Air Crash Investigations

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

Making a routine one-hour journey from Berlin to Zurich, Crossair Flight 3597 is one of the last planes scheduled to land before the airport shuts down for the night. But just minutes before landing the pilots cannot find the runway and crashes into the treetops.

Approaching the end of its ten-hour journey from Beijing, a British Airways flight is inexplicably crippled by double engine failure. While the plane narrowly misses the buildings and radio towers in its path, it crashes on the tarmac, ripping off the engines and landing gear. Aviation experts and engineers investigate to uncover exactly what caused this near catastrophe.