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Murder in the Skies
On 24 March 2015, suicidal co-pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately locked his Captain out of the cockpit and initiated a...
Last Days of The Battleship
Survivors' stories and world-leading shipwreck investigators uncover how the most powerful warships in history had their...
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...
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Air Crash Investigation
Revealing the dark truth that aviation safety improves one crash at a time, Air Crash Investigation investigates legendary...
Storming Out
When USAir Flight 1016 fell out of the sky above North Carolina during a storm most passengers on board perished. Somehow both...
Mixed Signals
Careening into a mountaintop just minutes from the runway, an American charter flight becomes the worst aviation disaster in...
Delivery to Disaster
An Amazon cargo plane nosedives into a swamp outside Houston, the evidence eventually leads investigators to a pilot with a...
Seconds From Disaster
Stormy Cockpit
Taking off during a major storm, a brand-new 737 falls from the sky over West Africa, and an international group of...
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...
Chilean Mine Rescue
A mine collapses in Chile trapping 33 miners almost half a mile underground. Their rescue becomes a desperate race against the...
Portugal Hellfire
The story of the largest wildfire in Portugal's history and how it devastated a rural community. As fire fighters tried to...
Kathmandu Descent
A Pakistani airliner crashes in the Himalayas. And when their most vital piece of evidence fails to deliver, investigators...
North Sea Nightmare
En route to the Shetland Islands, a high-tech turboprop is struck by lightning, temporarily blinding the crew and disabling...
Mission Disaster
On a refuelling mission during the Gulf War, a US Air Force tanker plane loses two engines. The crew struggles to fly their...
Peril over Portugal
A Martinair flight crashes in Portugal amid thunderstorms and heavy rain, and when investigators piece together the evidence...
Pacific Plunge
When Alaska Airlines Flight 261 suddenly nosedives into the Pacific, investigators uncover a critical maintenance issue with...
Deadly Exchange
Corporate Airlines 5966 crashes mysteriously in Missouri, but investigators uncover a conversation in the cockpit that set the...
Control Catastrophe
A Kazakh crew manage to land an uncontrollable aircraft and investigators must determine how a freshly-serviced plane was...