Final Hour of Flight 11 Aircrash Confidential Mystery

S00 E01 • Saturday, Jun 26, 2004 • Jun 26 • 45m

Crash of the Century

S00 E02 • Sunday, Aug 13, 2006 • Aug 13 • 45m

March 27, 1977 – At 2:00 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 fully loaded jumbo airliners, blanketed in fog. A bomb explosion at a nearby airport had re-directed air traffic to the undermanned airfield at Tenerife. Within three hours, a KLM 747 slams into a taxiing PAM 747, killing 583 people. The planes never left the ground.

Special Report Season 13: Getting Out Alive

S00 E03 • Friday, May 9, 2014 • May 9 • 45m

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 following flight: - Asiana Airlines Flight 214 - Air France Flight 358 - Reeve Aleutian Airways Flight 8 - Air Canada Flight 797 - US Airways Flight 1549

Special Report Season 18 : Communication Breakdown

S00 E04 • Monday, Jul 9, 2018 • Jul 9 • 45m

This special looked at how failures in communication lead to disasters

Special Report Season 18 : Bad Attitude

S00 E05 • Monday, Jul 16, 2018 • Jul 16 • 45m

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

Special Report Season 18 : Hero Pilots

S00 E06 • Monday, Jul 23, 2018 • Jul 23 • 45m

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

Special Report Season 18 : Plane vs. Pilot

S00 E07 • Monday, Jul 30, 2018 • Jul 30 • 45m

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

Special Report Season 18 : Explosive Evidence

S00 E08 • Monday, Aug 6, 2018 • Aug 6 • 45m

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

Special Report Season 18 : Killer in the Cockpit?

S00 E09 • Monday, Aug 13, 2018 • Aug 13 • 45m

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

Special Report Season 18 : Missing Pieces

S00 E10 • Monday, Aug 20, 2018 • Aug 20 • 45m

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

Special Report Season 18 : Controversial Crashes

S00 E11 • Monday, Aug 27, 2018 • Aug 27 • 45m

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

Special Report Season 18 : Deadly Distractions

S00 E12 • Monday, Sep 3, 2018 • Sep 3 • 45m

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

Special Report Season 18 : Fire on Board

S00 E13 • Monday, Sep 10, 2018 • Sep 10 • 45m

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

Special Report Season 19 : Headline News

S00 E14 • Saturday, Oct 5, 2019 • Oct 5 • 45m

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 19 : Rookie Errors

S00 E15 • Saturday, Oct 12, 2019 • Oct 12 • 45m

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

Special Report Season 19 : Collision Course

S00 E16 • Saturday, Oct 19, 2019 • Oct 19 • 45m

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

Special Report Season 19 : Engines Out

S00 E17 • Saturday, Oct 26, 2019 • Oct 26 • 45m

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

Special Report Season 19 : Fuel Trouble

S00 E18 • Saturday, Nov 2, 2019 • Nov 2 • 45m

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 : Perilous Payloads

S00 E19 • Saturday, Nov 9, 2019 • Nov 9 • 45m

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 : Runway in Sight

S00 E20 • Saturday, Nov 16, 2019 • Nov 16 • 45m

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 : Deadly Confusion

S00 E21 • Saturday, Nov 23, 2019 • Nov 23 • 45m

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 : Radio Silence

S00 E22 • Saturday, Nov 30, 2019 • Nov 30 • 45m

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 : Design Flaws

S00 E23 • Saturday, Dec 7, 2019 • Dec 7 • 45m

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

Special Report Season 20: Courage in the Cockpit

S00 E24 • Monday, Jul 20, 2020 • Jul 20 • 45m

Devastating systems failures in the air put pilots to the test and shine a light on three astonishing feats of flying, including Qantas Flight 32.

Special Report Season 20: Death From Above

S00 E25 • Monday, Jul 27, 2020 • Jul 27 • 45m

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

Special Report Season 20: VIP on Board

S00 E26 • Monday, Aug 3, 2020 • Aug 3 • 45m

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

Special Report Season 20: Lapse in Security

S00 E27 • Monday, Aug 10, 2020 • Aug 10 • 45m

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 20: Mountain Impact

S00 E28 • Monday, Aug 17, 2020 • Aug 17 • 45m

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

Special Report Season 20: Survivors

S00 E29 • Monday, Aug 24, 2020 • Aug 24 • 45m

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 20: Instrument Confusion

S00 E30 • Monday, Aug 31, 2020 • Aug 31 • 45m

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

Special Report Season 20: Heat of the Moment

S00 E31 • Monday, Sep 7, 2020 • Sep 7 • 45m

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

Special Report Season 20: Maintenance Mistakes

S00 E32 • Monday, Sep 14, 2020 • Sep 14 • 45m

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

Special Report Season 20: Take Off Tragedies

S00 E33 • Monday, Sep 21, 2020 • Sep 21 • 45m

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

Special Report: Dead of Night

S00 E34 • Sunday, Jan 10, 2021 • Jan 10 • 45m

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

Special Report: Engine Gone

S00 E35 • Sunday, Jan 17, 2021 • Jan 17 • 45m

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

Special Report: Lethal Choices

S00 E36 • Sunday, Jan 24, 2021 • Jan 24 • 45m

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: Risky Runways

S00 E37 • Sunday, Jan 31, 2021 • Jan 31 • 45m

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: Landings Gone Wrong

S00 E38 • Sunday, Feb 7, 2021 • Feb 7 • 45m

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

Special Report: Frozen Wings

S00 E39 • Monday, Feb 8, 2021 • Feb 8 • 45m

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: Runway Collisions

S00 E40 • Thursday, Feb 11, 2021 • Feb 11 • 45m

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: Cockpit Breakdown

S00 E41 • Friday, Feb 12, 2021 • Feb 12 • 45m

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

Special Report: Splash Down

S00 E42 • Sunday, Feb 14, 2021 • Feb 14 • 45m

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

Special Report: Northern Extremes

S00 E43 • Monday, Feb 15, 2021 • Feb 15 • 45m

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

Special Report: War Zone

S00 E44 • Monday, Sep 12, 2022 • Sep 12 • 45m

Misidentification and accidental bombing of enemy territory are among the many risks pilots face in military zones around the world.

Special Report: Time Critical

S00 E45 • Monday, Sep 19, 2022 • Sep 19 • 45m

As they rush to finish, some pilots overlook important steps and danger signs and make decisions that threaten the lives of the passengers as well as their own. A Turkish Airlines Boeing 737 crashes into the ground minutes after landing at Amsterdam Airport. A Continental Airlines flight crew ignores normal procedures in Denver amid heavy snow and ice and as the pilots of Ansett New Zealand Flight 703 try to resolve a minor landing gear failure, they hit the ground and their approach ends tragically wrong in the New Zealand slopes.

Special Report: Ticking Time Bomb

S00 E46 • Monday, Sep 26, 2022 • Sep 26 • 45m

Special Report: Impossible Landings

S00 E47 • Monday, Oct 3, 2022 • Oct 3 • 45m

The pilots avoid three dangerous situations where there was no room for error and manage to land damaged planes. A female passenger is sucked out the window of Southwest Flight 1380. The cabin of a Boeing 737 explodes over Hawaii and Air Canada Flight 797 catches fire 90 seconds after an incredible crash landing.

Special Report: Deadly Data

S00 E48 • Monday, Oct 10, 2022 • Oct 10 • 45m

Special Report: Trained to Fail

S00 E49 • Monday, Oct 17, 2022 • Oct 17 • 45m

Special Report: Accidents in the Air

S00 E50 • Monday, Oct 24, 2022 • Oct 24 • 45m

This special looked at mid-air collisions caused by either pilot error or meltdowns within air traffic control.