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Air Disasters.Harrowing stories of tragedy and triumph in the sky are brought to life through official reports and interviews with flight crews, investigators, and survivors of history's most terrifying crashes. Widely considered to be the safest form of travel, air transportation is still in its infancy, and when midair calamity strikes, the results are often catastrophic. From the control room to the crash scene, we uncover what went wrong, then reveal what's been done to ensure these disasters never happen again. Tags.On TV. Tomorrow.

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3:00pm. Season 13.A risky landing, inexperience, and intimidation conspired to doom a commuter plane in 1994.The risky and reckless choices of a cash-strapped airline brought the story of a Brazilian soccer team to a tragic end.Russian and U.S. Season 6.Witness a brave pilot battle against hijackers and a crippled plane to land his passenger jet on the open ocean.Enter the cockpit of RIA Flight 593, where pilots battle an uncooperative plane, gravity, and a teen at the wheel.Was it a mechanical failure or a suicidal pilot that doomed Egypt Air Flight 990? Years later, the dispute continues.The discovery of oil in the North Sea led to economic riches in Britain, and to a terrifying air disaster in 1995.The story of a U.S. Season 5.The world's largest commercial airliner is coming apart in midair. Fortunately, the pilots are keeping it all together.See how a hellish flight in a Polynesian paradise revealed a hidden threat lurking at airports around the world.Did you know 80% of all air accidents are survivable? See how the aviation industry is working to raise that number.Could a simple coat of paint bring down one of the world's most complex planes?.Was it a terrorist bomb or a warplane missile that blew Flight 870 out of the sky?

The debate rages on, decades later.See how hurricane hunters stay airborne despite faulty radar, a failed engine, and a category 5 monster.Follow investigators as they race to determine if a November 2001 Queens plane crash was an accident or act of terror.See how extreme conditions, warm-weather pilots, and poor decisions conspired to bring down a Boeing 737 in 1982.Flap malfunction? Cell phone interference? A heavy sedative? What brought down Crossair Flight 498?.Join NTSB and military experts as they work together to uncover how a fighter jet could collide with a civilian flight.Can a generation gap actually cause a catastrophic air disaster? Witness the story of BEA Flight 548.

Season 3.TACA Airlines Flight 110 is in trouble. Just 20 miles from the airport, the engines quit, effectively turning the Boeing 737 into a multi-ton glider.What was supposed to be a joyous homecoming for the elite 101st Airborne Division ends in a tragic plane crash.Find out why on December 1999, just days before Christmas, Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 crashes after takeoff.A foggy morning in Milan turns deadly when an MD-87, leaving Italy's Linate Airport, collides with a Cessna crossing the same runway.Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 races back to a Saudi Arabian airport just a few minutes after takeoff. Will the pilots be able to safely land the crippled DC-8?.In a blink of an eye, a commuter plane carrying 11 passengers from Laredo to Houston plummets to the earth, dropping thousands of feet in mere seconds.More than 35,000 feet above the Bering Sea, the crew of Northwest Airlines Flight 85 are battling with a crippled aircraft.In July of 1989, halfway through its journey from Denver to Chicago, United Airlines Flight 232 is rocked by an explosion.' I'm the problem.' These are the last words heard on the cockpit voice recording of Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771.Disaster strikes a Munich airport and rocks the sports world when a charter aircraft carrying the Manchester United soccer team crashes.See how investigators and their findings lead to major changes in aircraft landing procedures after a disaster at San Diego's Lindbergh Airport. Season 2.Runway 35L at Congonhas Airport in Brazil is considered to be one of the most dangerous landing strips in the world.

Find out why.An overweight plane, an overworked crew, or an overpowering storm? More Social.

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