Season 5

Episode Guide

Fight To The Death

S5 E1
Can a generation gap actually cause a catastrophic air disaster? Witness the story of BEA Flight 548.

Speed Trap

S5 E2
Join NTSB and military experts as they work together to uncover how a fighter jet could collide with a civilian flight.

Lost in Translation

S5 E3
Flap malfunction? Cell phone interference? A heavy sedative? What brought down Crossair Flight 498?

Tragedy on the Potomac

S5 E4
See how extreme conditions, warm-weather pilots, and poor decisions conspired to bring down a Boeing 737 in 1982.

Queens Catastrophe

S5 E5
Follow investigators as they race to determine if a November 2001 Queens plane crash was an accident or act of terror.

Into the Eye of the Storm

S5 E6
See how hurricane hunters stay airborne despite faulty radar, a failed engine, and a category 5 monster.

Massacre Over the Mediterranean

S5 E7
Was it a terrorist bomb or a warplane missile that blew Flight 870 out of the sky? The debate rages on, decades later.

Imperfect Pitch

S5 E8
Could a simple coat of paint bring down one of the world's most complex planes?

Getting Out Alive

S5 E9
Did you know 80% of all air accidents are survivable? See how the aviation industry is working to raise that number.

Terror In Paradise

S5 E10
See how a hellish flight in a Polynesian paradise revealed a hidden threat lurking at airports around the world.

Titanic In The Sky

S5 E11
The world's largest commercial airliner is coming apart in midair. Fortunately, the pilots are keeping it all together.