Air Disasters - Season 15

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Kathmandu Descent

1 - Kathmandu Descent

Air Date: September 6, 2020

Witness the final minutes of PIA Flight 268 and discover why it crashed into a mountain just minutes from landing.

Impossible Pitch

2 - Impossible Pitch

Air Date: September 13, 2020

Witness the doomed flight of a West Air Sweden jet and see how the failure of a single instrument led to catastrophe.

Explosive Touchdown

3 - Explosive Touchdown

Air Date: September 20, 2020

Most passengers relax after their plane touches down, but when Uni Air Flight 873 landed, that's when the terror began.

Taxiway Turmoil

4 - Taxiway Turmoil

Air Date: September 27, 2020

Follow the investigation to see how a DC-9 ended up on the wrong runway and in the path of an oncoming 727.

Runway Breakup

5 - Runway Breakup

Air Date: October 4, 2020

Landing on a Caribbean island in a severe tropical storm, a Colombian airliner crashes short of the runway. Investigators need to find out why.

Icy Descent

6 - Icy Descent

Air Date: October 11, 2020

Investigators are stumped when a turboprop slams into an Argentine desert, and it's a microscopic filament that provides the first tangible clue.

Atlantic Ditching

7 - Atlantic Ditching

Air Date: October 18, 2020

A helicopter carrying offshore oil workers crashes into the ocean off the coast of Newfoundland and a far-reaching investigation reveals a fatal flaw.

No Warning

8 - No Warning

Air Date: October 25, 2020

Investigators are stumped when a turboprop crashes into an Indonesian mountaintop.

Cockpit Killer

9 - Cockpit Killer

Air Date: November 1, 2020

When an African airliner mysteriously crashes, Namibian investigators rule out a host of possible causes before reaching a chilling conclusion.

Stormy Cockpit

10 - Stormy Cockpit

Air Date: November 8, 2020

A brand-new 737 falls from the sky over West Africa during a major storm, but investigators eventually discover weather had nothing to do with it.