TV Schedule for Smithsonian Channel USA - Pacific

Aerial America Colorado

Alpine valleys; Rocky Mountains; Denver's towering skyscrapers.

Aerial America Nebraska

Soaring above the Cornhusker State's vast farms, towering spires, desolate badlands and gleaming cities.

Aerial America Wisconsin

Tour the Wisconsin State Capitol and Milwaukee City Hall, once the tallest building in the world.

Aerial America Hawaii

The stories and sights of Hawaii's major islands.

Aerial America Puerto Rico & US Virgin Islands

A tour over two U.S. territories, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Aerial America Michigan

A flying tour of Michigan's cultural landmarks, including Motown, the Great Lakes, the automobile industry and more.

Aerial America The Wild West

A journey over America's western landscape featuring "wild" history and stories of colorful characters.

Air Disasters Behind Closed Doors

A design fault leads to an explosion on a DC-10 and two years later the same design fault causes another tragedy.

Air Disasters Runaway Train

A freight train carrying an excess of cargo loses its brakes while descending a mountain causing it to gain speed and derail into a neighborhood killing several people.

Air Disasters Explosive Touchdown

After touching down, a Taiwanese commuter plane is rocked by a massive explosion, but investigators find no evidence of a bomb on board.

Air Disasters Atlantic Ditching

A helicopter carrying offshore drilling workers crashes into the ocean, leading to an investigation that reveals a fatal flaw in the chopper's design.

Air Disasters Flying Blind

A cleaning crew makes a careless error while cleaning a Boeing 757, affecting the plane's computer system and causing it to crash into the Pacific Ocean.

Air Disasters Blown Away

The investigation into the 2014 crash of a TransAsia flight uncovers a systemic problem with the airline.

Air Disasters Perilous Payload

Three planes fatally out of balance force investigators to question every calculation; it's a flight risk that's entirely preventable, and yet repeated disasters reconfirm the need for critical backup systems.

Air Disasters Powerless Plunge

Just moments after takeoff, a Loganair cargo flight from Edinburgh loses both engines and crashes into the icy North Sea.

Air Disasters Invisible Killer

During a storm, a strong gale slams Delta Air Lines Flight 191 to the ground, killing most people on board.

Air Disasters Cleared for Disaster

An air traffic controller's mistake causes a Boeing 737 to land on a runway already occupied by another aircraft.

Air Disasters Falling From the Sky

A British Airways flight to Australia in 1982 crashes into the Indian Ocean.

Air Disasters Ghost Plane

Investigators try to solve the mystery of a plane whose captain and co-pilot are missing.

Air Disasters Caught on Tape

The dashcam of a passing car captures stunning footage of the final moments of a Taiwanese commuter aircraft as it banks steeply, clips an elevated highway and nosedives into the river; investigators find no signs of pre-impact malfunction.

Air Disasters Cabin Catastrophe

A Boeing 737 is rocked by a midair explosion that challenges its pilots and nearly ejects a passenger out of a blown-out window.

Air Disasters Titanic in the Sky

On 4 November 2010, shortly after takeoff from Singapore, the number-two engine on Qantas Flight 32 partially disintegrates, causing serious damage to its left wing.

Air Disasters Fatal Climb

A commercial airliner crashes minutes after taking off from an airport in Bucharest causing suspicions to rise.

Air Disasters Double Trouble

Trans-Air Service Flight 671 suffers an in-flight separation of its two right engines while en route to Kano, Nigeria, forcing the pilots to make an emergency landing at Istres-Le Tubé Air Base in France.