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Episode list

Air Crash Investigation
Gimli Glider
Tue, May 13, 2008
  • S5.E3
  • Gimli Glider
Relive the incredible story of a pilot forced to glide an engineless 767 to safety, from over 26,000 feet in the air.
8.9 /10
Behind Closed Doors
Tue, Apr 15, 2008
  • S5.E2
  • Behind Closed Doors
It's one of the most alarming disasters in the history of aviation, not just because of the crash, but why it happened.
8.2 /10
Fatal Distraction
Tue, May 27, 2008
  • S5.E9
  • Fatal Distraction
The Eastern Airlines flight 401 crash: the deadliest disaster in U.S. civil aviation history.
8.1 /10
Invisible Killer

S5.E1 ∙ Invisible Killer

Tue, May 06, 2008
It's called a microburst, but the havoc it wreaked on Delta Airlines Flight 191 was anything but minuscule.
7.8 /10
Behind Closed Doors

S5.E2 ∙ Behind Closed Doors

Tue, Apr 15, 2008
It's one of the most alarming disasters in the history of aviation, not just because of the crash, but why it happened.
8.2 /10
Gimli Glider

S5.E3 ∙ Gimli Glider

Tue, May 13, 2008
Relive the incredible story of a pilot forced to glide an engineless 767 to safety, from over 26,000 feet in the air.
8.9 /10
Dead Weight

S5.E4 ∙ Dead Weight

Tue, Apr 29, 2008
See how two unrelated failures combined to create a fatal catastrophe, and changed the history of small plane travel.
7.8 /10
Fanning the Flames

S5.E5 ∙ Fanning the Flames

Tue, May 20, 2008
To find the cause of the crash of Flight 295, they had to dig deep...3 miles deep to the floor of the Indian Ocean.
7.6 /10
Southern Storm

S5.E6 ∙ Southern Storm

Tue, Apr 22, 2008
Torrential rain. Baseball-sized hail. Why did Flight 242 enter this severe storm, and what caused its engines to fail?
7.7 /10
Explosive Evidence

S5.E7 ∙ Explosive Evidence

Tue, Apr 08, 2008
A terrorist's bomb blew up Air India Flight 182, but the biggest crime was that it all could have been prevented.
7.9 /10
Mixed Signals

S5.E8 ∙ Mixed Signals

Tue, Jun 03, 2008
There are many factors affecting an aircraft in flight. Any one of them can bring the plane down. But as the investigation reveals yet again, the most common one is the human factor.
7.9 /10
Fatal Distraction

S5.E9 ∙ Fatal Distraction

Tue, May 27, 2008
The Eastern Airlines flight 401 crash: the deadliest disaster in U.S. civil aviation history.
8.1 /10
Phantom Strike

S5.E10 ∙ Phantom Strike

Tue, Jun 10, 2008
A business jet on a delivery flight from Brazil to the US is shaken by a massive hit over the Amazon rainforest. The pilots manage to land the damaged aircraft, but they soon find out that they had a mid-air collision with a passenger jet.
7.9 /10
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