Air Disasters (2011)
Date de parution : 15 mai 2011
| Saison 1 - épisode 1 | Invisible Killer A landing goes wrong when Delta Airlines Flight 191 is hit by an invisible force. | |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 2 | Gimli Glider A pilot heads for a decommissioned air force base when the 767 he is flying runs out of fuel. |
| Saison 1 - épisode 3 | Behind Closed Doors A flaw on the infamous DC-10 airline causing two midair crashes in the early 70's. | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 4 | Fanning the Flames A recovery operation is launched to find out if a 747 was carrying illegal weapons. | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 5 | Dead Weight Just after take-off, Air Midwest Flight 5481 plummets to the ground, killing all on board. | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 6 | Southern Storm Pilots of Southern Airways Flight 242 must try to land on a Georgia highway after the engines die. | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 7 | Explosive Evidence A bomb explodes on Air India Flight 182 en route from Canada to India. | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 8 | Mixed Signals Conflicting alarms confuse pilots of Birgenair Flight 301 before it crashes into the ocean. | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 9 | Fatal Distraction Pilots try to determine why both landing-gear lights do not function on an L-1011. | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 10 | Phantom Strike A Legacy business jet collides with a Boeing 737 in mid-air over the Amazon Rain Forest. | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 1 | Cracks in the System Chalk's Ocean Airways flight 101 crashes just after take-off from Watson Island in Miami. | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 2 | Target is Destroyed Korean Airlines Flight 007 is shot down by a fighter jet when it enters Soviet airspace. | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 3 | Cruel Skies The importance of weather forecasting to the aviation industry. | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 4 | Panic on the Runway In August, 1985, an airplane's engine catches fire as it accelerates. | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 5 | Alarming Silence Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes shortly after take-off in Detroit. | |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 6 | Cold Case A design flaw on the Fokker F28 causes two similar plane crashes in Ontario and New York. |
| Saison 2 - épisode 7 | Pilot vs. Plane Air France Flight 296 fails to regain altitude after performing a flyby during an air show. | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 8 | System Breakdown Five aviation disasters and the changes they have forced air-traffic controllers to make. | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 9 | The Final Blow An Air Inter flight crashes into the Vosges Mountains while attempting to land. | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 10 | Cleared for Disaster An air traffic controller's mistake causes two planes to collide on the runway. | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 11 | The Plane That Flew Too High The West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crash ultimately leads to bankruptcy of the troubled airline. | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 12 | Deadly Reputation AM Airlines Flight 3054 slides off a runway and crashes into a warehouse next to a petrol station. | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 1 | Blind Spot In 1978, passengers and seven people on the ground die when a PSA flight crashed into a Cessna. | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 2 | Mayday Munich Manchester United football team's plane crashes while returning from Yugoslavia, killing 23 aboard. | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 3 | I'm the Problem Moments before a Pacific Southwest flight crashes in California, gunshots are heard in the cabin. | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 4 | Impossible Landing United Airlines Flight 232 crashes into Sioux City's runway in 1989. | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 5 | Turning Point A Northwest Airlines flight above the Bering Sea must make an emergency landing in Anchorage. | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 6 | Breakup Over Texas In September 1991, Continental Express Flight 2574 suffers wing damage and goes into a dive falling out of the sky. | |
 | Saison 3 - épisode 7 | Under Pressure A burst tire creates an in-flight fire on flight 2120 which causes passengers and crew to perish. |
| Saison 3 - épisode 8 | The Invisible Plane Moments after take-off, SAS Flight 686 collides with a Cessna on the runway. | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 9 | Bad Attitude A Korean Air Cargo flight crashes in a field moments after takeoff from England's Stansted Airport. | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 10 | Split Decision In December 1985, Arrow Air Flight 1285, an international charter flight returning the U.S. 101st Airborne Division, the "Screaming Eagles", from a... | |
 | Saison 3 - épisode 11 | Nowhere to Land An emergency landing during a violent storm kills the engines of a 737. |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 1 | Fight for Control The Lockheed Electra was the workhorse of Reeve Aleutian Airways, one of the few links from Cold Bay, Alaska, to the outside world. But on June 8,... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 2 | Fire in the Hold The worst aviation disaster in Florida's history occurred on May 11, 1996. ValuJet Flight 592 mysteriously crashed into the alligator-infested... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 3 | Caution to the Wind On October 31, 2000, Singapore Flight 6, a 747 in Taipei enroute to Los Angeles, taxis to the wrong runway during heavy rainstorms caused by a... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 4 | Pushed to the Limit It's a clear and calm December day in 1997 when a Boeing 737 suddenly plummets from the sky into an Indonesian jungle at supersonic speed. All 104... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 5 | Blind Landing Just three miles from its destination and assaulted by severe weather, TANS Peru Flight 204, crashes in Peru's Amazon jungle, leaving a... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 6 | Grand Canyon Two commercial airliners go missing over the Arizona desert, and are later found in pieces, scattered along the Grand Canyon floor. It's 1956, and... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 7 | Catastrophe at O'Hare It was the deadliest aviation disaster in U.S. history of its time. The 1979 crash of American Airlines Flight 191 terrified a nation and nearly put... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 8 | Focused on Failure Just minutes before touching down in Portland International Airport, all four engines of a DC-8 mysteriously flame out. With the aircraft dropping... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 9 | Hockey Team Tragedy On 7 September 2011, Yak-Service Flight 9633, a Yakovlev Yak-42 Russian passenger jet, crashes into the Volga River, killing almost everyone on board.... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 10 | Death of the President It was an air disaster that crippled a country, heightened tensions between two nations, and ignited conspiracy theories worldwide. On April 10,... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 11 | Subtle Incapacitation Five minutes into Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409, something goes wrong. The pilots lose control of their aircraft, and before they can regain... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 12 | Seconds to Survive Santa Barbara Airlines Flight 518, an ATR 42-300 twin-turboprop, is about to embark on a difficult, but common, trip from Merida, Venezuela to... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 13 | Vanished On June 1, 2009, a modern Airbus A330, traveling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, vanished somewhere over the Atlantic. The families of the 228... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 1 | Fight to the Death Can a generation gap actually cause a catastrophic air disaster? Witness the story of BEA Flight 548, a scheduled passenger flight from London... |
| Saison 5 - épisode 2 | Speed Trap On June 6, 1971, Hughes Airwest Flight 706, a Douglas DC-9-31, enroute from Los Angeles, California, to Salt Lake City, Utah, collided in mid-air... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 3 | Lost in Translation In January 2000, Crossair Flight 498, a Saab 340 commuter flight from Zurich, Switzerland, to Dresden, Germany, crashed two minutes after takeoff in... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 4 | Tragedy on the Potomac On January 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737-222, crashed into the 14th Street Bridge and plunged through the ice into the Potomac River... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 5 | Queens Catastrophe On November 12, 2001, American Airlines Flight 587, enroute from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport to the Dominican Republic, crashed... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 6 | Into the Eye of the Storm In September of 1989, NOAA 42 “Kermit” flew a research mission into Hurricane Hugo, east of Barbados. On approach, there was a temporary outage of... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 7 | Massacre Over the Mediterranean In June of 1980, Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 was a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-15 that left Guglielmo Marconi airport in Bologna, Italy traveling to... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 8 | Imperfect Pitch In November of 2008, XL Airways Germany Flight 888T crashed at high speed into the Mediterranean Sea killing all 7 on board. The Airbus A320-232 was... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 9 | Getting Out Alive Did you know 80% of all air accidents are survivable? See how the aviation industry is working to raise that number as survival stories, including... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 10 | Terror in Paradise In August 2007, what should have been a seven-minute island-hop from Moorea to Tahiti, in French Polynesia, ended in disaster. According to... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 11 | Titanic in the Sky The world's largest commercial airliner is coming apart in midair. Fortunately, the pilots are keeping it all together. The story of Qantas Flight... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 1 | Hanging by a Thread The 1988 flight of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, which saw the top of its fuselage torn off due to an explosive decompression, is recalled. | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 2 | Attack Over Baghdad A 2003 surface-to-air missile attack in Iraq on a DHL Airbus A300, which was carrying letters home from U.S. soldiers, is recalled. The plane was... | |
 | Saison 6 - épisode 3 | Out of Control Recalling the 1985 crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123 in Japan, the worst single-plane crash in history. |
| Saison 6 - épisode 4 | Fight for Your Life FedEx employees fend off an attack by a coworker. | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 5 | Bomb on Board A mid-flight bombing aboard Philippine Airlines Flight 434 forces its pilots to attempt a daring landing at Naha Airport in Okinawa, Japan. | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 6 | Mistaken Identity A Navy cruiser in the Persian Gulf must determine if an incoming plane is friend or foe. | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 7 | Helicopter Down The 1995 crash of a Super Puma helicopter in the North Sea while ferrying workers to an oil platform is recounted. | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 8 | Death and Denial The worst plane crash in Egypt's history becomes one the most controversial when the investigation focuses on one pilot's intentions. | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 9 | Titanic in the Sky The story of Qantas Flight 32, a 2010 passenger flight from London to Sydney, Australia. After taking off from Singapore's Changi Airport for the... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 10 | Kid in the Cockpit A pilot allows his teen son to fly the plane; tragedy results. | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 11 | Ocean Landing 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... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 1 | Miracle Escape An August 2005 incident in which an Airbus A340 skidded off a runway, endangering the lives of more than 300 people on board, is investigated. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 2 | Falling from the Sky A passenger jet tries to make it to land when it runs into trouble over the Indian Ocean. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 3 | Fire Fight A smoke-filled DC-10 makes an emergency landing in Cincinnati and, 90 seconds later, bursts into flames. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 4 | Missed Approach The 1997 crash of Korean Air Flight 801, which occurred when the crew attempted an instrument landing during a heavy rain storm, is recalled. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 5 | Hidden Danger Two deadly Boeing 737 crashes during the 1990s are investigated. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 6 | Panic Over the Pacific The story of China Airlines Flight 006, which almost crashed into the Pacific Ocean after experiencing engine trouble. The investigation of the... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 7 | Out of Sight The investigation into a midair collision over Cerritos, Cal., leads to improvements in how planes are monitored. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 8 | Fog at War The 1996 crash in Croatia of USAF IFO-21, an executive transport aircraft carrying Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and 34 others, is examined. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 9 | Vertigo An examination of the crash over the Red Sea in January 2004. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 10 | Ghost Plane The case of Helios Airways 737, in which a passenger flight circling Athens fails to respond to air-traffic controllers. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 11 | Choosing Sides The crash of a 737-400 on a busy motorway is investigated. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 12 | Testing the Limits The first-ever 767 plane crash in history: Lauda Air flight 004. | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 1 | Choosing Sides One of the worst crashes in British history has a stunning cause that changed aviation safety forever. | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 2 | Testing the Limits What caused a 767 to break apart in mid-air? A world-famous race car driver discovers a surprising answer. | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 3 | Vanishing Act After a terrifying crash, survivors face a new challenge: surviving the remote Brazilian jungle. | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 4 | Sideswiped Relive the crash of Copa Airlines Flight 201 and the harrowing investigation in one of the world's most remote jungles. | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 5 | The Final Push See if two MD-11 planes crashes, nearly 12 years apart, were both the result of pilot error or a flaw in the aircraft itself. | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 6 | The Death of JFK Jr. Relive one of the most shocking air disasters in American history as we revisit the 1999 crash that killed JFK Jr. | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 7 | Concorde - Up in Flames Follow investigators as they use the few remaining pieces of a fiery crash to explain a Concorde's doomed flight. | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 8 | Accident or Assassination Mexico's war with drug cartels appears to reach a terrifying new level when a special government charter carrying the president's right-hand man... | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 9 | No Clear Options When a commuter turboprop plane crashes at an Irish airport, investigators uncover a startling gap in aviation safety. | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 10 | Death in the Arctic An investigation of a charter plane that moves off course and goes down in Canada's far north. | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 1 | Fatal Transmission In 1996, at Quincy Regional Airport in Illinois, United Express Flight 5925, a Beechcraft 1900 twin turboprop, collided on landing with another... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 2 | Terror in San Francisco On July 6, 2013, when Asiana Flight 214 crashed after striking the seawall short of the runway on final approach into San Francisco, it shook the... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 3 | High Rise Catastrophe In October 1992, El Al Flight 1862, a cargo jet heading from Amsterdam to Tel Aviv suddenly begins rolling violently just seven minutes after takeoff.... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 4 | Fatal Focus What caused Garuda Flight 200 to slam to the ground and careen off the runway in Yogyakarta, Indonesia? Was it a powerful downdraft? Was there... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 5 | Fatal Delivery In September 2010, shortly after taking off from Dubai, UPS Flight 6 catches fire. With flames spreading throughout the main deck, the pilots make a... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 6 | Carnage in Sao Paolo Not far from Congonhas Airport, a Sao Paulo neighborhood is in flames. It's a scene of devastation caused by TAM Airlines Flight 3054, a plane that... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 7 | Deadly Delay Just seconds after taking off from Madrid International Airport, Spanair Flight 5022 rolls to the right and slams into a riverbank beside the runway.... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 8 | Steep Impact The 1991 crash of Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 2311 to Brunswick, Georgia claims the lives of a NASA astronaut and a former U.S. senator and... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 9 | Edge of Disaster A routine landing in October 2006 on the Norwegian island of Stord turns fatal for Atlantic Airways Flight 670 when the commuter plane skids out of... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 10 | Deadly Mission It's 1961. Air traffic controllers and local dignitaries in Ndola, Africa await the arrival of UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, flying in on a... | |
 | Saison 10 - épisode 1 | Deadly Silence A private Learjet carrying golf legend and reigning U.S. Open champion Payne Stewart takes off from Orlando heading for Dallas in 1999. But within... |
 | Saison 10 - épisode 2 | The Pentagon Attack A Boeing 757 takes off from Washington Dulles International Airport en route to Los Angeles. In minutes, hijackers storm the cockpit and turn the... |
 | Saison 10 - épisode 3 | Disaster at Tenerife Nearly half a century later, it remains history's deadliest air crash. The 1977 collision of two jumbo jets at a tiny airport in the Canary Islands... |
 | Saison 10 - épisode 4 | Deadly Detail The chances of a catastrophic event happening after a plane parks are nearly nonexistent, which is why the incident aboard China Airlines Flight 120... |
 | Saison 10 - épisode 5 | Deadly Detour A short hop from Lyon, France to Brittany in 1998 is extended when pilots of Proteus Airlines Flight 706, a Beechcraft 1900D, decide to give... |
 | Saison 10 - épisode 6 | Dangerous Approach Continental Express Flight 2286, a Trans-Colorado Airlines commuter plane, flies over the Rocky Mountains heading to Durango-La Plata County Airport... |
 | Saison 10 - épisode 7 | Murder in the Skies It's a routine takeoff on an ordinary morning in 2015 when Germanwings Flight 9525 leaves Barcelona for Dusseldorf. But something goes horribly... |
 | Saison 10 - épisode 8 | River Runway During Indonesia's unpredictable rainy season, a Boeing 737 suddenly finds itself in the middle of a violent storm in January 2002. The... |
 | Saison 10 - épisode 9 | Deadly Solution Just days after Christmas in 2014, an Airbus A320 en route to Singapore disappears over the Java Sea. A massive search confirms the worst: the plane... |
 | Saison 10 - épisode 10 | Afghan Nightmare It's April 2013. A 747 cargo plane leaves Afghanistan's largest airfield with 207,000 pounds of military equipment. Within seconds of takeoff, the... |
| Saison 11 - épisode 1 | Explosive Proof After a long delay on a hot July evening in 1996, TWA Flight 800 leaves John F. Kennedy Airport carrying 230 passengers and crew en route to Paris.... | |
| Saison 11 - épisode 2 | Killer Attitude On a commuter flight from Minneapolis to Hibbing in 1993, Northwest Airlink Flight 5719 descends into the clouds on a cold Minnesota night.... | |
| Saison 11 - épisode 3 | Deadly Myth A blackened scar on a frozen field near Detroit marks the fatal impact zone of Flight 3272. The sudden loss of 29 lives leaves families in anguish... | |
| Saison 11 - épisode 4 | The Turning Point Air China Flight 129 prepares to land at Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea when a direction from air traffic control to change its... | |
| Saison 11 - épisode 5 | Lethal Turn A routine flight from Jakarta to Medan, Indonesia encounters a very non-routine obstacle: forest fires that are sending a thick blanket of smoke... | |
| Saison 11 - épisode 6 | Storming Out It was supposed to be a routine 50-minute hop from Columbia, SC to Charlotte, NC for USAir Flight 1016. But in an instant, a beautiful summer day... | |
| Saison 11 - épisode 7 | Caught on Tape It was a state-of-the-art commuter plane making a simple one-hour flight from Taipei to a Taiwanese island off the coast of China. But within... | |
| Saison 11 - épisode 8 | Terror Over Egypt An Airbus A321 carrying Russian tourists back from Egypt in 2015 suddenly disappears from radar minutes after takeoff. Air Force jets locate the... | |
| Saison 11 - épisode 9 | Deadly Discussions A 737 leaving Buenos Aires fails to lift off in August 1999, hurtling past the airport and crashing into a nearby industrial gas plant.... | |
| Saison 11 - épisode 10 | The Lost Plane An Airbus A310 is minutes from reaching Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport when it disappears in the Himalayas. Two days later, the... | |
| Saison 12 - épisode 1 | Nuts and Bolts Emery Worldwide Flight 17 leaves Sacramento Mather Airport in February 2000 while carrying a load of freight containers. Upon takeoff, the aircraft... | |
| Saison 12 - épisode 2 | Blown Away The landing of a TransAsia commuter flight in bad weather goes horribly wrong in July 2014. The plane crashes less than a mile from Magong Airport... | |
| Saison 12 - épisode 3 | Deadly Distraction A Boeing 727 leaving Dallas for Salt Lake City on August 31, 1988 crashes just moments after takeoff, killing 14 of the 108 passengers and crew on... | |
| Saison 12 - épisode 4 | Deadly Airspace A commercial airliner whisks 283 passengers from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur on a flight path that will take them over a conflict zone in eastern... | |
| Saison 12 - épisode 5 | Deadly Display The state-of-the-art Russian aircraft Sukhoi Superjet 100 takes flight on what's meant to be a tight, 30-minute loop over Indonesia to impress... | |
| Saison 12 - épisode 6 | Deadly Space In the skies above the Mojave Desert, Virgin Galactic's commercial spacecraft, SpaceShipTwo, accelerates toward the outer reaches of Earth's... | |
| Saison 12 - épisode 7 | Free Fall Qantas Airways Flight 72 cruises at 37,000 feet to Perth, Australia from Singapore. Suddenly, the highly automated A-330 fires off a series of... | |
| Saison 12 - épisode 8 | Deadly Inclination A DC-9 lines up for a nighttime landing at Zurich's Kloten Airport. Although the pilots can't see the runway, their navigation instruments indicate... | |
| Saison 12 - épisode 9 | Deadly Go Round China Airlines Flight 140 is less than three minutes from touching down at Japan's Nagoya Airport. Suddenly, the highly automated A300 gains speed... | |
| Saison 12 - épisode 10 | Dead Of Winter As Denver air traffic controllers struggle to keep departures on schedule amid heavy snow in 1987, a DC-9 is delayed on the tarmac. When the crew is... | |
| Saison 13 - épisode 1 | Deadly Descent See what happens when an airbus A330 loses power to both its engines over the South China Sea. | |
| Saison 13 - épisode 2 | Death Race When a modified WWII fighter plane crashes into the crowd at a Nevada air show, investigators struggle to find the cause. | |
| Saison 13 - épisode 3 | Fatal Approach A false warning in the cockpit triggers a series of pilot errors, sending a commuter plane crashing by the runway of an Amsterdam airport. | |
| Saison 13 - épisode 4 | Borderline Tactics When a DC-8 cargo jet crashes on approach to a U.S. naval base in Guantanamo, investigators wonder if Cuba played a role. |
