Air Crash Investigations

On 25 September 1978, PSA Flight 182's Boeing 727 collided into a private Cessna 172 jet while approaching Lindbergh Field and crashed into a residential area in San Diego. It was was the biggest airline disaster at the time in American history, killing all 135 people on board both aircrafts, as well as another 7 people on the ground. Were there technical faults which led to this disaster, or was

On 11 July 1991, shortly after taking-off from Jeddah's King Abdulaziz International Airport, Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 suffered an in-flight fire. The crew unsuccessfully tried to return to the airport, the plane breaking up within sight of the runway. The plane was carrying 247 Nigerian pilgrims and 14 crew who all perished in the accident. Aviation experts work to determine what caused the fi

On February 8, 1986 a calm trip through the Rocky Mountains ends in disaster, when a VIA Rail train slams head-on into an enormous freight train. How did the two trains wind up on the same piece of track? An inquiry makes shocking discoveries about the men who run the freight trains in Canada.

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.