Air Disasters

Air Disasters

No Control (14x4)


Air date: Jan 26, 2020

Some of aviation's worst disasters involved the world's most advanced passenger planes. Often, the calamities are caused by a breakdown in trust between the pilots and their highly automated aircraft, turning the cockpit into a struggle of pilot versus machine. Investigate three crashes where experienced pilots lost control of their high-tech planes, including a commercial jet crash that went down at an air show, an Airbus A320 flight test gone wrong, and a modern airliner that dropped from the sky and slammed into the Atlantic.

  • Premiered: May 2011
  • Episodes: 234
  • Followers: 21
  • Running
  • Smithsonian Channel
  • Sunday at 22