The Best Episodes of Air Disasters Season 5

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#1 - Fight to the Death
S5:E12/8/2015
On Jun 18, 1972 — BEA Flight 548 (Hawker Siddeley Trident): Minutes after takeoff from London Heathrow, a jet bound for Brussels fell from the sky near Staines, leaving investigators without survivors or flight recordings to explain it.
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#2 - Speed Trap
S5:E22/15/2015
On Jun 6, 1971 — Hughes Airwest Flight 706 (DC-9): Climbing out of Los Angeles, an airliner collides with a Marine Corps F-4 Phantom over the San Gabriel Mountains, forcing civilian and military investigators to work the case together.
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#3 - Lost in Translation
S5:E32/22/2015
On Jan 10, 2000 — Crossair Flight 498 (Saab 340): A commuter flight from Zurich to Dresden crashes two minutes after takeoff — the airline's first fatal accident in 25 years.
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#4 - Tragedy on the Potomac
S5:E43/1/2015
On Jan 13, 1982 — Air Florida Flight 90 (Boeing 737): Departing Washington National in a snowstorm, a jet strikes the 14th Street Bridge and plunges into the icy Potomac, just two miles from the White House.
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#5 - Queens Catastrophe
S5:E53/8/2015
On Nov 12, 2001 — American Airlines Flight 587 (Airbus A300): Two months after 9/11, a flight bound for the Dominican Republic crashes into a Queens neighborhood moments after leaving JFK, and a rattled nation fears the worst.
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#6 - Into the Eye of the Storm
S5:E63/15/2015
On Sep 15, 1989 — NOAA 42 "Kermit" (WP-3D Orion): A hurricane hunter crew flies into Hurricane Hugo east of Barbados, where turbulence beyond anything forecast puts the aircraft and its mission in jeopardy.
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#7 - Massacre Over the Mediterranean
S5:E73/22/2015
On Jun 27, 1980 — Itavia Flight 870 (DC-9): On descent toward Palermo, an Italian airliner vanishes into the Tyrrhenian Sea near Ustica — the start of one of aviation's most contested mysteries.
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#8 - Imperfect Pitch
S5:E83/29/2015
On Nov 27, 2008 — XL Airways Germany Flight 888T (Airbus A320): During a test flight before handover to a new owner, a jet plunges into the Mediterranean off the French coast, and the checkout flight itself comes under scrutiny.
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#9 - Getting Out Alive
S5:E94/5/2015
Special — Multiple incidents, including the 2009 "Miracle on the Hudson": Most air accidents are survivable. Survivors' stories reveal what makes the difference, and how the industry works to improve the odds.
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#10 - Terror in Paradise
S5:E104/12/2015
On Aug 9, 2007 — Air Moorea Flight 1121 (DHC-6 Twin Otter): A seven-minute island hop from Moorea to Tahiti ends when the small plane suddenly noses over and dives into the ocean shortly after takeoff.
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#11 - Titanic in the Sky
S5:E114/19/2015
On Nov 4, 2010 — Qantas Flight 32 (Airbus A380): Minutes after leaving Singapore, an engine on the world's largest airliner explodes, and the crew must manage a cascade of failures to bring it home.
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