TV Schedule for Smithsonian Channel USA - Pacific
Wednesday, July 30th TV listings for Smithsonian Channel USA - Pacific
Mighty Cruise Ships Viking Long Ship Gefjon
Take a river tour through some of Europe's greatest cities--Budapest, Vienna, and Amsterdam--on Viking Longship Gefjon.
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.
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.
How Did They Fix That? UPS Worldport
Mike Davidson goes to the biggest automated package sorting facility in the world - UPS Worldport in Louisville, Kentucky. Two million packages go through here every day.
How Did They Fix That? Heavy Cargo Express
A ride through Eastern Europe aboard heavy-hauling trains shows the logistical and mechanical challenges of making a multimillion-dollar cargo delivery.
How Did They Fix That? Super Stallion Helicopter
Mike joins the U.S. Marines' Heavy Haulers helicopter squadron and gets inside their battle to keep a fleet of souped-up Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion choppers flying as they prepare for intense war games in the desert and mountains.
How Did They Fix That? Aquarius Reef Base
Diving into retrofits on the world's only underwater habitat, where NASA astronauts train for space missions; Mike joins a crack repair team who breathe new life into this oceanic environment after a global pandemic shut it down.
How Did They Fix That? Euro Hauler
Following a million-dollar freight run across four European countries and meeting the drivers, engineers and maintenance teams who keep the train running.
How Did They Fix That? US Coast Guard: Safeguarding The Seas
Mike helps fix the vessels that the U.S. Coast Guard use to keep the oceans safe; he replaces key parts of ship engines, removes a large crane from a buoy tender, and fixes a helicopter for a critical exercise.
How Did They Build That? Curved & Cables
A new performance center with a tent-like glass-and-steel lobby tests engineers in Kansas City; two twisting apartment towers make heads spin in Ontario.
Witness amazing buildings, bridges, lifts, and other structures that pushed structural concrete engineering to the edge.
How Did They Build That? Radical & Resplendent
Exploring the design and engineering stories behind D.C.'s Museum of African American History, the Montreal Tower and the Equinor building in Oslo.
How Did They Build That? Elevated & Elegant
Traveling from Canada to Belgium to the Southern U.S. to examine an eye-popping school, museum and railway station and reveal how they were built.
Witness amazing buildings, bridges, lifts, and other structures that pushed structural concrete engineering to the edge.
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.