Air Crash Investigations

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.

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.