TV Schedule for Smithsonian Channel USA - Pacific HD
Monday, May 11th TV listings for Smithsonian Channel USA - Pacific HD
Air Disasters Deadly Confusion
JFK Jr. disappears on the way to Martha's Vineyard; a captain loses his bearings and crashes over the Red Sea; pilots crash a plane over Indonesia.
Air Disasters Hudson River Runway
US Airways Flight 1549 suffers a bird strike with a flock of Canada geese, causing both engines to fail.
Air Disasters Deadly Detour
The crew of a commuter flight over France makes a sightseeing detour that sets off a deadly chain of events.
Air Disasters Icy Descent
After experiencing icing conditions, a turboprop slams into an Argentine desert; investigators are mystified by what they uncover.
Air Disasters System Breakdown
Five aviation disasters and the changes they have forced air-traffic controllers to make.
Air Disasters Tragedy on the Potomac
On 13 January 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 stalls at 300 feet altitude, strikes a road bridge and crashes into the Potomac River, killing 78 people.
Air Disasters Missing Over New York
Avianca Flight 52 is delayed numerous times by bad weather en route; it is dangerously low on fuel as it attempts a landing at New York City.
Air Disasters Massacre Over the Mediterranean
On June 27, 1980, Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 crashed into the Tyrrhenian Sea near the island of Ustica, Italy; all 81 people on board were killed.
Air Disasters Dangerous Approach
A Colorado commuter flight crashes five miles short of the runway and the reasons why rock the airline industry.
Air Disasters River Runway
Pilots attempt to land their Boeing 737 in an Indonesian river after losing their engines and electrical power.
Air Disasters Disaster at Tenerife
Two 747s collide on the runway of a small airport in the Canary Islands, resulting in history's deadliest air crash.
Disasters Engineered Construction Catastrophe
A towering inferno that killed 72 residents becomes Britain's deadliest fire; a pedestrian bridge collapses in Florida over eight lanes of traffic, killing six people; how can fatal design flaws happen in such important constructions?
America's Secret D-Day Disaster
The Allied forces' top-secret rehearsal for D-Day that went wrong.
A retelling of the D-Day invasion and its critical naval operation involving an armada of diverse and ingenious vessels.
How the legendary "Dambuster" bomber squadron of WWII fooled Nazi Germany into believing the Allied invasion was going to be at Calais, rather than Normandy, and went to on to destroy Hitler's super weapons.
The Battle of Normandy: 85 Days in Hell
On D-Day, Allied forces land in Normandy, France, to beat back the German troops and liberate France; previously unseen archival footage captures the 85-day struggle to liberate Europe and includes rare images of the battle itself.
Liberation: D-Day to Berlin France
In 1944, the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe brings the hope of freedom and the devastation of war to the people of France.
Liberation: D-Day to Berlin Belgium and the Netherlands
New colorized footage and testimony reveal the cost paid by the Allies and civilians to free Belgium and the Netherlands from Nazi occupation.
Liberation: D-Day to Berlin Hitler Strikes Back
In late 1944, Hitler forces the Americans into their biggest battle of the war when he launches a surprise attack into liberated Belgium.
Liberation: D-Day to Berlin Germany
New colorized footage and testimony reveals the cost of victory, the aftermath of war and the liberation of the camps and the destruction of Germany.
Air Disasters Fight to the Death
On 18 June 1972, British European Airways Flight 548 stalls and crashes in a field near Staines shortly after takeoff from London Heathrow Airport, killing all 118 people on board.
Air Disasters Terror Over Michigan
After a Boeing 727's near-fatal nosedive over Michigan, investigators risk their own lives to determine what caused the aircraft to lose control.
Air Disasters Explosive Proof
The inside story of one of history's most infamous and complex investigations: the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800.
Air Disasters Cutting Corners
The 2000 crash of an Alaska Airlines plane just off the California coast leads to a disturbing discovery about the company's cost-cutting procedures.