Air Crash Investigations

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.

A Scandinavian Airlines flight is mired in snow and slush at Stockholm airport. Despite the winter conditions, the aircraft takes off smoothly. But in less than two minutes, both engines fail. As the pilots try restarting them, the left engine erupts in flames. The plane has lost all power and is falling quickly and silently from the sky, hits the ground and breaks into three pieces.

On July 17 2007, TAM Airlines Flight 3054 slid off runway 35L at Congonhas Airport, Sao Paulo, and crashed at high speed into a warehouse adjacent to a filling station and exploded. A total of 199 people aboard the plane and on the ground were killed. Aviation and engineering experts investigate to uncover what went wrong to cause such a catastrophe.