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    • Southern Storm: Sneak Peek - Duration: 65 seconds.

      by Smithsonian Channel
      • 4 years ago
      • 13,886 views
      Torrential rain. Baseball-sized hail. Why did Flight 242 enter this severe storm, and what caused its engines to fail?

    • Air Disasters: Sneak Peek - Duration: 41 seconds.

      by Smithsonian Channel
      • 4 years ago
      • 18,070 views
      Our worst nightmares in the sky, triggered by mechanical failure or human error, faced with heroism and ingenuity, and ended in triumph or tragedy.

    • Crashlanding at LAX - Duration: 2 minutes, 5 seconds.

      by Smithsonian Channel
      • 3 years ago
      • 17,825 views
      A routine touchdown seems to inexplicably turn into a crashlanding - until rescuers realize there was a second plane on the runway.

      From: AIR DISASTERS: Cleared for Disaster
      http://bit.ly/1jJrKEq

    • Air Disasters - A Deadly Mistake - Duration: 118 seconds.

      by Smithsonian Channel
      • 3 years ago
      • 13,441 views
      The investigation into a deadly runway crash at LAX reveals that it was one air traffic controller's minor mistake that caused the major catastrophe.

      From: AIR DISASTERS: Cleared for Disaster
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    • A Flyover Ends in Flames - Duration: 4 minutes, 3 seconds.

      by Smithsonian Channel
      • 3 years ago
      • 26,251 views
      After months of publicity and promotion, pilot Michel Asseline finally gets the chance to show off the brand new Airbus A320, but instead of ending in applause, his flyover ends in flames.

      From: A...

    • Fatal Distraction: Sneak Peek - Duration: 68 seconds.

      by Smithsonian Channel
      • 4 years ago
      • 13,251 views
      A mutlimillion-dollar plane, brought down by a faulty $12 bulb.

    • Air Disasters - The Black Box in the Soviet Safe - Duration: 4 minutes, 2 seconds.

      by Smithsonian Channel
      • 3 years ago
      • 12,320 views
      A decade after Korean Airlines flight 007 went down, and years after investigators filed an inconclusive report, the Soviet government reveals that they had the missing black box all along.

    • An Avoidable Disaster - Duration: 2 minutes, 34 seconds.

      by Smithsonian Channel
      • 4 years ago
      • 69,655 views
      Discover the explosive truth behind a design flaw that caused not one but two midair disasters, one with deadly results.

    • The Checklist - Duration: 102 seconds.

      by Smithsonian Channel
      • 3 years ago
      • 7,862 views
      Pilots must run through hundreds of small steps in order to make a plane fly; forgetting just one of the steps on the checklist could mean disaster.

    • Air Disasters: Saved by Nerves of Steel - Duration: 2 minutes, 11 seconds.

      by Smithsonian Channel
      • 4 years ago
      • 459,371 views
      Relive the incredible story of a pilot forced to glide an engineless 767 to safety, from more than 26,000 feet in the air.

    • Miraculous Plane Landing on New Orleans Levee - Duration: 3 minutes, 55 seconds.

      by Smithsonian Channel
      • 2 years ago
      • 950,867 views
      A severe thunderstorm forced a Boeing 737 to attempt an emergency landing on the most unlikely, impossible place: a New Orleans levee.

      From: AIR DISASTERS: Nowhere to Land
      http://bit.ly/1jTGJgQ

    • Air Disasters - Alarming Silence: The Sole Survivor - Duration: 2 minutes, 50 seconds.

      by Smithsonian Channel
      • 2 years ago
      • 13,511 views
      The crash of flight 255 was so overwhelming, rescue workers doubted there'd be any survivors, but they were wrong. Four-year-old Cecilia Cichan was found mysteriously alive in the burning wreckage....

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