Air Crash Investigations

A Scandinavian Airlines flight is mired in snow and slush at Stockholm airport. Despite the winter conditions, the aircraft takes off smoothly. But in less than two minutes, both engines fail. As the pilots try restarting them, the left engine erupts in flames. The plane has lost all power and is falling quickly and silently from the sky, hits the ground and breaks into three pieces.

On July 17 2007, TAM Airlines Flight 3054 slid off runway 35L at Congonhas Airport, Sao Paulo, and crashed at high speed into a warehouse adjacent to a filling station and exploded. A total of 199 people aboard the plane and on the ground were killed. Aviation and engineering experts investigate to uncover what went wrong to cause such a catastrophe.

On 16 August 2005, West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 flew through a thunderstorm. Shortly after, the pilots reported that both engines had failed and a few minutes later the plane crashed into a cattle farm in Venezuela, killing all 152 passengers and eight crew on board. Aviation engineers and experts investigated and made the shocking discovery that there were no faults with the engines and pilo