The Best Episodes Written By Armen Kazazian

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   9.5/10(2 votes)

   #1 - Turning Point (Northwest Airlines Flight 85)

   S11:E612/29/2011

   On 9 October 2002, Northwest Airlines Flight 85 is cruising above the Bering Sea, when the lower rudder segment suddenly deflects to the left. The pilots divert the aircraft to a successful emergency landing at Anchorage, Alaska, by using engine thrust for control. The incident was attributed to a fatigue failure of the rudder hydraulic control module, resulting in part of the module's metal casing breaking off.

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   8.7/10(3 votes)

   #2 - Impossible Landing (United Airlines Flight 232)

   S11:E134/13/2012

   On 19 July 1989, the tail-mounted number two engine of United Airlines Flight 232 explodes, causing serious damage to the aircraft's hydraulic systems and leaving the flight controls unusable. By varying engine thrust, the pilots manage to crash-land the aircraft at the Sioux Gateway Airport in Iowa, saving the lives of 185 of the 296 people on board. The investigation traced the engine failure to a fatigue crack in the front fan disk which had developed from a defect introduced before the disk was even made, when the original titanium ingot used to make it was formed.

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   8.3/10(3 votes)

   #3 - Nowhere to Land (TACA Flight 110)

   S11:E112/17/2012

   On 24 May 1988, TACA Airlines Flight 110, a near-new Boeing 737, flies through a thunderstorm and suffers a dual engine flameout. The captain, Carlos Dardano, manages to make a successful deadstick landing on a narrow grass levee in the Michoud area of eastern New Orleans.

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   7.8/10(4 votes)

   #4 - Queens Catastrophe (American Airlines Flight 587)

   S13:E41/6/2014

   On 12 November 2001, just two months after the September 11 attacks, American Airlines Flight 587 spirals out of control after taking off from John F. Kennedy Airport. Shortly after, the aircraft crashes into the suburb of Queens, killing all 260 people on board and five people on the ground. The vertical stabilizer had detached from the aircraft because of improper rudder use by the first officer, after encountering wake turbulence from a Boeing 747-400 that had taken off minutes earlier.

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   7.8/10(4 votes)

   #5 - Caution to the Wind (Singapore Airlines Flight 006)

   S12:E38/17/2012

   On 31 October 2000, Singapore Airlines Flight 006 collides with construction equipment at Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taipei while attempting to take off on the wrong runway in a typhoon. 83 of the 179 passengers and crew members perish. Investigators concluded that pilot error was the cause of the crash.

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   7.3/10(3 votes)

   #6 - Catastrophe at OHare (American Airlines Flight 191)

   S12:E82/25/2013

   On 25 May 1979, the left engine of American Airlines Flight 191 falls off moments after takeoff at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. The aircraft crashes into an open field shortly thereafter, killing all 271 people on board and two people on the ground. The engine fell off because the pylon attaching it to the wing had suffered damage caused by improper maintenance procedures.

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   7.3/10(3 votes)

   #7 - Target Is Destroyed (Korean Air Lines Flight 007)

   S9:E510/6/2010

   On 1 September 1983, during the Cold War, Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was shot down after violating Soviet airspace. The crew did not switch the autopilot from heading to INS mode following take off which caused the aircraft to deviate from its assigned flight path.

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   7.3/10(4 votes)

   #8 - Death of the President (2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154)

   S12:E71/27/2013

   On 10 April 2010, a Polish Air Force VIP aircraft carrying the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński, his wife Maria Kaczyńska and other top officials, crashes short of the runway in a wooded area while on final approach to Smolensk North Airport in heavy fog and low visibility. All 96 passengers and crew members on board are killed.

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   7.0/10(4 votes)

   #9 - Death in the Arctic (First Air Flight 6560)

   S14:E113/24/2015

   On 20 August 2011, First Air Flight 6560, a charter flight, crashes near its destination of Resolute Bay Airport, Resolute, Nunavut, Canada, in poor weather conditions. Out of the fifteen passengers and crew members, only three survived.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Lies, Lawns, and Murder

    S1:E14/14/2014

    In North Carolina, a retired Vietnam veteran sells off a piece of his land to a young family. No one can predict the modern day Hatfield McCoy neighbor feud that will ensue and the midnight shootout that will end it.

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