TV Schedule for Smithsonian Channel USA - Pacific

Aerial America Massachusetts

A flight over Massachusetts explores the sites; the Bay State, from Martha's Vineyard to the Bambino's Curse, seen from the air.

Aerial America Natural Wonders

America's most remarkable natural wonders are explored including the Grand Canyon, the Great Lakes and more.

Aerial America Connecticut

A high-flying tour of Connecticut; exploring the safe harbors, buildings and rich maritime history; the home state of Mark Twain, PT Barnum and Katharine Hepburn; the exclusive Gold Coast, the Thimble Islands and the historic cities.

Aerial America Tennessee

From battlefields where hundreds died to Beale Street where musical legends were born.

Aerial America Arkansas

An aerial view of Arkansas, where settlers' westward journeys began and the scene of Bonnie and Clyde's most serious crime; a view of the land of raging rivers, vast wilderness and legends of the Wild West.

Aerial America North Carolina

The Wright Brothers gave the state its slogan "First in Flight"; civil rights leaders in Greensboro; NASCAR.

Aerial America New Mexico

An aerial view of New Mexico; exploring its landscapes and landmarks, while revealing its many legends and secrets.

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.

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 Second Thoughts

The turboprop plane begins its descent in thick fog, but things go wrong; Luxair Flight 9642 crashes a few kilometers from the runway; investigators discover that there was nothing abnormal about the two engines.

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.

Air Disasters Into the Eye of the Storm

On 15 September 1989, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration aircraft tasked with intercepting Hurricane Hugo over the Caribbean islands is jolted by strong winds, causing an engine to catch fire and fail.