Air Crash Investigations

August 2, 1985. By the time the crew of Delta Airlines Flight 191 reached the threshold of Dallas Fort Worth Airport, they'd already diverted around two separate storms. When the plane enters a third storm front, it is hit by powerful winds that slam the plane to the ground. 136 people die. The crash helps scientists overcome a notorious weather danger to airplanes, the microburst.

July 23, 1983. It's a calm summer evening, when an inexplicable failure strikes, causing the loss of two engines on a brand new passenger jet midway between Montreal and Edmonton. Powerless at 12,000 meters altitude, the pilot needs all his skill, and a little bit of luck, to get his plane to the airport. But his saga doesn't end there because the runway he thought was abandoned is anything but.

Investigate how an explosion ripped a gaping hole in the cabin of a brand-new plane and again two years later, but with deadly consequences.