TV Schedule for Smithsonian Channel USA
Friday, May 10th TV listings for Smithsonian Channel USA
Air Disasters Southern Storm
Pilots of Southern Airways Flight 242 must try to land on a Georgia highway after the engines die and the windshield shatters.
Air Disasters Pilot vs. Plane
Air France Flight 296 fails to regain altitude after performing a flyby during an air show at Mulhouse-Habsheim Airport.
Air Disasters System Breakdown
Five aviation disasters and the changes they have forced air-traffic controllers to make.
Air Disasters River Runway
Pilots attempt to land their Boeing 737 in an Indonesian river after losing their engines and electrical power.
Air Disasters Deadly Delivery
UPS Airlines Flight 1354 clips the tops of trees and crashes into a hillside about one nautical mile short of the runway during final approach to Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport in Alabama.
Air Disasters Runway in Sight
If pilots aren't prepared when the runway is in sight, a landing can quickly become a tragedy.
Air Disasters Deadly Confusion
JFK Jr. disappears on the way to Martha's Vineyard, a captain loses his bearings and crashes over the Red Sea and pilots crash a plane over Indonesia.
Air Disasters Fanning the Flames
A complex recovery operation is launched to find out if a 747 which disappeared into the Indian Ocean was carrying illegal weapons.
Air Disasters Ripped Apart
Design innovations evolve as a result of terrible air disasters due to pressurization failure or explosive decompression.
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 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 Slam Dunk
A quick trip from Washington D.C. to Ohio in 1994 turns deadly when pilots of a twin-engine turboprop attempt a risky landing.
Air Disasters Fatal Approach
A false warning in the cockpit triggers a series of pilot errors, sending a commuter plane crashing by the runway of an Amsterdam airport.
Air Disasters Hockey Team Tragedy
On 7 September 2011, YAK-Service Flight 9633, carrying the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl professional ice hockey team, crashes shortly after takeoff at Yaroslavl, Russia, killing all but one of the 45 occupants.
Air Disasters Deadly Solution
Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 stalls and crashes into the Java Sea while flying through a thunderstorm.
Air Disasters Vanishing Act
Investigators face a mystery when Varig Flight 254 disappears without a trace over the jungles of Brazil.
Air Disasters Pitch Black
When an Illinois turboprop crashes after losing battery power, investigators uncover a series of errors made by the pilots.
Air Disasters Meltdown Over Kathmandu
Landing at one of the world's most challenging airports, a passenger plane comes in like a fighter jet and crashes, killing 51 of the 71 people aboard.
WWII Battles in Color Blitzkrieg
Rare archive footage charts the German Army in 1940 as it unleashes a new Blitzkrieg tactic.
WWII Battles in Color Barbarossa
Cameras roll as Nazi Germany launches an all-out assault on the Soviet Union.
WWII Battles in Color El Alamein
Footage of life and death on the battlefield of El Alamein and behind the lines in the African desert.
WWII Battles in Color Kursk
The story of the greatest tank battle the world has ever seen.
WWII Battles in Color The Bulge
Eye-witness accounts from those who fought in the US military's bloodiest battle on the European front in World War II.
WWII Battles in Color Berlin
Incredible footage, colourised for the first time, chronicles the final days of the Third Reich and the brutal battle for Berlin, though German defeat looked certain. Nazi soldiers persisted fighting despite the inevitability of their downfall.