Air Crash Investigations

March 10th, 1989 - Flight 1363 prepares for take-off. The jet struggles to get airborne, starts shaking violently and less than a minute later, crashes into the woods. Emergency crews rush to the site in an attempt to save passengers from the wreckage. Investigators must now uncover what led the plane to crash, but will they determine who was to blame?

A continental flight is approaching airport, but as the pilots lower their landing gear and extend the flaps to slow the plane, the control column suddenly starts to shake. The captain struggles to keep the plane flying but the out-of-control aircraft suddenly plummets towards the ground and crashes into a suburban home. Investigators work to try and determine what caused this aviation disaster.

Just minutes after taking off an Airbus collides with a flock of birds causing both engines to lose all thrust. The crew desperately tries to restart their engines, but can't. Searching desperately for a place to land, the captain warns passengers and crew to brace for impact and lands the plane in the icy waters of the Hudson River.

On 23 November, 1996, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 was hijacked by three Ethiopians seeking political asylum. The pilot attempted to trick the hijackers by secretly changing the flight route demanded. But after a struggle and despite the pilots heroic efforts, the plane crashes in the Indian Ocean near Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125 of the 175 passengers and crew on board.

December 7, 1987: En route to San Francisco from LAX, Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight #1771 is cruising high above the Californian countryside. Apart from some mild turbulence, the routine regional flight is uneventful. That is, until the pilots hear gunshots in the cabin. They report the gunfire to the tower and moments later, the aircraft falls into a steep dive and crashes into a remote field

May 24, 1988: Flying through a violent tropical thunderstorm, TACA Flight #110 begins its final descent towards New Orleans when both engines fail and the plane begins dropping from the sky. The pilots restart both engines but almost immediately they overheat forcing the pilots to shut them down. Without power for the second time and falling fast, they consider ditching the plane in a canal but ai

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

On 12 December 1985, a charter flight carrying the 101st Airborne Division on Arrow Air Flight 1285, stalled and crashed just seconds after taking off from Gander International Airport in Canada while en route to Fort Campbell, Kentucky. All 256 people aboard the aircraft died. Terrorists initially claimed responsibility for the crash, but the Canadian Aviation Safety Board found that this wasn't

On April 7, 1994 the crew of the Federal Express DC-10 freighter faced a horrifying and violent mid-air attack from an off duty Fed-Ex employee who had planned to kill them and crash the plane. In their struggle to control both the plane and the attacker, the pilots perform incredible feats, in order to save their lives.