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On October 7, 2008, Qantas Flight 72 from Singapore Changi to Perth made an emergency landing at Learmonth airport near the town of Exmouth, Western Australia.
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Investigations into Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961, Italia Airlines Flight 870 and LAM Airlines Flight 470 reveal how sabotage can occur in many forms.
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In 1961, a United Nations DC-6 fatally is involved in a crash on the way to Ndola Airport from Zambia, which kills the Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjold.
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On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared while flying from Kuala Lumpur International Airport to Beijing Capital International Airport.
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Investigators conclude that a pilot deliberately wrecked his aircraft after LAM Mozambique Airlines Flight 470 nosedives and crashes in Namibia.
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The Empire State is home to natural wonders such as Niagara Falls and a huge city that is full of historic architecture and rich with stories of its people.
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The show's team flies over California's popular landmarks, providing viewers with a new look at Hearst Castle, Alcatraz Prison and the Golden Gate Bridge.
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The show's team flies over the islands, capturing footage of big-wave surfers, pineapple plantations and a live, close-up overhead look at an erupting volcano.
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Nebraska's desert plains have become the cornfields and cattle ranges that help feed the planet, and it has given the world Johnny Carson and Warren Buffett.
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A tour of America's most popular destinations from above includes the Badlands, Nantucket, the National Mall and more.
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The state defined by the Rocky Mountains has some of America's tallest peaks and highest sand dunes, and it is home to the U.S.' largest single-site brewery.
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The Buckeye State has served as a haven for Revolutionary War veterans and runaway slaves and the home of a bicycle shop that gave birth to something bigger.
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From the air, the Beehive State has an otherworldly beauty, with exotic geologic formations and the blinding white of the Bonneville Salt Flats.
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The striking landscapes of Wyoming have witnessed much history, from the expeditions of mountain men such as Jim Bridger to women's rights pioneers.
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The Sunflower State is the site of much history, from anti-slavery battles that predate the Civil War to some of America's first airplane factories.
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In a certain area of the San Francisco Bay lie hundreds of ships that were sunken on purpose because they were left behind by immigrants who were moving inland.
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The Mountain State, which John Denver called "almost heaven," with its fiercely independent spirit and towering peaks, is explored.

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An aerial exploration is taken of a massive region of grassland that stretches from the tip of Texas across ten states to the Canadian border.
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A flight over the Cotton State reveals much more than cotton fields, with a popular NASCAR speedway and the historic sites of many civil rights battles.
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Alaska lures adventurers with picture-postcard beauty and unspoiled wildernesses, but its lethal dangers have claimed the lives of those who were unaware.
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The state that is twice the size of Texas contains 16 of the U.S.' 20 tallest mountains and hosted North America's most powerful earthquake ever.
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An aerial tour of coastlines in America showcases the history of the country's borders.
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The hydraulics controlling the lower rudder of a Boeing 747 fail 35,000 feet above the Bering Sea, but its pilots maintain control of the plane.
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In Los Angeles, a controller sent a commuter plane onto a runway for takeoff just as a Boeing 737 was landing there, and their collision killed 37 people.
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One of an Airbus A-380's engines explodes soon after taking off from Singapore, and the pilots have to hold the plane together and return to the airport.
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On June 24, 1982, all the engines on British Airways Flight 009 mysteriously stop working, terrifying the passengers as the plane begins to fall from the sky.
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After a difficult landing in a severe thunderstorm, Air France Flight 358 skids off the runway and crashes, causing a fire to start in the left engine.
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A skilled captain manages to save his crippled aircraft and everyone on board, and then it's up to investigators to track down the microscopic culprit.
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On August 20, 2007, China Airlines Flight 120, a Boeing 737-800, caught fire and exploded after landing at Naha Airport in Okinawa, Japan.

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