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Episodes

Season 22 · 10 episodes

• E1 Pacific Plunge (Alaska Airlines Flight 261)
  Jan 23, 2022 42 min

  When Alaska Airlines Flight 261 suddenly nosedives into the Pacific, investigators uncover a critical maintenance issue with deadly implications.

• E2 Terror over Michigan (TWA Flight 841)
  Jan 30, 2022 42 min

  After a Boeing 727’s near-fatal nosedive over Michigan, investigators risk their own lives to determine why TWA Flight 841 fell out of the sky.

• E3 Stealth Bomber Down
  Feb 6, 2022 42 min

  When a two-billion-dollar Stealth Bomber crashes in Guam, it’s up to the US Air Force to investigate the most expensive aviation accident of all time.

• E4 Double Trouble (Trans-Air Service 671)
  Feb 13, 2022 42 min

  Rocked by an explosion that rips both right wing engines off the wing, the pilots of Transair 671 manage a miraculous landing at a French military airfield.

• E5 Holding Pattern (FlyDubai 981)
  Feb 20, 2022 42 min

  When Flydubai Flight 981 nosedives into the runway at Russia's Rostov airport, investigators uncover one of the most lethal traps in aviation.

• E6 Peril Over Portugal (Martinair Flight 495)
  Feb 27, 2022 42 min

  A Martinair flight crashes in Portugal amid thunderstorms and heavy rain, and when investigators piece together the evidence the mystery only deepens

• E7 Loss of a Legend
  Mar 6, 2022 42 min

  When basketball legend Kobe Bryant is killed in a helicopter crash in Los Angeles, investigators look for clues amid a global outpouring of grief.

• E8 Turboprop Terror (Flagship Airlines Flight 3379)
  Mar 13, 2022 42 min

  After a turboprop crashes in North Carolina, investigators resort to a risky test flight—and uncover an industry-wide safety problem.

• E9 Tree Strike Terror (American Airlines Flight 1572)
  Mar 20, 2022 42 min

  Facing a severe thunderstorm and a control tower shutdown, American Airlines 1572 suffers double-engine failure on final approach into Windsor Locks Airport in Connecticut.

• E10 Pitch Black (Air Illinois Flight 710)
  Mar 27, 2022 42 min

  On October 11, 1983, a routine 160 mile (245km) commuter flight from Springfield, Illinois, to Carbondale, Illinois, turns deadly when the Hawker Siddeley HS 748 the pilots were flying loses D.C. electrical power from both aircraft generators.