TV Schedule for Smithsonian Channel USA - Pacific HD

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 Behind Closed Doors

A design fault leads to an explosion on a DC-10 and two years later the same design fault causes another tragedy.

Air Disasters Runaway Train

A freight train carrying an excess of cargo loses its brakes while descending a mountain causing it to gain speed and derail into a neighborhood killing several people.

Air Disasters Caught on Tape

The dashcam of a passing car captures stunning footage of the final moments of a Taiwanese commuter aircraft as it banks steeply, clips an elevated highway and nosedives into the river; investigators find no signs of pre-impact malfunction.

Air Disasters Cabin Catastrophe

A Boeing 737 is rocked by a midair explosion that challenges its pilots and nearly ejects a passenger out of a blown-out window.

Air Disasters High Rise Catastrophe

A large cargo jet slices into an apartment complex in Amsterdam and reveals a potentially lethal problem threatening every 747 in the sky.

Air Disasters Ghost Plane

Investigators try to solve the mystery of a plane whose captain and co-pilot are missing.

Air Disasters Double Trouble

Trans-Air Service Flight 671 suffers an in-flight separation of its two right engines while en route to Kano, Nigeria, forcing the pilots to make an emergency landing at Istres-Le Tubé Air Base in France.

Air Disasters Borderline Tactics

When a DC-8 cargo jet crashes on approach to a U.S. naval base in Guantanamo, investigators wonder if Cuba played a role.

Air Disasters Seconds From Touchdown

Facing a cascade of failures and a fire on board, a turboprop is just seconds from landing when it flips over and crashes.

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 Deadly Myth

The crash of a commuter flight to Detroit leads investigators to a cause the industry has known about for years.

Air Disasters Terror over the Pacific

On the 24th of February 1989, part of the right-side fuselage of United Airlines Flight 811 rips off, ejecting nine people from the aircraft and causing explosive decompression; the flight later lands safely at Honolulu without any more loss of life.

Air Disasters Disaster At Dutch Harbor New

While landing at a notoriously tricky Alaskan island airport, the pilots of a twin turboprop can't stop their plane.

Air Disasters Edge of Disaster

Atlantic Airways Flight 670 careened off the runway and became engulfed in flames.