Dangerous Flights

The pilots of a used airplane delivery business brave wild weather, dangerous airstrips and cover distances that small planes were never meant to fly.

Pilots crossing the Amazon rainforest while a UN cargo plane readies for 12,500 km. trek from Canada’s Northwest Territories to war-torn South Sudan.

Pilots jockey a King Air from the UK to the U.S. while others hopscotch along a string of Pacific islands until a night landing trips them up.

A pilot duo in a sleek Phenom jet must ferry 19,000 km. from Australia to the U.S., skirting North Korean airspace with stops in Russia.

Down south, a fellow prop jockey helps Kerry and Stu navigate their way out of a Brazilian made bureaucratic maze.

Kerry and Stu battle storms, engine problems and a nasty stomach bug to ferry a single-engine Cirrus 19,000 kilometres from Singapore to the U.S.

Pilots are forced to take on the old run-down Cheyenne. High above a burning desert, pilots run into mechanical problems... in a single-engine plane.