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1: Final Hour of Flight 11 Aircrash Confidential Mystery

Jun 26, 2004

2: Crash of the Century

Aug 13, 2006

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.

3: Special Report Season 13: Getting Out Alive

May 9, 2014

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

4: Special Report Season 18 : Communication Breakdown

Jul 9, 2018

This special looked at how failures in communication lead to disasters

5: Special Report Season 18 : Bad Attitude

Jul 16, 2018

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

6: Special Report Season 18 : Hero Pilots

Jul 23, 2018

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

7: Special Report Season 18 : Plane vs. Pilot

Jul 30, 2018

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

8: Special Report Season 18 : Explosive Evidence

Aug 6, 2018

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

9: Special Report Season 18 : Killer in the Cockpit?

Aug 13, 2018

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

10: Special Report Season 18 : Missing Pieces

Aug 20, 2018

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

11: Special Report Season 18 : Controversial Crashes

Aug 27, 2018

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

12: Special Report Season 18 : Deadly Distractions

Sep 3, 2018

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

13: Special Report Season 18 : Fire on Board

Sep 10, 2018

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

14: Special Report Season 19 : Headline News

Oct 5, 2019

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

15: Special Report Season 19 : Rookie Errors

Oct 12, 2019

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

16: Special Report Season 19 : Collision Course

Oct 19, 2019

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

17: Special Report Season 19 : Engines Out

Oct 26, 2019

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

18: Special Report Season 19 : Fuel Trouble

Nov 2, 2019

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

19: Special Report Season 19 : Perilous Payloads

Nov 9, 2019

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

20: Special Report Season 19 : Runway in Sight

Nov 16, 2019

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

21: Special Report Season 19 : Deadly Confusion

Nov 23, 2019

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.

22: Special Report Season 19 : Radio Silence

Nov 30, 2019

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

23: Special Report Season 19 : Design Flaws

Dec 7, 2019

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

24: Special Report Season 20: Courage in the Cockpit

Jul 20, 2020

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.

25: Special Report Season 20: Death From Above

Jul 27, 2020

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

26: Special Report Season 20: VIP on Board

Aug 3, 2020

Revisit three crashes involving high-profile passengers and the pressurized investigations into the causes that followed.

27: Special Report Season 20: Lapse in Security

Aug 10, 2020

These are three horrific air disasters that provoked fundamental changes to airport security and the measures we follow across the world today.

28: Special Report Season 20: Mountain Impact

Aug 17, 2020

Follow three horrifying crashes that revealed high-tech blind spots in the technology preventing aircraft from ploughing into mountains.

29: Special Report Season 20: Survivors

Aug 24, 2020

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

30: Special Report Season 20: Instrument Confusion

Aug 31, 2020

Follow three mid-air tragedies that rained terror on those below when they happened over crowded areas.

31: Special Report Season 20: Heat of the Moment

Sep 7, 2020

When aviation decisions are made in the heat of the moment, even minor issues can have fatal consequences.

32: Special Report Season 20: Maintenance Mistakes

Sep 14, 2020

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

33: Special Report Season 20: Take Off Tragedies

Sep 21, 2020

Three flights ending in tragedy prove that minor missteps during take-off can have disastrous consequences.

34: Special Report: Dead of Night

Jan 10, 2021

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

35: Special Report: Engine Gone

Jan 17, 2021

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

36: Special Report: Lethal Choices

Jan 24, 2021

Faced with a mid-air crisis, pilots must make life-and-death decisions, but the wrong approach can trigger a far more serious problem.

37: Special Report: Risky Runways

Jan 31, 2021

In Sao Paolo, the Himalayas, and on the Norwegian coast, three flight crews are pushed to the limit by the toughest landings on earth.

38: Special Report: Landings Gone Wrong

Feb 7, 2021

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

39: Special Report: Frozen Wings

Feb 8, 2021

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.

40: Special Report: Runway Collisions

Feb 11, 2021

Three catastrophic runway collisions raise the same pressing question: How could two planes end up on the same runway at the same time?

41: Special Report: Cockpit Breakdown

Feb 12, 2021

Illustrating the deadly consequences of a mismatched crew, three flights end in tragedy, leaving investigators to unravel what went wrong.

42: Special Report: Splash Down

Feb 14, 2021

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

43: Special Report: Northern Extremes

Feb 15, 2021

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

44: Episode 44

Sep 12, 2022

45: Episode 45

Sep 19, 2022

46: Episode 46

Sep 26, 2022

47: Episode 47

Oct 3, 2022

48: Episode 48

Oct 10, 2022

49: Episode 49

Oct 17, 2022

50: Episode 50

Oct 24, 2022

51: Episode 51

Oct 31, 2022

52: Episode 52

Nov 7, 2022

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