All Episodes
Air Crash Chronicles — 191 episodes
The DC-10 Cargo Door Crisis: A Failure of Safety
When Trusting the Autopilot Turns Deadly
The Descent of Japan Airlines Flight 123
The Uberlingen Collision: Systems Failure and Human Tragedy
Baghdad missile strike and the pilot's son
DC-10 Barrel Rolls and Fatal Radar Errors
The Baghdad Missile and the Samina Sinking
Surviving Hidden Bombs and Lightning Strikes
Crisis in the Strait: The Tragedy of Flight 655
Fatal Human Choices Behind Two Massive Crashes
The Threat Behind the Cockpit Door
Human malice at thirty thousand feet
Liquid Bombs and the Hijacked Glider
Decision Under Fire: The Tragedy of Iran Air 655
The Baghdad Miracle: Landing Without Hydraulics
Four Routine Flights That Became Nightmares
The Fight for Flight 705
Hanging by a Thread: The Miracle of Aloha 243
The Mystery of EgyptAir 990: Accident or Crime
The Fatal Sightseeing Detour of Flight 706
The Miracle of Flight 243: Survival at 24,000 Feet
Hanging by a Thread: The Miracle of Aloha 243
Negligence in the Cockpit: The LAPA Flight 3142 Tragedy
The Fire Within: The Tragedy of Swissair Flight 111
The Ten Year Investigation: The Boeing 737 Rudder Mystery
The Fatal Gauge: The Crash of Tunisair Flight 1153
The 16th Inch That Downed Operation Babylift
Miracle in the Storm: The Crash of Flight 358
How three 1980s aviation mysteries were solved
How a Tiny Fragment Solved Lockerbie
How Counterfeit Bolts Downed Partnair Flight 394
The Deadliest Midair Collision in History
Tragedy Over the Amazon: The Legacy of Flight 1907
How Maintenance Negligence Crashed Adam Air 574
The Plunge of China Airlines Flight 006
The Forty Missing Screws of Flight 2574
The Scapegoat of the Munich Air Disaster
Tragedy on Runway 35L: The Flight 3054 Disaster
The Fatal Stall of West Caribbean Airways Flight 708
The Gander Disaster: Ice, Weight, and Controversy
The Fatal Descent of Nation Air Flight 2120
Flight 401: The Fatal Distraction of a Dimmed Light Bulb
The 22-Year Crack: The Mystery of Flight 611
The 747 That Flew Sideways
The Heavy Cost of Silence: The Fall of Flight 8509
The Blind Spot That Downed Flight 182
The Cargo Door Crisis: The Fight for Flight 811
Falling From the Sky: The China Airlines 006 Descent
Collision in the Amazon: The Legacy of Flight 1907
The Bojinka Test: The Bombing of Philippine Airlines 434
Tiny Details That Rewrote Aviation Safety
Hanging by a Thread: The Miracle of Aloha 243
A lost tail and a hammer attack
Collision at Hinton: The 1986 Canadian Rail Disaster
Fatal confusion between pilots and flight automation
Duct tape and a faulty cargo door
The Broken Blade: Nine Minutes of Defiance
The San Bernardino Runaway Train and Pipeline Disaster
When the human mind betrays technology
Fatal Blind Spots Behind Aviation Disasters
The Fatal Thread: The Investigation of Alaska Flight 261
How Corporate Pressure Causes Plane Crashes
Surviving the Aloha Blowout and Lightning Strike
Why comfort killed on ships and trains
Landing Planes Without Engines Or Steering
Why Flights 811 and 1420 Really Crashed
The Hijacking of Flight 8969: Showdown at Marseille
DHL Missile Strike and EgyptAir 990
The 12,319th Takeoff: The Final Flight of JAL 123
The Lightning Strike of Super Puma 56 Charlie
The Fatal Spark: The Investigation of Swissair Flight 111
Tiny errors that crashed massive planes
The Miracle of Flight 358: Survival in a Toronto Storm
The Gliding Miracle of Air Transat Flight 236
Flight 593: The Cost of a Fatal Family Outing
The Helderberg Disaster: Fire Over the Indian Ocean
The Fatal Flaw of Flight 301
Storms, terrorists, and the reversed rudder
Landing Planes Without Roofs or Hydraulics
The Jackscrew Conspiracy: The Tragic Failure of Alaska 261
Wrong Bolts Volcanic Ash and Hidden Ice
Duct Tape Wasps and Aviation Mysteries
How Human Ingenuity Saved Four Flights
A Hijacked Plane and a Fuel Crisis
The 1991 LAX Runway Collision
How Aviation Disasters Rewrote the Rules
The forensics of four catastrophic plane crashes
The Fatal Flaw of Japan Airlines Flight 123
Five Tragic Flights That Saved Aviation
How Microscopic Flaws Downed Massive Planes
How Tragic Crashes Built Safer Skies
Lightning strikes and the EgyptAir mystery
The Uberlingen Midair Collision and the Failure of Systems
The Bowling Alley: The Crash of American Airlines 1420
The Error Chain: The Crash of American Airlines 965
The Hidden Fire: The Tragedy of Swissair Flight 111
Showdown at Marseille: The Air France 8969 Hijacking
The Vincennes Incident: Tragedy Over the Persian Gulf
Instruments of Chaos: Lessons from Aviation Disasters
Gliding Jets, Nicotine Stains, and Human Error
Why Perfectly Good Planes Crash?
Safety Regulations Are Written In Blood
Why Pilots Fly Into Sucker Holes?
Missiles, Ghost Planes, and Silent Killers
How Panic and Polite Silence Crash Planes?
Cockpit Illusions and Fatal Muscle Memory
The Levee Landing and the Unplugged Radar
47 Missing Screws and a Loaded Gun
Crashing in Slush, Landing on a Levee
Frozen Wings and a Bag of Screws
Swissair’s Inferno and The Atlantic Glider
The Hammer Attack and the Child Pilot
Burning Tires and a Cockpit Gunman
Stripped Jack Screws and Silent Engines
Runaway Freight
Wrestling a 747 and Linate's Blind Collision
Munich’s Slush and a Rogue 747 Rudder
A Snapped Propeller and a Fatal Typo
The Sucked-Out Captain and Snapped Propeller
The Vincennes Shootdown and Express Samina Sinking
Aviation Safety Regulations Written in Blood
The Iran Air Shootdown and Project Bojinka
Missing Rivets and the Runaway Train
How Hierarchy and Grammar Crash Planes?
A Deadly Keystroke and a Missing Mayday
Fatal Errors: Investigations into Aviation's Darkest Hours
Ice Pilot Oversight and Automation
The Light Bulb That Crashed Flight 401
Critical Failure: The Air Midwest and Southern Airways Tragedies
Vanishing Points: The Mechanics of Aviation Disasters
Hidden Flaws That Grounded Airplanes
The Forgotten Switch and Ghost Plane
Why the US Navy Shot Down Flight 655
Pilot Sucked Out at 17000 Feet
Finding the Tiny Piece That Solved 747 Crashes
Mechanical Failures and Fatal Descents: The Fate of Flight 101
Vanished in the Clouds: Tragic Lessons in Aviation History
Deadliest Aviation Failures of 1985
When Automation Fought The Pilots
The Ghost in the Machine: Tragedy of the A320
Disabled Alarms and Fatal Error Chains
Crashes That Built Modern Flight Safety
Flight 797 Wires and Aviation Safety Rules
Flight 006 and the Ghost Plane Switch
The Boeing 737 Rudder Mystery
Descent into Chaos: Stories of Aviation Survival and Safety
Air France 358 and The Ghost Plane
Volcanic Ash to Broken Cockpit Culture
Hidden Fires and Automation Blind Spots
The decade-long 737 rudder mystery
Aviation Safety Forged in Three Tragedies
Fatal Distractions: The Lessons of Jumbo Jet Disasters
Cargo Doors Wasps And Pilot Error
Descent into Disaster: Stories of Aviation Survival and Loss
Silent Deep Sea Wreckage Reveals Air Disaster Secrets
Missing Grease Killed Alaska Flight 261
Swiss Cheese Aviation Failures and Checklists
The Crosswind and The Forgotten Switch
Fatal Errors: Investigations into Flight 296 and USAir 1493
When the Cockpit Fails: The Struggle with Aviation Automation
Flight 811 Cargo Door Catastrophe
Helios 522 and the 737 Ghost Planes
Gimli Glider and the Haunted Autopilot
Three Crashes That Changed Aviation Safety
Counterfeit Bolts Caused Partnair Tail Loss
Counterfeit Bolts and Missing Radar Killed Hundreds
Fighting Total Control Loss With Engine Thrust
Three Disasters That Wrote Aviation Rules
A 22-Year-Old Fatal Patch
The Golden Clues That Break Aviation Cases
Aviation's Worst Failures and Best Triumphs
Counterfeit Bolts and Tiny Maintenance Mistakes
Bogus Bolts and the Invisible Flaw
Deadliest Midair Collision and Hidden Cracks
Double Engine Failure: Hudson and Heathrow
Regional Airline Tragedies Crossair and Colgan Air
Automation, and Human Error
When Automation Fights the Pilot
Pilot Error and the Fatal Stall of 3407
Egypt Air 990, Air Canada 797, and Flash 604
Sully’s Skill Versus The Automation Trap
Wrong Parts and Disaster Chains
United 811 Cargo Door Disaster Coverup
Lying Fuel Gauge Caused Ocean Ditching
Gauges Cannibalized Parts Catastrophic Flight Errors
Fire and System Failures
Crashes That Forced Modern Flight Safety
Two Deadly Flaws of the ATR-72
Disasters of KAL 007 and Air Ontario 1363
Deadly Failure Chains Two Aviation Disasters
The Silent Warning and Deadly Ice