- 8.7/103 votes
#1 - Fatal Delivery (UPS Airlines Flight 6)
Season 15 Episode 3 - Aired 1/11/2016
On 3 September 2010, the pilots of UPS Airlines Flight 6 report a fire and declare an emergency shortly after taking off from Dubai International Airport. The crew tries to land back at the airport, but are unsuccessful. The aircraft flies over the airport and crashes into an unpopulated area nearby. Both of the pilots die.
Director: Tim Wolochatiuk
Writer: Julia Nunes
- 8.5/102 votes
#2 - Deadly Delay (Spanair Flight 5022)
Season 15 Episode 10 - Aired 3/7/2016
On 20 August 2008, Spanair Flight 5022 attempts to takeoff from Barajas Airport, but stalls immediately, banks to the right and crashes, killing 154 people out of the 172 on board. The pilots aborted the first takeoff attempt, and the second attempt resulted in the crash.
Director: Tim Wolochatiuk
Writer: Julia Nunes
- 8.5/102 votes
#3 - Murder in the Skies (Germanwings Flight 9525)
Season 16 Episode 7 - Aired 1/23/2017
On 24 March 2015, Germanwings Flight 9525 enters a high-speed descent and crashes into the French Alps during a flight from Barcelona, Spain, to Düsseldorf, Germany. All 150 people on board are killed.
Director: Tim Wolochatiuk
Writer: Julia Nunes
- 8.5/102 votes
#4 - Deadly Go Round (China Airlines Flight 140)
Season 18 Episode 9 - Aired 6/27/2018
On 26 April 1994, China Airlines Flight 140 pitches upwards, enters an aerodynamic stall at low altitude and crashes approximately 340 feet east-northeast of the centreline of the runway while on final approach to Nagoya Airport in Nagoya, Japan. 264 of the 271 people on board are killed in the crash.
Director: Mark Mainguy
Writer: Julia Nunes
- 8.3/103 votes
#5 - Fatal Transmission (United Express Flight 5925)
Season 15 Episode 1 - Aired 1/2/2016
On 19 November 1996, United Express Flight 5925, operating for Great Lakes Airlines, lands at Quincy Regional Airport and collides with a light aircraft taking off from an intersecting runway. All 14 occupants on both aircraft were killed in a subsequent fire.
Director: Tim Wolochatiuk
Writer: Julia Nunes
- 8.0/101 votes
#6 - Explosive Touchdown
Season 20 Episode 1 - Aired 1/9/2020
(Uni Air Flight 873) Experts fail to find a bomb when a Taiwanese plane explodes. But as they examine the wreckage, they uncover something shocking in the overhead lockers.
Director: Tim Wolochatiuk
Writer: Julia Nunes
- 7.5/102 votes
#7 - Carnage in Sao Paulo (TAM Transportes Aéreos Regionais Flight 402)
Season 15 Episode 7 - Aired 2/15/2016
On 31 October 1996, TAM Transportes Aéreos Regionais Flight 402 crashes seconds after takeoff from São Paulo–Congonhas Airport into a heavily populated residential area, killing all 96 people on board and 3 on the ground. The crash was attributed to the uncommanded deployment of a faulty thrust reverser on the right engine.
Director: Tim Wolochatiuk
Writer: Julia Nunes
- 7.5/102 votes
#8 - Afghan Nightmare (National Airlines Flight 102)
Season 16 Episode 10 - Aired 2/13/2017
On 29 April 2013, just seconds after taking off from Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, National Airlines Flight 102 stalls and crashes into the ground, killing all seven crew members on board.
Director: Mark Mainguy
Writer: Julia Nunes
- 7.0/101 votes
#9 - Deadly Display (2012 Mount Salak Sukhoi Superjet crash)
Season 18 Episode 5 - Aired 3/16/2018
On 9 May 2012, an aircraft on a demonstration tour crashes into Mount Salak in the province of West Java. All 45 people on board are killed.
Director: Tim Wolochatiuk
Writer: Julia Nunes
- 7.0/101 votes
#10 - Seconds from Touchdown
Season 21 Episode 9 - Aired 5/30/2021
On 18 June 1998, Propair Flight 420 crashes while attempting to conduct an emergency landing at Montréal-Mirabel International Airport after an in-flight fire causes its left wing to fail, killing all 11 people on board.
Director: Mark Mainguy
Writer: Julia Nunes