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Air Disasters Season 10 Episodes
Season 10 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 2018 - 2018
Episode 1
Deadly Silence
Sun, Jan 7, 2018 60 mins
A private Learjet carrying golf legend and reigning U.S. Open champion Payne Stewart takes off from Orlando heading for Dallas in 1999. But within minutes, air traffic control loses contact with the aircraft. The situation grows more urgent when the plane begins an unplanned trajectory across the Midwest. Air Force F-16 fighter planes scramble to intercept the Learjet, only to discover that the pilots and passengers are dead. The only question is why it happened.
Episode 2
The Pentagon Attack
Sun, Jan 7, 2018 60 mins
A Boeing 757 takes off from Washington Dulles International Airport en route to Los Angeles. In minutes, hijackers storm the cockpit and turn the plane back toward the nation's capital and straight into the Pentagon. A total of 189 people are dead, the fuselage has been vaporized, and investigators are under tremendous pressure to determine how this could have happened.
Episode 3
Disaster at Tenerife
Sun, Jan 21, 2018 60 mins
Two 747s collide on the runway of a small airport in the Canary Islands, resulting in history's deadliest air crash.
Episode 4
Deadly Detail
Sun, Jan 28, 2018 60 mins
The chances of a catastrophic event happening after a plane parks are nearly nonexistent, which is why the incident aboard China Airlines Flight 120 in August 2007 was so baffling to investigators. The plane's engines were switched off. The passengers were lining up to debark. Then within seconds, the aircraft was engulfed in flames. What caused the sudden inferno that sent panicked passengers scrambling for their lives?
Episode 5
Deadly Detour
Sun, Feb 11, 2018 60 mins
A commuter flight over France makes a sightseeing detour that sets off a deadly chain of events.
Episode 6
Dangerous Approach
Sun, Feb 18, 2018 60 mins
Continental Express Flight 2286, a Trans-Colorado Airlines commuter plane, flies over the Rocky Mountains heading to Durango-La Plata County Airport in 1988. Five miles from touchdown, something goes terribly wrong. There's no sign of the runway and before both pilots can react, the aircraft crashes in the frozen wilderness. Nine of the 17 people on board are killed, and investigators are left scrambling for answers.
Episode 7
Murder in the Skies
Sun, Feb 25, 2018 60 mins
It's a routine takeoff on an ordinary morning in 2015 when Germanwings Flight 9525 leaves Barcelona for Dusseldorf. But something goes horribly wrong over the French Alps. The plane begins rapidly descending and air traffic control gets no response from the cockpit. Everyone's worst fears are realized when the plane is found smashed to pieces in the mountains. All passengers and crew aboard are dead.
Episode 8
River Runway
Sun, Mar 4, 2018 60 mins
After losing its engines and electrical power, pilots attempt to land their Boeing 737 in an Indonesian river.
Episode 9
Deadly Solution
Sun, Mar 11, 2018 60 mins
Just days after Christmas in 2014, an Airbus A320 en route to Singapore disappears over the Java Sea. A massive search confirms the worst: the plane has crashed, killing all 162 on board. Speculation runs wild about what could have brought the airliner down, and an international team of experts comes together to help determine what caused AirAsia Flight 8501 to plummet from the sky.
Episode 10
Afghan Nightmare
Sun, Mar 18, 2018 60 mins
It's April 2013. A 747 cargo plane leaves Afghanistan's largest airfield with 207,000 pounds of military equipment. Within seconds of takeoff, the pilots lose control of the aircraft. The nose won't drop, and in an instant, the plane stalls and crashes to the ground. The accident is caught on camera, leading investigators to what seems like an obvious conclusion, until further research indicates there must be more to the story.
