Air Crash Investigation

Emerging from thick cloud cover, Corporate Airlines Flight 5966 crashes in the treetops on final approach to Kirksville, Missouri, and the twin -engine turbo prop is consumed by flames just a mile from the runway.

En route from Italy to the Dominican Republic, Independent Air 1851 is scheduled to refuel on a Portuguese island. But just minutes from the airport, the Boeing 707 somehow crashes into a mountaintop.

Shortly after takeoff, Japan Airlines 123 is rocked by a double explosion, and the pilots struggle to keep their crippled 747 in the sky. Slamming into a mountain, the ensuing disaster becomes the deadliest single aircraft accident in history.

After losing both engines, a turbo prop crashes in Papua New Guinea and investigators soon uncover a deadly flaw in an aircraft used around the world.

A Kazakh crew manage to land an uncontrollable aircraft and investigators must determine how a freshly-serviced plane was released with a fatal flaw.

When the cockpit window of Sichuan Airlines 8633 explodes, the crew somehow battles gale-force winds and oxygen deprivation to safely land the plane.

When a UK billionaire and his family die in an Australian seaplane crash, investigators uncover a minor maintenance issue with deadly consequences.

The plan to save a Bulgarian airliner hinges on convincing the violent hijackers that their demands have been met before the plane runs out of fuel.

An Amazon cargo plane nosedives into a swamp outside Houston.