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Air Disasters Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 2015 - 2015
Episode 1
Fight to the Death
Sun, Feb 8, 2015 60 mins
The Season 5 premiere examines the 1972 crash of BEA Flight 548 shortly after takeoff from London's Heathrow airport.
Episode 2
Speed Trap
Sun, Feb 15, 2015 60 mins
A 1971 midair collision between a Hughes Airwest flight and an F-4 Phantom fighter jet is recalled.
Episode 3
Lost in Translation
Sun, Feb 22, 2015 60 mins
The 2000 crash in Switzerland of Crossair Flight 498, a commuter flight, is investigated.
Episode 4
Tragedy on the Potomac
Sun, Mar 1, 2015 60 mins
The 1982 crash of Air Florida Flight 90 into the Potomac River is recalled.
Episode 5
Queens Catastrophe
Sun, Mar 8, 2015 60 mins
The investigation of the November 2001 crash of a passenger plane in Queens, N.Y., is recounted.
Episode 6
Into the Eye of the Storm
Sun, Mar 15, 2015 60 mins
An NOAA research plane's 1989 encounter with Hurricane Hugo, a Category 5 storm, is recalled.
Episode 7
Massacre Over the Mediterranean
Sun, Mar 22, 2015 60 mins
The 1989 crash of Itavia Flight 870 into the Mediterranean Sea, killing everyone aboard, is recalled.
Episode 8
Imperfect Pitch
Sun, Mar 29, 2015 60 mins
The investigation into the 2008 crash of XL Airways Germany Airbus A320 is recounted.
Episode 9
Getting Out Alive
Sun, Apr 5, 2015 60 mins
Survival stories. Also: What the industry is doing to keep passengers and crews alive when disaster strikes.
Episode 10
Terror in Paradise
Sun, Apr 12, 2015 60 mins
The crash of Air Moorea Flight 1121 in 2007 is recalled. What should have been a seven-minute island-hop from Moorea to Tahiti ended in disaster when the plane crashed into the ocean two minutes after takeoff.
