TV Schedule for Smithsonian Channel USA - Pacific

How Did They Build That? Heights & Balance

A 1.2-million-square-foot office building balances precariously on a 39-foot wide base in Chicago; a building named Pterodactyl lands on top of a Los Angeles parking garage; the world's longest suspension footbridge.

How Did They Build That? Heights & Balance

A 1.2-million-square-foot office building balances precariously on a 39-foot wide base in Chicago; a building named Pterodactyl lands on top of a Los Angeles parking garage; the world's longest suspension footbridge.

How Did They Build That? Heights & Balance

A 1.2-million-square-foot office building balances precariously on a 39-foot wide base in Chicago; a building named Pterodactyl lands on top of a Los Angeles parking garage; the world's longest suspension footbridge.

How Did They Build That? Heights & Balance

A 1.2-million-square-foot office building balances precariously on a 39-foot wide base in Chicago; a building named Pterodactyl lands on top of a Los Angeles parking garage; the world's longest suspension footbridge.

How Did They Build That? Heights & Balance

A 1.2-million-square-foot office building balances precariously on a 39-foot wide base in Chicago; a building named Pterodactyl lands on top of a Los Angeles parking garage; the world's longest suspension footbridge.

How Did They Build That? Heights & Balance

A 1.2-million-square-foot office building balances precariously on a 39-foot wide base in Chicago; a building named Pterodactyl lands on top of a Los Angeles parking garage; the world's longest suspension footbridge.

How Did They Fix That? Extreme Heights: Rope Access Repairs

Mike pushes himself to the limit to work with an elite team of high ropes techs on fixes hundreds of feet in the air. Starting 45 stories up on the side of a skyscraper, then working and dangling on the edge.

How Did They Fix That? Extreme Heights: Rope Access Repairs

Mike pushes himself to the limit to work with an elite team of high ropes techs on fixes hundreds of feet in the air. Starting 45 stories up on the side of a skyscraper, then working and dangling on the edge.

How Did They Fix That? Extreme Heights: Rope Access Repairs

Mike pushes himself to the limit to work with an elite team of high ropes techs on fixes hundreds of feet in the air. Starting 45 stories up on the side of a skyscraper, then working and dangling on the edge.

How Did They Fix That? Extreme Heights: Rope Access Repairs

Mike pushes himself to the limit to work with an elite team of high ropes techs on fixes hundreds of feet in the air. Starting 45 stories up on the side of a skyscraper, then working and dangling on the edge.

How Did They Build That? Heights & Balance

A 1.2-million-square-foot office building balances precariously on a 39-foot wide base in Chicago; a building named Pterodactyl lands on top of a Los Angeles parking garage; the world's longest suspension footbridge.

How Did They Build That? Heights & Balance

A 1.2-million-square-foot office building balances precariously on a 39-foot wide base in Chicago; a building named Pterodactyl lands on top of a Los Angeles parking garage; the world's longest suspension footbridge.

How Did They Build That? Heights & Balance

A 1.2-million-square-foot office building balances precariously on a 39-foot wide base in Chicago; a building named Pterodactyl lands on top of a Los Angeles parking garage; the world's longest suspension footbridge.

How Did They Build That? Heights & Balance

A 1.2-million-square-foot office building balances precariously on a 39-foot wide base in Chicago; a building named Pterodactyl lands on top of a Los Angeles parking garage; the world's longest suspension footbridge.

How Did They Build That? Heights & Balance

A 1.2-million-square-foot office building balances precariously on a 39-foot wide base in Chicago; a building named Pterodactyl lands on top of a Los Angeles parking garage; the world's longest suspension footbridge.

Air Disasters Eleven Deadly Seconds

Solving the crash of China Airlines Flight 676 hinges on 11 baffling seconds when neither pilot controls the airplane.

Air Disasters Deadly Reputation

On July 17, 2007, TAM Airlines Flight 3054 slides off runway 35L at Congonhas Airport in São Paulo, Brazil, and crashes at high speed into a warehouse adjacent to a petrol station killing nearly 200 people.

Air Disasters Pilot Betrayed

Following the story of the Scandinavian Airlines Flight 751 and Captain Rasmussen.

Air Disasters Deadly Crossroads

A look at the string of events that caused a midair collision in 2002 over the skies of southern Germany; a Bashkirian Airlines Flight collides with a DHL Flight in German airspace near Überlingen.

Air Disasters Operation Babylift

A United States Air Force transport aircraft conducting the inaugural flight of Operation Babylift suffers an explosive decompression when the rear cargo door fails and crashes into a paddy field while attempting an emergency landing.

Air Disasters Falling Fast

Investigators discover a shocking mistake when pilots must ditch their plane in the Mediterranean, killing 14 of the 34 passengers.

Air Disasters Deadly Distraction

Delta Air Lines Flight 1141 crashes beyond the runway while taking off from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.

Air Disasters Taxiway Turmoil

Experts examine a departing DC-9 in Detroit which gets lost in the fog and ends up in the path of an oncoming 727.

Air Disasters Getting Out Alive

Air accident survival stories; keeping passengers and crews alive when disaster strikes.