TV Schedule for Smithsonian Channel USA - Pacific

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 Hanging by a Thread

The roof of an Aloha Airlines 737 tears off the plane at 24,000 feet in the sky.

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 Missed Approach

A plane crash lands in Guam after losing sight of the airport in a storm.

Air Disasters Who's In Control

Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 stalls and crashes less than a mile from the runway while approaching Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.

Air Disasters Deadly Space

In the skies above the Mojave Desert, the VSS Enterprise accelerates toward the outer reaches of Earth's atmosphere, guided by test pilots; the aircraft breaks apart and falls from the sky, killing the flight's co-pilot.

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.

Air Disasters Deadly Delivery

UPS Airlines Flight 1354 clips the tops of trees and crashes into a hillside about one nautical mile short of the runway during final approach to Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport in Alabama.

Air Disasters Accident or Assassination

A plane carrying Mexico's interior minister crashes into Mexico City's financial district.

Air Disasters Lethal Turn

Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 crashes into mountainous woodlands while trying to land at Polonia International Airport in Medan, North Sumatra, in low visibility.

Air Disasters Storming Out

On its final approach to Charlotte, N.C., US Air Flight 1016 is engulfed in intense rain obstructing the view from the cockpit; the pilots abort the landing, but the aircraft crashes to earth, hurtling along a road and breaking apart.

Air Disasters The Invisible Plane

SAS Flight 686 takes off from Milan's Linate Airport and moments later collides with a Cessna on the runway.

Air Disasters Southern Storm

Pilots of Southern Airways Flight 242 must try to land on a Georgia highway after the engines die and the windshield shatters.

Air Disasters Bad Data

A billion-dollar Stealth Bomber crashes at a U.S. Air Force base-the costliest aviation disaster ever. Bad data misleads a charter flight into a Portuguese mountain, and conflicting alarms send a cutting-edge jetliner plunging into the Atlantic.

How Did They Fix That? Sky Rides

In the Alps of Switzerland, Mike helps an elite team install a new cable (rope) system on an iconic mountain gondola line, helps fix the world's steepest cogwheel railway track and explores mountaintop family farms only accessib.

Air Disasters Cracks in the System

Chalk's Ocean Airways flight 101 crashes just after take-off from Watson Island in Miami on December 19, 2005, killing 20 people.

Air Disasters The Final Blow

An Air Inter flight crashes into the Vosges Mountains while attempting to land killing most of the 96 passengers.

Air Disasters Out of Control

A simple error years prior causes the deadliest single-plane crash in history.

Air Disasters Subtle Incapacitation

The 2010 crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 sparks rumors of terrorism.

Air Disasters Fatal Distraction

Pilots of Eastern Airline Flight 401 try to determine why both landing-gear lights do not function on an L-1011, tragically distracting them.

Air Disasters Deadly Inclination

An Alitalia airliner crashes into a forested hillside just a few miles from a Zurich runway.

Air Disasters Fatal Friction

Human flaws cause three plane crashes in England, Colorado and Minnesota.