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Runway Runoff
After Continental Airlines Flight 1404 careens off the runway and crashes in flames, investigators are left to determine what...
Slam Dunk
When United Express Flight 6291 crashed on final approach just a mile from the runway investigators were left with just...
Atlantic Ditching
A state-of-the-art helicopter carrying oil workers to a drilling platform crashes into the ocean off the coast of...
North Sea Nightmare
En route to the Shetland Islands, a high-tech turboprop is struck by lightning, temporarily blinding the crew and disabling...
Cabin Catastrophe
A mid-air explosion rocks Southwest Airlines 1380. While pilots struggle to regain control, flight attendants make a...
Terror Over Michigan
After a Boeing 727’s near-fatal nosedive over Michigan, investigators risk their own lives to determine why TWA Flight 841...
Control Catastrophe
A Kazakh crew manage to land an uncontrollable aircraft and investigators must determine how a freshly-serviced plane was...
Weather Stunt: Hunting Cat
Hurricanes, typhoons and major storms reach their maximum power at sea, and during that peak power thousands of marine workers...
Assassins of The Deep
We explore three different German U-Boat wrecks from the First and Second World War with marine archaeologist Dr Innes...
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...
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Tornado Outbreak
The tornado super outbreak in April 2011 is unprecedented; over just 4 days, 360 tornadoes leave a trail of devastation as...
Deadly Solution
On 28 December 2014 Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 departed Indonesia for Singapore with 162 people on board. An hour later,...
Blown Away
After circling above the Taiwan Strait to wait out a passing cyclone, TransAsia Flight 222 crashes on the Taiwanese resort...
Nuts And Bolts
It will take more digging and hard evidence to understand what doomed the crew of Emery Worldwide Flight 17.
Fatal Climb
Tarom Flight 371 leaves Bucharest, veers off course and nosedives into a field. Can the FBI determine if this was an accident...
Lethal Limits
When a Aeroflot Nord Flight 821 crashes onto the trans-Siberian railway, those investigating make a series of shocking...
Impossible Pitch
A cargo jet plummets to earth in the Swedish Arctic. And as investigators pore over the evidence, a terrifying picture of...
Stormy Cockpit
Taking off during a major storm, a brand-new 737 falls from the sky over West Africa, and an international group of...
Playing Catch Up
A private jet shuttling business passengers to Akron, Ohio slams into an apartment building less than two miles from the...