TV Schedule for Smithsonian Channel USA - Pacific
Monday, June 15th TV listings for Smithsonian Channel USA - Pacific
Air Disasters Missing Pieces
Following three air crash investigations in which examiners are pushed to the limit to crack the cases.
Air Disasters Missed Opportunities
[EPG Series] History's most terrifying air disasters, and the investigations that followed, are revisited and reexamined.
Air Disasters Fire on Board
A Swissair passenger jet catches fire midflight and crashes into the Atlantic, leading to one of the largest investigations in aviation history.
Air Disasters Kathmandu Descent
A challenging descent in the Himalayas turns tragic when the pilots miscalculate their approach to a Kathmandu airport.
Air Disasters Dangerous Winds
Three planes fall prey to deadly winds, and it is up to investigators to find out why.
Air Disasters The Heathrow Enigma
A British Airways Flight's engines failure to respond cause the plane to crash-land just short of the runway.
Air Disasters Stormy Cockpit
Pilots leaving Cameroon steer their plane clear of a storm, but the aircraft begins rolling to the right, and they are unable to regain control.
Air Disasters Risky Runways
In São Paulo, the Himalayas, and on the Norwegian coast, the toughest landings on earth pushed three flight crews.
Air Disasters Nowhere to Land
Pilots of TACA Flight 110 make a remarkable landing on a narrow levee, but investigators must find out why the engines in a brand-new plane failed.
Air Disasters Radio Silence
The business jet carrying PGA golfer Payne Stewart and former Alabama football quarterback crashes; how loss of pressurization and structural failure led to this crash and the deadliest aviation accidents in both Greek and Taiwanese history.
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.
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.
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 on to destroy Hitler's super weapons.
Battle of Midway: The True Story
America's first victory in the Pacific during World War II is retold from the vantage point of the three U.S. attack planes as they overcame the enemy ambush to face off against the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, a long-range fighter, in the air.
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 Concorde: Up in Flames
On 25 July 2000, a Concorde operating as Air France Flight 4590 stalled and crashed into a hotel in Gonesse shortly after takeoff from Charles de Gaulle Airport, killing all the 109 people on board and 4 on the ground.