2024-09-27
Under the command of Admiral Nimitz in 1943, America advances towards Japan, engaging in a new series of island-hopping invasions through the Central Pacific. But a ferocious and inauspicious start at the Tarawa atoll forces war strategists to redesign their plan from top to bottom, sparking new innovations and breaking new barriers. (Repeat).
After a disastrous start, Admiral Chester Nimitz's island-hopping campaign across the Central Pacific has gained momentum and led his men to their largest and most important target yet: Saipan in the Mariana Islands. The nearly month-long battle on this island featured mountain sieges, Banzai attacks, white-knuckled dogfights, and escalating tensions between the U.S. Army and Marines. (Repeat).
While an attack on Japan from inland Asia stalls, the U.S. island-hopping campaign gains momentum. (Repeat).
March 1945. Japan feels the pressure coming from all fronts-ships from the sea, boots on the ground, and fire from the sky. The Japanese Empire has been weakened, but there is no sign of surrender. Through rarely seen color combat footage and frontline stories, witness the American invasions of Peleliu, the Philippines, and Iwo Jima, in addition to the war's first organized kamikaze attacks and th
The Allies celebrate the end of the war in Europe, but the Pacific War rages on. Okinawa, the last stop in the island-hopping campaign to the Japanese mainland, is absolute havoc, with Japan sending an unprecedented wave of kamikaze attacks to destroy Allied warships. Meanwhile, Australians liberate Indonesians from three years of oppressive Japanese occupation in Borneo. Witness the final battles
By the summer of 1945, the Allies are reducing Japan to ashes, but there's no sign of surrender. While a ground invasion seems imminent, a casualty estimate of U.S. soldiers in the hundreds of thousands leads President Truman to a decision that will not only end the war, but forever change the course of warfare. Color combat footage and witness accounts of the atomic bombings provide rare insights
An MD-82 crash lands in Arkansas during a severe thunderstorm, but investigators believe weather was not the main reason for the accident. (Repeat).
History's most terrifying air disasters, and the investigations that followed, are revisited and reexamined. (Repeat).
An investigation of the 2010 crash of Polish Air Force Tupolev Tu-154M, which killed everyone on board, including Polish president Lech Kaczynski. (Repeat).
The story of China Airlines Flight 006, which almost crashed into the Pacific Ocean after experiencing engine trouble. The investigation of the incident detailed how jet lag and lack of sleep can impact pilots. (Repeat).
A Boeing 757 takes off from Washington Dulles International Airport en route to Los Angeles. In minutes, hijackers storm the cockpit and turn the plane back toward the nation's capital and straight into the Pentagon. A total of 189 people are dead, the fuselage has been vaporized, and investigators are under tremendous pressure to determine how this could have happened. (Repeat).
The pilots of an Air Transat Airbus needs to glide the plane to safety after it starts leaking fuel over the Atlantic. (Repeat).
A new season of air catastrophes, featuring crashes in the Himalayas, the Atlantic Ocean, an Argentine desert, and more. (Repeat).
It's a routine takeoff on an ordinary morning in 2015 when Germanwings Flight 9525 leaves Barcelona for Dusseldorf. But something goes horribly wrong over the French Alps. The plane begins rapidly descending and air traffic control gets no response from the cockpit. Everyone's worst fears are realized when the plane is found smashed to pieces in the mountains. All passengers and crew aboard are de
With communication mix-ups and personality clashes in the cockpit, three flights end in tragedy leaving investigators to unravel what went wrong. (Repeat).
A Superjet slams into a mountain, killing everyone on board. (Repeat).
Recalling the 1987 crash of South African Airways Flight 295 in the Indian Ocean, killing all aboard. (Repeat).
What caused Garuda Flight 200 to slam to the ground and careen off the runway in Yogyakarta, Indonesia? Was it a powerful downdraft? Was there something wrong with the wing flaps? Or did a baffling decision by the pilot lead to the death of 21 people? Join us as we investigate the crash of March 7, 2007, through actual video captured at the scene and testimony from a heroic passenger who survived
The 1987 crash of Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 near Cayucos, Cal., is recalled. The last words captured by the cockpit recorder were those of a former USAir employee believed to be responsible for the tragedy: "I'm the problem." The recorder also picked up gunfire prior to the crash. (Repeat).
When a twin-engine jet careens off the runway in Kentucky, investigators must determine why the plane failed to take off. (Repeat).