Air Disasters
Season 15
2020 • 10 Episodes
Episodes
1. Kathmandu Descent
September 6, 2020
Witness the final minutes of PIA Flight 268 and discover why it crashed into a mountain just minutes from landing.
2. Impossible Pitch
September 13, 2020
Witness the doomed flight of a West Air Sweden jet and see how the failure of a single instrument led to catastrophe.
3. Explosive Touchdown
September 20, 2020
Most passengers relax after their plane touches down, but when Uni Air Flight 873 landed, that's when the terror began.
4. Taxiway Turmoil
September 27, 2020
Follow the investigation to see how a DC-9 ended up on the wrong runway and in the path of an oncoming 727.
5. Runway Breakup
October 4, 2020
Landing on a Caribbean island in a severe tropical storm, a Colombian airliner crashes short of the runway. Investigators need to find out why.
6. Icy Descent
October 11, 2020
Investigators are stumped when a turboprop slams into an Argentine desert, and it's a microscopic filament that provides the first tangible clue.
7. Atlantic Ditching
October 18, 2020
A helicopter carrying offshore oil workers crashes into the ocean off the coast of Newfoundland and a far-reaching investigation reveals a fatal flaw.
8. No Warning
October 25, 2020
Investigators are stumped when a turboprop crashes into an Indonesian mountaintop.
9. Cockpit Killer
November 1, 2020
When an African airliner mysteriously crashes, Namibian investigators rule out a host of possible causes before reaching a chilling conclusion.
10. Stormy Cockpit
November 8, 2020
A brand-new 737 falls from the sky over West Africa during a major storm, but investigators eventually discover weather had nothing to do with it.