The series about real-life rescues returns for a seven-part series with the tale of four friends who survived a plane crash in Scotland only to face a ferocious blizzard.

Michael Buerk looks back on emergency cases, including an 80mph bobsleigh accident and an impaled cyclist.

Tonight's dramatic rescues feature the man who needed all his courage to enter a burning house and the schoolboy trapped under a torrent of water.

Tonight's dramatic rescues feature the mother and baby trapped under the mangled wreckage of their car. Plus how the tide turned on a rescue operation.

Dramatic rescues include a woman unconscious in a river following a horrific motorcycling accident and a yachting event that became a race for life.

Michael Buerk unveils the conclusion of last week's yachting nightmare, plus bravery from a cool-headed school-boy and a lorry driver's heroics after a motorway crash.

A pilot's heroic efforts to land a stricken passenger plane.