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S0 · E2Crash of the Century 2006-08-13 · 45 min＋

March 27, 1977 – At 2:00 in the afternoon a thick fog rolled into the usually quiet Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. On the runway sat two fully loaded jumbo airliners, blanketed in fog. A bomb explosion at a nearby airport had re-directed air traffic to the undermanned airfield at Tenerife. Within three hours, a KLM 747 slams into a taxiing PAM 747, killing 583 people. The planes never left the ground.

S0 · E3Special Report Season 13: Getting Out Alive 2014-05-09 · 45 min＋

This special looked at how people survive aviation accidents, in part with demonstrations at the Czech Airlines Training Centre. It provided case studies on the following flight: - Asiana Airlines Flight 214 - Air France Flight 358 - Reeve Aleutian Airways Flight 8 - Air Canada Flight 797 - US Airways Flight 1549

S0 · E4Special Report Season 18 : Communication Breakdown 2018-07-09 · 45 min＋

This special looked at how failures in communication lead to disasters

S0 · E5Special Report Season 18 : Bad Attitude 2018-07-16 · 45 min＋

This special looked at how pilots' aggressive or unprofessional behaviour can cause deadly accidents.

S0 · E6Special Report Season 18 : Hero Pilots 2018-07-23 · 45 min＋

This special looked at how pilots safely land their aircraft in emergency situations.

S0 · E7Special Report Season 18 : Plane vs. Pilot 2018-07-30 · 45 min＋

This special looked at how automation in the cockpit causes deadly misunderstandings.

S0 · E8Special Report Season 18 : Explosive Evidence 2018-08-06 · 45 min＋

This special looked at terrorist acts, including bombings and shootdowns.

S0 · E9Special Report Season 18 : Killer in the Cockpit? 2018-08-13 · 45 min＋

This special looked at pilots' carefully planned strategies in deliberately crashing aircraft.

S0 · E10Special Report Season 18 : Missing Pieces 2018-08-20 · 45 min＋

This special looked at foreign items, including ice, a chemical oxygen generator, and a bomb as the cause.

S0 · E11Special Report Season 18 : Controversial Crashes 2018-08-27 · 45 min＋

This special looked at disasters where multiple investigations don't agree on the cause of these accidents.

S0 · E12Special Report Season 18 : Deadly Distractions 2018-09-03 · 45 min＋

This special looked at how pilots' deviation from cockpit duties lead to crashes.

S0 · E13Special Report Season 18 : Fire on Board 2018-09-10 · 45 min＋

This special looked at disasters caused by fires, either on the ground or in the air.

Three devastating crashes make front page news and the media frenzy puts intense pressure to uncover the true cause of these deadly disasters.

While commercial pilots undergo hundreds of hours of training and testing, even experienced pilots can make deadly rookie errors.

Investigators comb through the wreckage of three separate midair collisions in a race to prevent another fatal impact.

When an aircraft loses total engine power, a pilot's training can make all the difference in the world.

Three mysterious accidents send investigators hunting for clues. In the end, all three trails lead back to the same source - the fuel tank.

Three planes fatally out of balance highlight to investigators a flight risk that's entirely preventable, and yet seemingly not stopping.

If pilots aren't prepared when the runway is in sight, a landing can quickly become a tragedy as evidenced in these three crashes.

Spatial disorientation is one of the leading causes of all air accidents. Even the most experienced pilots are susceptible to its subtle yet deadly effects.

Radio silence between pilots and controllers can mean many different things, but in these stories, the physical evidence reveals the truth.

S0 · E23Special Report Season 19 : Design Flaws 2019-12-07 · 45 min＋

Drawing the attention of the entire world, three fatal design flaws put air crash investigators in a storm of controversy.

Devastating systems failures in the air put pilots to the test and shine a light on three astonishing feats of flying, including Qantas Flight 32.