life, damage, or hardship, like a flood, a tornado, an airplane crash, or an...
Explosive Proof
Just minutes after taking off from New York's JFK Airport, TWA Flight 800 is ripped apart by a massive explosion. With a...
Lethal Turn
Amid thick smoke from a forest fire, Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 approached the airport on the island of Sumatra. But just...