Air Crash Investigation

When an African airliner mysteriously crashes, Namibian investigators rule out a host of possible causes before reaching a chilling conclusion. LAM Mozambique Airlines Flight 470 was a scheduled international passenger flight fr…

Investigators are stumped when a turboprop crashes into an Indonesian mountaintop. Trigana Air Flight 267 was a scheduled passenger flight from Sentani to Oksibil in the eastern Indonesian province of Papua. On 16 August 2015, t…

A helicopter carrying offshore oil workers crashes into the ocean off the coast of Newfoundland and a far-reaching investigation reveals a fatal flaw. Cougar Helicopters Flight 91 was a scheduled flight of a Cougar Sikorsky S-92…

A brand-new 737 falls from the sky over West Africa during a major storm, but investigators eventually discover weather had nothing to do with it. Kenya Airways Flight 507 was a scheduled Abidjan–Douala–Nairobi passenger servic…

Landing on a Caribbean island in a severe tropical storm, a Colombian airliner crashes short of the runway. Investigators need to find out why. AIRES Flight 8250 was a domestic scheduled passenger flight that on 16 August 2010 …

Investigators are stumped when a turboprop slams into an Argentine desert, and it's a microscopic filament that provides the first tangible clue Sol Líneas Aéreas Flight 5428 was a passenger flight which crashed near Los Menu…

Blanketed by confusion and heavy fog, a DC-9 ends up at the wrong end of an active runway in Detroit, and directly in the path of an oncoming 727. The 1990 Wayne County Airport runway collision involved the collision of two Nort…

After a routine landing, a Taiwanese commuter plane is rocked by a massive explosion, but investigators find no evidence of a bomb on board. Uni Air Flight 873 was a Taiwanese domestic passenger flight between Taipei and Hualien…

A cargo jet plummets to earth in the Swedish Arctic. And as investigators pore over the evidence, a terrifying picture of chaos and confusion emerges West Air Sweden Flight 294 was a cargo flight of a Canadair CRJ200 from Oslo t…

A Pakistani airliner crashes in the Himalayas. And when their most vital piece of evidence fails to deliver, investigators scramble to find answers Pakistan International Airlines Flight 268 was an Airbus A300, registration AP-B…