Air Crash Investigations

August 22nd, 1985. With 137 people on board, the crew of British Air tours Flight 28 is preparing to leave Manchester Airport for the Greek island of Corfu. Just as the aircraft is accelerating, a loud 'thud' emanates from outside the plane. Investigators from the AAIB need to figure out how an emergency on an aeroplane that never even left the ground turned into one of the worst disasters in Brit

August 16th, 1987, Flight 255 is on the tarmac and bound for Phoenix, Arizona. The pilots have trouble locating the runway, but once they do, the airplane roars down the runway and barely manages to leave the ground before hitting a pole and slamming into a building, quickly disintegrating. This is the second deadliest airplane disaster in US history, but can investigators determine what went wron

After getting into position over a tiny airfield, the first-ever public demonstration of Airbus A-320 turns into a disaster. The plane ploughs into a forest and is consumed by flames, becoming a public relations nightmare for Europe's aerospace industry. With such a huge investment on the line, there is enormous pressure on investigators to determine what happened. Was the pilot or the plane was a