TV Schedule for Smithsonian Channel USA - Pacific HD

Air Disasters Invisible Killer

During a storm, a strong gale slams Delta Airlines Flight 191 to the ground, killing most people on board.

Air Disasters Cleared for Disaster

An air traffic controller's mistake causes a Boeing 737 to land on a runway already occupied by another aircraft.

Air Disasters Falling From the Sky

A British Airways flight to Australia in 1982 crashes into the Indian Ocean.

Air Disasters Terror Over The Pacific

A massive explosion tears a hole in a 747 over Hawaii, and the trail of clues ultimately leads investigators to a catastrophic short circuit.

Air Disasters Disaster At Dutch Harbor

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

Air Disasters Deadly Departure

After a DC-8 cargo plane with only three working engines crashes on takeoff in Kansas City, investigators uncover a flaw in the pilots' training.

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 Guantánamo, 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 Under Fire

Three hundred people are killed in one of the deadliest aviation accidents of all time after a fire breaks out on board Saudia Flight 163.

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.

Hell Below America Fights Back

U.S. submarine skippers change the course of the WWII after entering the war and taking the fight to Japanese warships.

Hell Below Fatal Voyage

Submarine skipper Dick O'Kane and the USS Tang sink Japanese ships through 1944, until their reign is threatened.

Hell Below Destroyer Killer

In June of 1944, American skipper Sam Dealey leads a rescue mission in Borneo.

Hell Below The Wolfpack

Germany devastated Allied ships in the Atlantic, thanks to the new wolf pack tactic in 1940.

Hell Below Hitler's Revenge

The Nazi campaign to send U-boats across the Atlantic to the U.S. at the beginning of Operation Drumbeat.

Hell Below Atlantic Showdown

A 3-day clash between Nazi U-boats and Allied ships in March 1943 marks a major turning point in World War II.

Air Disasters Fatal Climb

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

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.