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Air Disasters Avianca Flight 52 is delayed numerous times by bad weather en route; it is dangerously low on fuel as it attempts a landing at New York City.

🕒 11:00 PM - 12:00 AM

Air Disasters On June 27, 1980, Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 crashes into the Tyrrhenian Sea near the island of Ustica, Italy; all 81 people on board are killed.

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Disasters Engineered Trace the chain of events that led to a deadly explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig and unleashed the largest marine oil spill in history; see the failed part that caused the NASA Challenger Space Shuttle to explode seconds after liftoff.

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Air Disasters A Colorado commuter flight crashes five miles short of the runway and the reasons why rock the airline industry.

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Air Disasters Pilots attempt to land their Boeing 737 in an Indonesian river after losing their engines and electrical power.

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Air Disasters Two 747s collide on the runway of a small airport in the Canary Islands, resulting in history's deadliest air crash.

🕒 6:00 AM - 7:00 AM

Air Disasters On 18 June 1972, British European Airways Flight 548 stalls and crashes in a field near Staines shortly after takeoff from London Heathrow Airport, killing all 118 people on board.

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Air Disasters After a Boeing 727's near-fatal nosedive over Michigan, investigators risk their own lives to determine what caused the aircraft to lose control.

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Air Disasters The inside story of one of history's most infamous and complex investigations: the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800.

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Air Disasters The 2000 crash of an Alaska Airlines plane just off the California coast leads to a disturbing discovery about the company's cost-cutting procedures.