TV Schedule for Smithsonian Channel USA

Air Disasters Out of Control

A simple error years prior causes the deadliest single-plane crash in history.

Air Disasters Subtle Incapacitation

The 2010 crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 sparks rumors of terrorism.

Air Disasters Fatal Distraction

Pilots of Eastern Airline Flight 401 try to determine why both landing-gear lights do not function on an L-1011, tragically distracting them.

Air Disasters Deadly Inclination

An Alitalia airliner crashes into a forested hillside just a few miles from a Zurich runway.

Air Disasters Fatal Friction

Human flaws cause three plane crashes in England, Colorado and Minnesota.

Air Disasters Seconds to Survive

On 21 February 2008, Santa Bárbara Airlines Flight 518 strays off course and flies into the side of a mountain shortly after takeoff.

Air Disasters Lethal Turn

Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 crashes into mountainous woodlands while trying to land at Polonia International Airport in Medan, North Sumatra, in low visibility.

Air Disasters Impossible Landing

A look at the fate of United Airlines Flight 232 which crashed into Sioux City's runway in 1989; it caused a subsequent explosion that left 111 people dead.

Air Disasters Runway Collisions

Three catastrophic runway collisions raise the same pressing question; a look at how two planes end up on the same runway at the same time.

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.

Air Disasters Lost Star Footballer

With a young rising football star on board, a chartered Piper Malibu suddenly disappears from radar over the English Channel.

Air Disasters Mountain Impact

Following three horrifying crashes, investigators uncover fatal flaws in the very operations designed to prevent aircraft from flying into mountains.

Air Disasters Soccer Tragedy

A plane carrying a Brazilian soccer team crashes just ten miles from the airport in 2016.

Air Disasters Explosive Clues

A look at three commercial planes that became targets over the Sinai Desert, the Sea of Japan and Ukraine.

Air Disasters The Pentagon Attack

The FBI and NTSB join forces to determine how terrorists hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 and flew it into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.

Air Disasters Blind Landing

TANS Perú Flight 204 crashes into a muddy swamp while attempting to land at Pucallpa Airport, Peru, in a thunderstorm, killing 40 of the 98 people on board.

Mighty Cruise Ships Norwegian Joy

Norwegian Joy sails amid icebergs in Alaska's Inside Passage, treating guests to glaciers, humpback whales, and the largest zip line in the world.

Mighty Cruise Ships Paul Gauguin

The Paul Gauguin offers five-star luxury while sailing near the coral reefs, mountainous islands and tropical playgrounds of French Polynesia.

Mighty Cruise Ships Le Soléal

New luxury liner Le Soleal navigates the uncharted waters of Indonesia to give her passengers one-of-a-kind encounters at exotic destinations.