Air Crash Investigations

September 8, 1989. High above the North Sea, an aging propeller plane tumbles from the sky. Investigators consider a string of possibilities; it takes two years to find the cause. It's something that's never been seen in previous investigations. It would lead to arrests half a world away and call into question the safety of one of the world's most important planes, Air Force One.

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