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Special Report: Northern Extremes

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

Special Report: Splash Down

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

Special Report: Cockpit Breakdown

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

Special Report: Runway Collisions

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

Special Report: Frozen Wings

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....

Special Report: Landings Gone Wrong

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

Special Report: Risky Runways

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

Special Report: Lethal Choices

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

Special Report: Engine Gone

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

Special Report: Dead of Night

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

Special Report Season 2: Take Off Tragedies

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

Special Report Season 2: Maintenance Mistakes

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

Special Report Season 2: Heat of the Moment

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

Special Report Season 2: Instrument Confusion

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

Special Report Season 2: Survivors

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

Special Report Season 2: Mountain Impact

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

Special Report Season 2: Lapse in Security

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

Special Report Season 2: VIP on Board

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

Special Report Season 2: Death From Above

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

Special Report Season 2: Courage in the Cockpit

Devastating systems failures in the air put pilots to the test and shine a light on three astonishing feats of flying, including Qantas Flight 2....

Special Report Season 19 : Design Flaws

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

Special Report Season 19 : Radio Silence

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

Special Report Season 19 : Deadly Confusion

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....

Special Report Season 19 : Runway in Sight

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

Special Report Season 19 : Perilous Payloads

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

Special Report Season 19 : Fuel Trouble

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

Special Report Season 19 : Engines Out

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

Special Report Season 19 : Collision Course

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

Special Report Season 19 : Rookie Errors

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

Special Report Season 19 : Headline News

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

Special Report Season 18 : Fire on Board

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

Special Report Season 18 : Deadly Distractions

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

Special Report Season 18 : Controversial Crashes

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

Special Report Season 18 : Missing Pieces

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

Special Report Season 18 : Killer in the Cockpit?

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

Special Report Season 18 : Explosive Evidence

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

Special Report Season 18 : Plane vs. Pilot

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

Special Report Season 18 : Hero Pilots

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

Special Report Season 18 : Bad Attitude

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

Special Report Season 18 : Communication Breakdown

This special looked at how failures in communication lead to disasters...

Special Report Season 1: Getting Out Alive

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...

Crash of the Century

March 27, 1977 – At 2: 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 f...

Final Hour of Flight 11 Aircrash Confidential Mystery