Smithsonian TV Guide

An Airbus A330 with a major fuel leak caused by a maintenance mistake runs out of fuel after the pilots ignore the warnings from its centralized monitor.

Experts examine the devastating Aberfan mine disaster in Wales and the Brumadinho dam disaster in Brazil.

At the U.S. Aviation Weather Center in Kansas City, meteorologists demonstrate how the latest weather information is transmitted to pilots in the air.

A commuter plane with 10 aboard left Zurich, Switzerland but crashed two minutes after takeoff, and investigators had little concrete information to go on.

A cargo plane crashes just moments after taking off from Miami, and it will take an anonymous tip to determine what went wrong.

When three flight crews decide to improvise their final approach, they choose to rely on instinct instead of the rules, which will end badly for them.

A ferry traveling between islands off the coast of Greece is placed on autopilot with no crew member assigned to watch the controls, and it strikes a reef.

As pilots prepare to land a commuter plane in Houston, it suddenly dives and its left wing falls apart, and the resulting crash kills everyone on board.

On February 16th, 2000, Emery Worldwide Flight 17, a DC-8 domestic cargo flight, crashed into a salvage yard after taking off from Sacramento Mather Airport.

One of the worst air disasters in the history of South Korea is examined as an analytical look is taken at the final moments on board Air China Flight 129.

When Spanair Flight 5022 tries to takeoff, it immediately stops and swerves to the right, resulting in a crash that kills 154 people out of the 172 on board.

A team of experts examines some of the world's worst air disasters by going through official reports, transcripts and interviews of the people who endured it.

A compilation of true stories are presented about dangerous situations where the trust between pilots and their airplanes breaks down.

Video footage captures the final moments of ExecuFlight 1526 as experts try to determine why the plane crashed into a residential neighborhood.

On May 9, 2012, a Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 airliner took off from Jakarta's Halim Airport on a demonstration tour in Indonesia and crashed on Mount Salak.

When a Boeing 747 fills with smoke as it flies over the Indian Ocean the crew locates the fire, which is in the cargo area, and manages to get the doors open.

Using official reports, transcripts and interviews with people who were on the plane when something went wrong, officials can now determine what happened.

Two Boeing 747 passenger jets collided on the runway at Tenerife North Airport making it the worst aviation accident of all time, because of a misunderstanding.