Air Disasters Season 3
Harrowing stories of tragedy and triumph are brought to life through official reports, transcripts and interviews with the pilots, air traffic controllers and lucky survivors of history's most terrifying crashes. Widely considered to be the safest form of travel, air transportation is still in its infancy and when midair calamity strikes, the results are often catastrophic. From the cockpit to the cabin, from the control room to the crash scene, we uncover just what went wrong.
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Air Disasters Season 3 Full Episode Guide
An emergency landing during a violent storm kills the engines of a 737.
Arrow Air Flight 1285 with 248 American soldiers on board crashes after refueling in Newfoundland.
A Korean Air Cargo flight crashes in a field moments after takeoff from England's Stansted Airport.
Moments after take-off, SAS Flight 686 collides with a Cessna on the runway.
A burst tire creates an in-flight fire on flight 2120 which causes passengers and crew to perish.
Continental Express Flight 2574 suffers wing damage and goes into a dive falling out of the sky.
A Northwest Airlines flight above the Bering Sea must make an emergency landing in Anchorage.
United Airlines Flight 232 crashes into Sioux City's runway in 1989.
Moments before a Pacific Southwest flight crashes in California, gunshots are heard in the cabin.
Manchester United football team's plane crashes while returning from Yugoslavia, killing 23 aboard.
In 1978, passengers and seven people on the ground die when a PSA flight crashed into a Cessna.
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