Air Crash Investigation

The emergency landing of an Aloha Airlines plane that literally blew its top and the investigation that followed.

The roof of an Aloha Airlines 737 tears off the plane at 24,000 feet.

A terrorist strike on a DHL plane in Iraq forces its flight crew to make an emergency landing.

A surface-to-air missile cripples a cargo plane just after it leaves Baghdad International Airport.

A catastrophic error made seven years earlier led to the deadliest single-aircraft accident in history.

The worst single-plane crash in history and the simple error made years earlier that caused it.

A life-or-death battle, thousands of feet in the air, between a three-man FedEx crew and a troubled employee.

Three FedEx employees are attacked midair by a coworker and engage in daring flight maneuvers to survive.

A 1994 terrorist bombing aboard Philippine Airlines Flight 434 forces its pilots into a daring emergency landing.

An airliner explosion at 33,000 feet and the remarkable landing and global manhunt that followed.

A Navy cruiser's captain must determine if an incoming plane is friend or foe.

The story of a U.S. battleship, a commercial flight, and a radar unit that couldn't make up its mind.

A helicopter carrying oil workers to an offshore drilling platform crashes, beginning a fight for survival.

The discovery of oil in the North Sea led to economic riches in Britain, and to a terrifying air disaster in 1995.

The worst air crash in Egypt's history becomes one the most controversial after the investigation focuses on one pilot's deadly intentions.

Was it a mechanical failure or a suicidal pilot that doomed Egypt Air Flight 990? Years later, the dispute continues.

A pilot's decision to let his teenage son take the wheel of a commercial flight has disastrous consequences.

Enter the cockpit of RIA Flight 593, where pilots battle an uncooperative plane, gravity, and a teen at the wheel.

Pilots aboard a hijacked plane are forced to attempt an emergency landing at sea.

Witness a brave pilot battle against hijackers and a crippled plane to land his passenger jet on the open ocean.