Air Crash Investigation - Season 13 (2014)

After Air Florida flight 90 crashes on take-off from Washington D.C., it is not easy to find the cause of the accident. It turns out eventually that this was no accident but simple and deadly oversight.

A plane crash (American Airlines flight 587) in New York just two months after 9/11.

Hugo, a category 5 hurricane, threatens to rip a plane apart.

When Itavia flight 870 goes missing over the Mediterranean sea, a conspiracy theory of a missile strike surfaces. Was the plane shot down by a Libyan fighter jet?

During an in-flight test for XL Airways Germany Airbus A320, the aircraft suddenly pitches up, loses lift, then crashes into the sea.

A popular Twin Otter aircraft crashes shortly after take-off in Tahiti. A bad maintenance decision and a series of other factors combined together create just the right recipe for disaster.

An emergency landing is forced by pilots after an engine explodes. [ Airbus A380 Airliner ]

A special showing how people survived certain air crashes and how airline crews are trained to facilitate survival of the passengers.