Air Crash Investigation

- Season 16

(2016)

When a private Learjet crashes in South Dakota, USA, with star golfer Payne Stewart, investigators are under pressure to figure out how the plane strayed so far off course before crashing.

See how the Pentagon attack on 9/11 was carried out and how it permanently altered air travel today.

Join us as we examine the 1977 crash at Los Rodeos Airport that killed 583 people and the shocking reasons behind it.

China Airlines Flight 120 catches fire after the plane has landed, parked and had its engines switched off. An evacuation follows. The pilots must escape from a cockpit window. The blaze all but destroys the aircraft.

Enroute Flight 706 from Lyon to Lorient is knocked out of the sky over Baie de Quiberon France.

Disaster strikes on way to Durango - La Plata Colorado for commuters.

On an ordinary day Germanwings flight 9525 has an outcome beyond belief in March 2015 on the French Alps.

After losing both engines and all electrical power in a violent storm, the pilots of Garuda Indonesia Flight 421 manage a remarkable emergency landing.

The captain of Air Asia Flight 8501 overrides the computers instructions and his impromptu fix leads to a deadly stall over the Java Sea.

A 747 cargo plane crashes seconds after taking off from a U.S. airfield in Afghanistan, and an overlooked piece of evidence eventually tells investigators they were wrong about the cause.