Air Crash Investigation - Season 11 (2011)

Investigate the 1991 crash of commuter plane Continental Express Flight 2574, and see how good intentions went terribly wrong.

Revisit the 1958 plane crash that destroyed Manchester United's soccer team and left a pilot's reputation in tatters.

On 9 October 2002, Northwest Airlines flight 85 is cruising at 35,000 feet (10,668 metres) above the Bering Sea on its way to Tokyo, when its lower rudder suddenly deflects to the left.

On 22 December 1999, Korean Air Cargo flight 8509 departs Stansted Airport, London bound for Milan, but less than a minute after it takes off, the plane crashes and kills all four crew members on board. Air accident investigators have to find out if the plane or crew error is to blame for the disaster.

A Boeing 727, on approach to Lindbergh Field, collides with a Cessna 172 over a residential area in San Diego causing both planes to crash and scattering body parts across a neighborhood.

Aviation investigators try to determine what caused a mid-air fire on Nigeria Airways flight 2120, chartered by Canadian airline Nationair, that on 11 July 1991 ultimately caused the death of all 247 passengers and 14 crew on board, the biggest loss of life for any Canadian airline and the worst disaster involving a DC-8.

See how one man's rage led to two minutes of terror for 42 passengers and crew aboard PSA Flight 1771.

On 24 May 1988, the pilots of TACA Airlines flight 110 achieve one of the most remarkable deadstick landings in commercial aviation history. Investigators have to determine why the engines of a brand new Boeing 737-300 failed in mid-flight.

Shocking discoveries come to light after two planes collide on the runway at one of Europe's busiest airports.

Meet the survivors of 1989's United Airlines Flight 232 and learn the remarkable story of their emergency crash landing.