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Air Disasters — Season 6

Episodes

  • E01 Hanging by a Thread

    Sep 13, 2015 · 45m

    The 1988 flight of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, which saw the top of its fuselage torn off due to an explosive decompression, is recalled.

  • E02 Attack Over Baghdad

    Sep 6, 2015 · 45m

    A surface-to-air missile cripples a cargo plane just after it leaves Baghdad International Airport.

  • E03 Out of Control

    Aug 30, 2015 · 45m

    Japan Airlines Flight 123, the worst single-plane crash in history and the simple error made years earlier that caused it.

  • E04 Fight for Your Life

    Aug 23, 2015 · 45m

    FedEx employees fend off an attack by a coworker.

  • E05 Bomb on Board

    Aug 16, 2015 · 45m

    A mid-flight bombing aboard Philippine Airlines Flight 434 forces its pilots to attempt a daring landing at Naha Airport in Okinawa, Japan.

  • E06 Mistaken Identity

    Aug 9, 2015 · 45m

    A Navy cruiser in the Persian Gulf must determine if an incoming plane is friend or foe.

  • E07 Helicopter Down

    Feb 14, 2016 · 45m

    The 1995 crash of a Super Puma helicopter in the North Sea while ferrying workers to an oil platform is recounted.

  • E08 Death and Denial

    Feb 21, 2016 · 45m

    The worst plane crash in Egypt's history becomes one the most controversial when the investigation focuses on one pilot's intentions.

  • E09 Kid in the Cockpit

    Feb 28, 2016 · 45m

    A pilot allows his teen son to fly the plane; tragedy results.

  • E10 Ocean Landing

    Mar 6, 2016 · 45m

    The story of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961, which was hijacked while on a routine trip to the Ivory Coast. The hijackers demanded to be taken to Australia, but there was one problem: the plane didn't have enough fuel to make the trip.

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