1. Pacific Ditching (Transair Flight 810)
The pilots of a crashed cargo jet believe they lost both engines. But when the wreckage emerges from the Pacific, the evidence tells another story.
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2. Running on Empty (Air Tahoma Flight 185)
An Air Tahoma cargo plane is within sight of a Cincinnati runway when both engines flame out and the turboprop crashes into a golf course.
3. Power Struggle
Power Struggle: Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 crashed in to the Java Sea after a hard left bank, revealing deadly defects in the investigation that followed.
4. Second Thoughts (Luxair Flight 9642)
Amid heavy fog and a rushed approach, Luxair Flight 50 falls out of the sky just a few miles short of Luxembourg airport.
5. Powerless Plunge (Loganair Flight 670A)
Just moments after takeoff, a Loganair cargo flight from Edinburgh loses both engines and crashes into the icy North Sea
6. Cabin Chaos
Cabin Chaos: After a Chinese airplane lands at a top-secret US Air Force base, the search is on for the cause of a deadly rollercoaster ride in the sky.
7. Deadly Climb (Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105)
It's 1985-the deadliest year in civilian aviation-and a DC-9 commuter plane crashes just seconds after takeoff from Milwaukee.
8. Firebomber Down
Firebomber Down: A C-130 firebomber crashes while battling an epic Australian wildfire. And ATSB investigators must determine the cause within an active fire zone.
9. Collision Catastrophe (2002 Überlingen mid-air collision)
German investigators are stumped when two planes collide while flying in the skies over southern Germany.
10. Fatal Test Flight (Airborne Express Flight 827)
When a cargo plane test flight ends in disaster, investigators uncover a series of failures that doomed the DC-8 before it got off the ground.
11. No Exit (US Air 1493)
Following a catastrophic runway collision at LAX, passengers on USAIR Flight 1493 struggle to escape the burning plane.