Mayday: Air Disaster

A skilled captain manages to save his crippled aircraft and everyone on board, and then it’s up to investigators to track down the microscopic culprit.

At a Nevada air show, a modified WW2 fighter plane nosedives into the crowd. It’s one of the worst air race crashes of all time.

When a commuter plane crashes at Amsterdam airport, investigators determine that a minor circuitry problem sparked a cascading series of fatal errors.

At the US naval base in Guantanamo, investigators search for an invisible culprit after a cargo plane crashes just a few thousand feet from the armed Cuban border.

A cargo plane crashes just moments after taking off from Miami, and it will take an anonymous tip to determine what went wrong.

A Romanian airliner crashes just minutes after taking off from Bucharest, and it’s up to the FBI to determine if it was an accident or an act of murder.

A Russian commercial flight ends in a fatal nosedive, and what investigators eventually uncover leads to a call to overhaul the country’s aviation system.

The underdog heroes of Brazilian soccer are heading to play the game of a lifetime, but with the runway in sight, their dream turns into a nightmare.

The charred wreckage of a turboprop leaves little for investigators to work with. That is, until the cockpit voice recorder reveals the smoking gun.