Air Crash Investigations

Moments from landing, United Airlines 585 starts spinning out of control and falls out of the sky at 450 kilometres per hour killing everyone on board. A year later, the killer strikes again when another 737 - this time US Air 427 - crashes near Pittsburg killing everyone on board. It's only when a third 737 has a similar problem - but doesn't crash - that investigators crack the case open.

February 19, 1985, China Airlines Flight 006 experiences a series of small problems that snowball into an all-out emergency. In just two minutes the plane falls 30,000 feet (ten kilometres). Miraculously crew manage to stop the plane from crashing and the captain is hailed as a hero by the passengers. Investigators piecing together the extraordinary events of Flight 006 tell a different story.

November 27, 1987. A 747 Combi is on a routine flight toward South Africa when the cabin begins filling with smoke. Passengers struggle to breathe as crew members attempt to fight a fire in the cargo hold. After the plane disappears in the Indian Ocean, an unprecedented recovery operation is launched to locate and raise the wreckage from the ocean floor. Rumours swirl. Did illegal weapons bring do