Season 10
Air Disasters
Episodes
Deadly Silence
On Oct 25, 1999 — Learjet 35 N47BA: A private jet carrying golf champion Payne Stewart stops responding to radio calls and flies on across the Midwest, with Air Force fighters scrambling to find out why.
★ 9.5 · 1 votes
The Pentagon Attack
On Sep 11, 2001 — American Airlines Flight 77 (Boeing 757): Minutes after leaving Washington Dulles, hijackers turn a jet back toward the capital and into the Pentagon, forever changing commercial aviation.
Disaster at Tenerife
On Mar 27, 1977 — KLM Flight 4805 & Pan Am Flight 1736 (Boeing 747s): In fog at a small Canary Islands airport, two jumbo jets meet on the same runway — history's deadliest air disaster.
Deadly Detail
On Aug 20, 2007 — China Airlines Flight 120 (Boeing 737): Safely parked at the gate in Okinawa with engines shut down, a jet suddenly erupts in flames as passengers scramble to evacuate.
Deadly Detour
On Jul 30, 1998 — Proteus Airlines Flight 706 (Beechcraft 1900D): A short French coastal hop takes a scenic detour over a famous ocean liner — and moments later the commuter plane goes down in Quiberon Bay.
Dangerous Approach
On Jan 19, 1988 — Trans-Colorado Flight 2286 (Fairchild Metro III): Five miles from the runway at Durango, a commuter flight descends into the frozen Colorado wilderness, and a phone call steers the investigation somewhere unexpected.
Murder in the Skies
On Mar 24, 2015 — Germanwings Flight 9525 (Airbus A320): A routine flight from Barcelona to Düsseldorf begins an unexplained descent over the French Alps, with no response from the cockpit.
River Runway
On Jan 16, 2002 — Garuda Indonesia Flight 421 (Boeing 737): Battered by a violent storm over Java, a jet loses both engines and its electrical power, leaving the crew one perilous option for getting down.
★ 9.5 · 1 votes
Deadly Solution
On Dec 28, 2014 — Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 (Airbus A320): Days after Christmas, a flight bound for Singapore vanishes over the Java Sea, and an international team must explain how a modern jet fell from cruise.
Afghan Nightmare
On Apr 29, 2013 — National Airlines Flight 102 (Boeing 747): Seconds after lifting off from Bagram Airfield with 100 tons of military cargo, a jumbo jet rears up, stalls, and falls — all captured on a dashcam.
