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.

Investigators are determined to find out why a Boeing 737 veered off the runway in Denver.

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.