Air Disasters

Three devastating crashes make front-page news around the globe; the media frenzy puts intense pressure on investigators to uncover the causes.

History's most terrifying air disasters, and the investigations that followed, are revisited and reexamined.

A passenger ferry sinks after crashing into rocks off the coast of a Greek island, killing 82; it leads to a shocking investigation.

When an aircraft loses total engine power, a pilot's training can make all the difference in the world, but it's still up to investigators to determine what went wrong.

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 force investigators to question every calculation; it's a flight risk that's entirely preventable, and yet repeated disasters reconfirm the need for critical backup systems.

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

JFK Jr. disappears on the way to Martha's Vineyard; a captain loses his bearings and crashes over the Red Sea; pilots crash a plane over Indonesia.

The business jet carrying PGA golfer Payne Stewart and former Alabama football quarterback crashes; how loss of pressurization and structural failure led to this crash and the deadliest aviation accidents in both Greek and Taiwanese history.

When former race car driver Niki Lauda's planes nosedives into a Thai jungle, a one-in-a-million failure reveals a weak spot in every Boeing 767; radio silence between pilots and air traffic controllers send investigators hunting for answers.

Featuring captivating reenactments and state-of-the-art CGI; Air Crash Investigation uncovers the truth behind the most legendary aviation disasters of all time.

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

Airplane crashes involving high-profile passengers put added pressure on investigators.

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

Following three horrifying crashes, investigators uncover fatal flaws in the very operations designed to prevent aircraft from flying into mountains.

From the wreckage of three airplane crashes, survivors emerge to tell harrowing tales and provide critical data about what to do in an emergency.

Midair tragedies are particularly horrifying when they occur over a community, and rain terror on the people below.

Devastating failures in the air put pilots to the test and shine a light on three feats of flying.

A trio of crashes reveals that when the nuts and bolts of maintenance go unchecked, it can spell catastrophe.

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

Confused, flying blind and lost in the dark, three crews lose sight of the horizon and fall into the same deadly trap.

Three crews experience the same devastating event; with radically different outcomes when an engine falls off their commercial airplane.

Faced with a midair crisis, pilots must make a life or death decision, but the wrong approach can trigger a far more serious problem.

In São Paulo, the Himalayas, and on the Norwegian coast, the toughest landings on earth pushed three flight crews.

Relying on instinct rather than the rule book, three flights end in tragedy when crews improvise on their final approach.

The consequences are disastrous when ice forms on an airplane's wings; three planes are brought down by ice, and it's up to investigators to determine how modern aircraft could possibly end up with frozen wings.

Three catastrophic runway collisions raise the same pressing question; a look at how two planes end up on the same runway at the same time.

Three flights end in tragedy after miscommunication mix-ups and personality clashes; Investigators try to unravel what went wrong.

Three last-resort water landings, all handled differently yet each one crucial to improving the outcomes of ditching on open water.

Faced with the extreme conditions of the far North, three flights fall out of the sky leaving investigators to uncover the cause.