Air Crash Investigation

- Season 5

(2008)

It's called a microburst, but the havoc it wreaked on Delta Airlines Flight 191 was anything but minuscule.

It's one of the most alarming disasters in the history of aviation, not just because of the crash, but why it happened.

Relive the incredible story of a pilot forced to glide an engineless 767 to safety, from over 26,000 feet in the air.

See how two unrelated failures combined to create a fatal catastrophe, and changed the history of small plane travel.

To find the cause of the crash of Flight 295, they had to dig deep...3 miles deep to the floor of the Indian Ocean.

Torrential rain. Baseball-sized hail. Why did Flight 242 enter this severe storm, and what caused its engines to fail?

A terrorist's bomb blew up Air India Flight 182, but the biggest crime was that it all could have been prevented.

There are many factors affecting an aircraft in flight. Any one of them can bring the plane down. But as the investigation reveals yet again, the most common one is the human factor.

The Eastern Airlines flight 401 crash: the deadliest disaster in U.S. civil aviation history.

A business jet on a delivery flight from Brazil to the US is shaken by a massive hit over the Amazon rainforest. The pilots manage to land the damaged aircraft, but they soon find out that they had a mid-air collision with a passenger jet.