TV Schedule for Smithsonian Channel USA - Pacific
Monday, June 22nd TV listings for Smithsonian Channel USA - Pacific
Air Disasters Fatal Flaw
A look at several air disasters that involved small components that failed; accidents caused by minor defects or errors; how the follow-up investigations led to changes that have made flying safer.
Air Disasters Getting Out Alive
Air accident survival stories; keeping passengers and crews alive when disaster strikes.
Air Disasters Cockpit Killer
When an African airliner mysteriously crashes, Namibian investigators have to rule out a host of possible causes before reaching a conclusion.
Air Disasters Power Play
When a turboprop loses engine power and crashes in Papua New Guinea, investigators discover a fatal defect existing in Dash 8s around the world.
Air Disasters Mystery Over the Mediterranean
When an Airbus crashes into the Mediterranean Sea, Egyptian authorities, French investigators and an Italian journalist theorize different causes for the accident.
Air Disasters Dead of Winter
An investigation into Continental Airlines Flight 1713, which crashed on takeoff from Denver during a snowstorm in 1987, changes commercial flight forever.
Air Disasters Catastrophe at O'Hare
On 25 May 1979, the number-one engine on American Airlines Flight 191 detaches moments after taking off from Chicago O'Hare International Airport. The aircraft banks to the left and crashes into an open field, killing all 271 people on board.
Air Disasters A Wounded Bird
A blade on the left-side propeller of Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight breaks off; the imbalance of the rotating propeller causes the engine to partly tear itself from its mounting.
Air Disasters Deadly Exchange
When a commuter flight crashes mysteriously just a mile from a Missouri runway, investigators turn their attention to the final seconds in the cockpit.
Air Disasters Fire Fight
A mechanical problem aboard an Air Canada plane turns into an all-out emergency six miles in the air.
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 Turning Point
A Northwest Airlines flight cruises above the Bering Sea before problems develop and pilots must make an emergency landing in Anchorage.
Carriers at War Strike Force Arabian Gulf
The crew of the USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier prepares to give air support to ground troops battling ISIS in Iraq.
Carriers at War Ready to Launch
A behind-the-scenes look at the operations of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier; the dedicated sailors who keep it running at maximum efficiency.
Carriers at War Air Wing
From the USS Langley to the high-tech floating airports; the history of the aircraft carrier and how its air wing operates.
Carriers at War USS Ford
A behind-the-scenes look at how the U.S. Navy's radically redesigned Ford-class aircraft carrier was built.
First-person accounts and rare color footage detail the final 100 days of World War II in Europe.
The war was over in Europe but in the Pacific one of the bloodiest battles was being fought; a look at the bloody and history-altering final 100 days of the Pacific War, shown through rare war footage and first-person accounts.
Air Disasters Gimli Glider
A pilot heads for a decommissioned air force base when the Boeing 767 jet he is flying unexpectedly runs out of fuel.
Air Disasters Free Fall
A computer glitch causes a highly automated Qantas Airways flight to nearly fall out of the sky; Australian investigators must find the cause before it happens again.
Air Disasters Sabotage
From delusional hijackers to suicidal pilots, three flights fall victim to astonishing acts of sabotage.
Air Disasters Deadly Mission
A new investigation sheds light on the controversial 1961 plane crash that killed U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld.
Air Disasters What Happened To Malaysian 370?
Leading aviation experts are confronted with a shocking theory as they investigate one of the greatest aviation mysteries of all time.
Air Disasters Without Warning
Two float planes collide midair near an Alaskan waterfall. One shatters; the other crash-lands intact. With no warning before impact, investigators use wreckage clues and 3D tech to uncover how-and why-the deadly crash occurred.