TV Schedule for Smithsonian Channel USA HD

Aerial America Outdoor Adventures

A cross-country flight over the nation's mountains, beaches and national parks; visiting other sites that attract adventurers and tourists.

Aerial America Michigan

A flying tour of Michigan's cultural landmarks, including Motown, the Great Lakes, the automobile industry and more.

Aerial America Southern California

A soaring tour over Southern California explores the stunning beaches, vast deserts, sprawling city and unique culture.

Aerial America Man-Made Marvels

A coast-to-coast tour over America's man-made structures, old and new; the Statue of Liberty and the Golden Gate Bridge.

Aerial America Virginia

Taking an aerial tour of Virginia.

Aerial America Connecticut

A high-flying tour of Connecticut; exploring the safe harbors, buildings and rich maritime history; the home state of Mark Twain, PT Barnum and Katharine Hepburn; the exclusive Gold Coast, the Thimble Islands and the historic cities.

Aerial America Tennessee

From battlefields where hundreds died to Beale Street where musical legends were born.

Aerial America Vermont

Northern state's green forests; red-painted barns and sugar maples.

Aerial America Arkansas

An aerial view of Arkansas, where settlers' westward journeys began and the scene of Bonnie and Clyde's most serious crime; a view of the land of raging rivers, vast wilderness and legends of the Wild West.

Air Disasters Under Fire

Experts investigate the Saudia Flight 163 tragedy, which killed 287 passengers and 14 crew members following an in-flight fire.

Disasters Engineered Manned Missions

Trace the chain of events that led to a deadly explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig and unleashed the largest marine oil spill in history; see the failed part that caused the NASA Challenger Space Shuttle to explode seconds after liftoff.

Disasters Engineered Chemical Blasts

Experts examine how the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and the Bhopal gas tragedy happened; they also explore the consequences and how they could have been avoided.

Air Disasters Grand Canyon

United Airlines Flight 718 and Trans World Airlines Flight 2 collide midair over the Grand Canyon in Arizona, killing all 128 people on both aircraft in 1956.

Disasters Engineered Chemical Blasts

Experts examine how the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and the Bhopal gas tragedy happened; they also explore the consequences and how they could have been avoided.

Air Disasters Fatal Climb

A commercial airliner crashes minutes after taking off from an airport in Bucharest causing suspicions to rise.

Disasters Engineered Chemical Blasts

Experts examine how the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and the Bhopal gas tragedy happened; they also explore the consequences and how they could have been avoided.

Air Disasters Explosive Touchdown

After touching down, a Taiwanese commuter plane is rocked by a massive explosion, but investigators find no evidence of a bomb on board.

Air Disasters Atlantic Ditching

A helicopter carrying offshore drilling workers crashes into the ocean, leading to an investigation that reveals a fatal flaw in the chopper's design.

Air Disasters Flying Blind

A cleaning crew makes a careless error while cleaning a Boeing 757, affecting the plane's computer system and causing it to crash into the Pacific Ocean.

Air Disasters Blown Away

The investigation into the 2014 crash of a TransAsia flight uncovers a systemic problem with the airline.

Air Disasters Perilous Payload

Three planes fatally out of balance force investigators to question every calculation; it's a flight risk that's entirely preventable, and yet repeated disasters reconfirm the need for critical backup systems.

Air Disasters Out of Sight

In one of the world's busiest airports, a large passenger plane crashes into a smaller one; a 1986 midair crash between planes near Los Angeles brings attention to disturbing congestion at airports.

Air Disasters Phantom Strike

In September 2006, a brand-new legacy business jet collides with a Boeing 737 over the Amazon forest.

Air Disasters Ripped Apart

Design innovations evolve as a result of terrible air disasters due to pressurization failure or explosive decompression.