Air Disasters

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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