Air Disasters

Monday, June 9

Lost

Season 18 • Episode 17

An American Airlines Flight en route to Cali, Colombia loses their exact position.

Monday, June 9

Deadly Pitch

Season 13 • Episode 5

An anonymous tip helps uncover the cause of a cargo plane crash in Miami.

Tuesday, June 10

Communication Breakdown

Season 14 • Episode 1

Misunderstandings between pilots and air traffic controllers cause deadly air disasters.

Tuesday, June 10

Caught in a Jam

Season 16 • Episode 8

When a commuter turboprop crashes onto hilly terrain in New Zealand, a search for answers ensues.

Tuesday, June 10

Speed Trap

Season 5 • Episode 2

A deadly midair collision between a commercial airliner and a F-4 Phantom.

Tuesday, June 10

Racing the Storm

Season 18 • Episode 8

A plane crashes during a thunderstorm, but investigators don't believe weather caused the crash.

Tuesday, June 10

Missing Over New York

Season 18 • Episode 18

Avianca Flight 52 is delayed numerous times is low on fuel as it attempts to land in New York City.

Tuesday, June 10

Frozen Wings

Season 20 • Episode 26

Investigators determine how modern aircraft could possibly end up with frozen wings.

Wednesday, June 11

Panic Over the Pacific

Season 7 • Episode 6

A miraculous rescue is launched after a 747 plummets toward the Pacific.

Wednesday, June 11

Vanishing Act

Season 8 • Episode 3

Varig Flight 254 disappears without a trace over the jungles of Brazil.

Wednesday, June 11

Massacre Over The Mediterranean

Season 5 • Episode 7

An Italian passenger plane is blown out of the sky.

Wednesday, June 11

Dangerous Approach

Season 10 • Episode 6

A Colorado commuter flight crashes five miles short of the runway.

Wednesday, June 11

Pitch Black

Season 17 • Episode 8

An Illinois turboprop crashes after losing battery power; investigators uncover a series of errors.

Wednesday, June 11

Meltdown Over Kathmandu

Season 16 • Episode 6

A passenger plane comes in like a fighter jet and crashes, killing 51 of the 71 people aboard.

Wednesday, June 11

Vertigo

Season 7 • Episode 9

An examination of the crash over the Red Sea in January 2004.

Thursday, June 12

Steep Impact

Season 9 • Episode 8

The crash of a commuter plane in Georgia killed a NASA astronaut and a four-term U.S. senator.

Thursday, June 12

Dead of Night

Season 20 • Episode 21

Three crews lose site of the horizon and fall into the same deadly trap.

Thursday, June 12

Mixed Signals

Season 1 • Episode 8

Conflicting alarms confuse pilots of Birgenair Flight 301 before it crashes into the ocean.

Thursday, June 12

Cold Case

Season 2 • Episode 6

A design flaw on the Fokker F28 causes two similar plane crashes in Ontario and New York.

Thursday, June 12

Target Is Destroyed

Season 2 • Episode 2

Korean Airlines Flight 007 is shot down by a fighter jet when it enters Soviet airspace.

Friday, June 13

Lapse in Security

Season 20 • Episode 14

Three horrific aviation disasters are all linked to breakdowns in vital security measures.

Friday, June 13

Killer in the Cockpit?

Season 14 • Episode 6

A look at commercial flights that ended in disaster because of suicidal pilots.

Friday, June 13

Blind Spot

Season 3 • Episode 1

In 1978, passengers and seven people on the ground die when a PSA flight crashed into a Cessna.

Saturday, June 14

Dead Weight

Season 1 • Episode 5

Just after take-off, Air Midwest Flight 5481 plummets to the ground, killing all on board.

Saturday, June 14

The Plane That Flew Too High

Season 2 • Episode 11

The West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crash ultimately leads to bankruptcy of the troubled airline.

Saturday, June 14

Hockey Team Tragedy

Season 4 • Episode 9

A Russian passenger jet crashes into the Volga River, killing almost everyone on board.

Saturday, June 14

Deadly Solution

Season 10 • Episode 9

A captain's decision leads to a deadly stall over the Java Sea.

Saturday, June 14

Pilot Betrayed

Season 18 • Episode 3

Following the story of the Scandinavian Airlines Flight 751 and Captain Rasmussen.

Saturday, June 14

Choosing Sides

Season 8 • Episode 1

A tragic misunderstanding is the real cause of the crash of British Midland Flight 92.

Sunday, June 15

Dream Flight Disaster

Season 19 • Episode 7

A British tycoon and his family die in a 2017 Australian seaplane crash.

Sunday, June 15

Pacific Plunge

Season 17 • Episode 5

The pilots of an MD-83 realize something is very wrong with their plane.

Sunday, June 15

Collision Course

Season 20 • Episode 3

A passenger ferry sinks after crashing into rocks off the coast of a Greek island, killing 82.

Sunday, June 15

Deadly Silence

Season 10 • Episode 1

A private Learjet goes rogue before crashing in a South Dakota hayfield.

Sunday, June 15

Head-On Collision

Season 18 • Episode 21

With its conductors sound asleep, a freight train fails to stop and collides with a passenger train.

Sunday, June 15

Accidents in the Air

Investigators dig deep into three mid-air collisions that seem to defy logic.

Monday, June 16

Deadly Airspace

Season 12 • Episode 4

When an airliner goes down in Ukraine, examiners must conduct an investigation in a war zone.

Monday, June 16

Pressure Point

Season 19 • Episode 3

Investigators race to determine the cause of the 1985 crash of Japan Airlines 123.

Monday, June 16

River Runway

Season 10 • Episode 8

Pilots attempt to land their Boeing 737 in an Indonesian river.

Monday, June 16

Blown Apart

Season 21 • Episode 3

In Sept. 1989, Partnair Flight 394 crashes into the sea, killing all 55 people on board.

Monday, June 16

Phantom Strike

Season 1 • Episode 10

A legacy business jet collides with a Boeing 737 in mid-air over the Amazon forest.

Monday, June 16

No Warning

Season 15 • Episode 8

Investigators must figure out why the safety systems of a turboprop plane failed to prevent a crash.

Monday, June 16

Maintenance Mistakes

Season 20 • Episode 19

When the nuts and bolts of maintenance go unchecked, it can spell catastrophe.

Monday, June 16

Kobe Bryant

Season 17 • Episode 10

Basketball legend Kobe Bryant is killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas.

Monday, June 16

Cockpit Failure

Season 18 • Episode 1

Bad weather and a series of errors lead to the crash of a plane on its approach to Zurich Airport.

Monday, June 16

Engines Out

Season 20 • Episode 4

An aircraft loses total engine power; investigators determine what went wrong.

Monday, June 16

Instrument Confusion

Season 20 • Episode 12

When critical instruments in the cockpit can't be trusted, the consequences can be fatal.

Monday, June 16

Deadly Exchange

Season 19 • Episode 1

A commuter flight crashes mysteriously and investigators examine the final seconds in the cockpit.

Monday, June 16

Ripped Apart

Season 18 • Episode 22

Some design innovations evolve as a result of terrible air disasters.

Monday, June 16

Impossible Pitch

Season 15 • Episode 2

Investigating why a cargo jet took a nosedive into the Swedish Arctic at speeds nearing 600 mph.

Monday, June 16

Deadly Deception

Season 19 • Episode 8

Violent hijackers take over a Bulgarian airliner; the authorities on the ground devise a plan.

Monday, June 16

Fight for Your Life

Season 6 • Episode 3

Three FedEx employees must regain control of their plane when a coworker attacks them in midair.

Monday, June 16

Bomb on Board

Season 6 • Episode 2

In 1994 on Philippine Airlines Flight 434, a terrorist bombing requires a daring emergency landing.

Monday, June 16

Ocean Landing

Season 6 • Episode 10

Pilots aboard a hijacked plane are forced to attempt an emergency landing at sea.

Monday, June 16

Terror in Paradise

Season 5 • Episode 10

A seven-minute island-hop from Moorea to Tahiti ends in disaster.

Tuesday, June 17

Attack Over Baghdad

Season 6 • Episode 5

A missile cripples a cargo plane after it takes off from Baghdad International Airport.

Tuesday, June 17

Fatal Transmission

Season 9 • Episode 1

A runway collision at a small airport turns tragic.

Tuesday, June 17

Take Off Tragedies

Season 20 • Episode 20

Three flights ending in tragedy, prove that minor missteps during takeoff can have consequences.

Tuesday, June 17

Lost

Season 18 • Episode 17

An American Airlines Flight en route to Cali, Colombia loses their exact position.

Tuesday, June 17

Control Catastrophe

Season 19 • Episode 5

Experts investigate a string of events that caused Air Astana Flight 1388 to become uncontrollable.

Tuesday, June 17

Cockpit Catastrophe

Season 19 • Episode 6

The cockpit window of an Airbus A319 explodes; pilots land the out-of-control plane.

Wednesday, June 18

Sight Unseen

Season 21 • Episode 4

Two jets hit each other at 14,000 feet sending both planes spiraling to the ground.

Wednesday, June 18

Terror in San Francisco

Season 9 • Episode 2

The 2013 crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 in San Francisco shocks the nation.

Wednesday, June 18

Caution to the Wind

Season 4 • Episode 3

As a typhoon approaches, a 747 crashes and burns before it even makes it off the tarmac.

Wednesday, June 18

Survivors

Season 20 • Episode 16

Wednesday, June 18

Invisible Killer

Season 1 • Episode 1

A strong gale slams Delta Airlines Flight 191 to the ground, killing most people on board.

Wednesday, June 18

Catastrophe at O'Hare

Season 4 • Episode 7

The 1979 crash in Chicago nearly grounded DC-10's forever.

Wednesday, June 18

Deadly Discussions

Season 11 • Episode 9

An error in the cockpit causes the crash of a 737 on takeoff and leaves an entire nation reeling.

Thursday, June 19

Fight for Control

Season 4 • Episode 1

The emergency landing of a Reeve Aleutian Airlines plane over the Pacific Ocean.

Thursday, June 19

Queens Catastrophe

Season 5 • Episode 5

A plane crash in New York just two months after 9/11.

Thursday, June 19

Carnage in Sao Paolo

Season 9 • Episode 6

TAM flight 402 slammed into a residential neighborhood and burst into flames.

Thursday, June 19

Peril Over Portugal

Season 17 • Episode 2

A plane crashes off the right side of the runway while attempting to land in Portugal.

Thursday, June 19

Mission Disaster

Season 16 • Episode 7

U.S. Air Force pilots abort their refueling mission and try to land their damaged plane.

Friday, June 20

Gimli Glider

Season 1 • Episode 2

A pilot heads for a decommissioned air force base when the 767 he is flying runs out of fuel.

Friday, June 20

Deadly Crossroads

Season 18 • Episode 16

A Bashkirian Airlines Flight collides with a DHL Flight in German airspace near Überlingen.

Friday, June 20

Operation Babylift

Season 21 • Episode 5

A United States Air Force transport aircraft suffers an explosive decompression.

Saturday, June 21

Falling Fast

Season 21 • Episode 6

Pilots must ditch their plane in the Mediterranean, killing 14 of the 34 passengers.

Saturday, June 21

Hero Pilots

Season 14 • Episode 3

Three flights headed for disaster are saved at the last moment by heroes in the cockpit.

Saturday, June 21

Stormy Cockpit

Season 15 • Episode 10

Pilots steer their plane clear of a storm, but are unable to regain control of a dangerous roll.

Saturday, June 21

Seconds to Survive

Season 4 • Episode 12

Santa Barbara Airlines Flight 518 disappears in the Andes Mountains.

Saturday, June 21

Death in the Arctic

Season 8 • Episode 10

An investigation of a charter plane that moves off course and goes down in Canada's far north.

Saturday, June 21

Who's Flying the Plane?

Season 18 • Episode 24

Aviation disasters that resulted from problems with autopilots and computerized systems.

Sunday, June 22

Death from Above

Season 20 • Episode 17

Sunday, June 22

Afghan Nightmare

Season 10 • Episode 10

Investigators study the crash of a cargo plane at a U.S. airfield in Afghanistan.

Sunday, June 22

A Wounded Bird

Season 18 • Episode 14

A blade on the left-side propeller of Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529 breaks off.

Sunday, June 22

No Clear Options

Season 8 • Episode 9

When a commuter turboprop plane crashes at an Irish airport, investigators uncover a startling gap.

Monday, June 23

Poor Piloting

The crews of three doomed aircraft make catastrophic blunders.

Monday, June 23

Northern Extremes

Season 20 • Episode 30

Faced with the extreme conditions of the far North, three flights fall out of the sky.

Monday, June 23

Grounded: Boeing Max 8

Season 16 • Episode 4

Indonesian investigators must determine why a Boeing 737 Max 8 plunged into the Java Sea.

Monday, June 23

Runway Collisions

Season 20 • Episode 27

Three catastrophic runway collisions raise the same pressing question.

Monday, June 23

Hudson River Runway

Season 18 • Episode 5

US Airways flight suffers a bird strike with a flock of Canada geese, causing both engines to fail.

Monday, June 23

Hanging by a Thread

Season 6 • Episode 6

The roof of an Aloha Airlines 737 tears off the plane at 24,000 feet in the sky.

Monday, June 23

Fight to the Death

Season 5 • Episode 1

A poisonous cockpit may have caused the 1972 crash of British European Airlines Flight 548.

Monday, June 23

Terror Over Michigan

Season 17 • Episode 6

After a Boeing 727's near-fatal nosedive over Michigan, investigators risk their own lives.

Monday, June 23

Explosive Proof

Season 11 • Episode 1

The inside story of the complex investigation into the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800.

Monday, June 23

Missed Approach

Season 7 • Episode 4

A plane crash lands in Guam after losing sight of the airport in a storm.

Monday, June 23

Who's In Control

Season 18 • Episode 6

Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 stalls and crashes less than a mile from the runway.

Monday, June 23

Deadly Space

Season 12 • Episode 6

The aircraft breaks apart and falls from the sky, killing the flight's co-pilot.

Monday, June 23

Disaster at Tenerife

Season 10 • Episode 3

Two 747s collide on the runway of a small airport in the Canary Islands.

Monday, June 23

Deadly Delivery

Season 16 • Episode 10

A plane crashes into a hillside about one nautical mile short of the runway during final approach.

Monday, June 23

Accident or Assassination

Season 8 • Episode 8

A plane carrying Mexico's interior minister crashes into Mexico City's financial district.

Monday, June 23

Lethal Turn

Season 11 • Episode 5

Forest fires and a series of human errors lead to the deadliest air disaster in Indonesian history.

Monday, June 23

Storming Out

Season 11 • Episode 6

US Air Flight 1016 is engulfed in intense rain obstructing the view from the cockpit.

Monday, June 23

The Invisible Plane

Season 3 • Episode 8

Moments after take-off, SAS Flight 686 collides with a Cessna on the runway.

Monday, June 23

Southern Storm

Season 1 • Episode 6

Pilots of Southern Airways Flight 242 must try to land on a Georgia highway after the engines die.

Monday, June 23

Cracks in the System

Season 2 • Episode 1

Chalk's Ocean Airways flight 101 crashes just after take-off from Watson Island in Miami.

Tuesday, June 24

The Final Blow

Season 2 • Episode 9

An Air Inter flight crashes into the Vosges Mountains while attempting to land.

Tuesday, June 24

Out of Control

Season 6 • Episode 4

A simple error years prior causes the deadliest single-plane crash in history.

Tuesday, June 24

Subtle Incapacitation

Season 4 • Episode 11

The 2010 crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 sparks rumors of terrorism.

Tuesday, June 24

Fatal Distraction

Season 1 • Episode 9

Pilots try to determine why both landing-gear lights do not function on an L-1011.

Tuesday, June 24

Deadly Inclination

Season 12 • Episode 8

An Alitalia airliner crashes into a forested hillside just a few miles from a Zurich runway.

Tuesday, June 24

Fatal Friction

Season 14 • Episode 2

Human flaws cause three plane crashes in England, Colorado and Minnesota.

Wednesday, June 25

Missing Pieces

Season 14 • Episode 7

Three air crash investigations in which examiners are pushed to the limit to crack the cases.

Wednesday, June 25

Missed Opportunities

Season 19 • Episode 2

Wednesday, June 25

Fire on Board

Season 18 • Episode 9

A Swissair passenger jet catches fire midflight and crashes into the Atlantic.

Wednesday, June 25

Kathmandu Descent

Season 15 • Episode 1

A challenging descent turns tragic when the pilots miscalculate their approach to an airport.

Wednesday, June 25

Mountain Impact

Season 20 • Episode 15

Uncovering fatal flaws in the operations designed to prevent aircraft from flying into mountains.

Wednesday, June 25

Soccer Tragedy

Season 13 • Episode 9

A plane carrying a Brazilian soccer team crashes just ten miles from the airport in 2016.

Wednesday, June 25

Runway Runoff

Season 13 • Episode 7

Investigators research an airport after a passenger plane veers off the runway.

Thursday, June 26

Impossible Landing

Season 3 • Episode 4

United Airlines Flight 232 crashes into Sioux City's runway in 1989.

Thursday, June 26

Cutting Corners

Season 18 • Episode 11

The 2000 crash of an Alaska Airlines plane just off the California coast.

Thursday, June 26

Fatal Flaw

Season 18 • Episode 23

Disasters that involved small components that failed; accidents caused by minor defects or errors.

Thursday, June 26

Deadly Distraction

Season 12 • Episode 3

A 1988 commercial flight crashes just moments after liftoff and erupts in flames.

Thursday, June 26

Deadly Confusion

Season 20 • Episode 8

JFK Jr. disappears on the way to Martha's Vineyard; a captain loses his bearings and crashes.