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Arrow Air Flight 1285 with 248 American soldiers on board crashes seconds after refueling in Newfoundland.

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Split Decision

Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 crashes shortly after take off from London Stansted Airport on December 22, 1999.

Bad Attitude

SAS Flight 686 takes off from Milan's Linate Airport and moments later collides with a Cessna on the runway.

The Invisible Plane

A look at the fate of United Airlines Flight 232 which crashed into Sioux City's runway in 1989; it caused a subsequent explosion that left 111 people dead.

Impossible Landing

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Statistically, traveling by airplane is safer than driving and other forms of transportation, but when something goes wrong during a flight, it can be catastrophic with potentially hundreds of lives at stake. This series examines some of the world's worst air disasters, using official reports, transcripts and interviews with people involved to tell the stories of midair mishaps and discover what went wrong in each case. Episodes include a discussion of how the weather affects flights -- including stories of aviation disasters and near-misses -- and a New Year's Eve flight that fell from the sky into the Florida Everglades.

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Pilots of TACA Flight 110 make a remarkable landing on a narrow levee, but investigators must find out why the engines in a brand new plane failed.

S3 E11 | Nowhere to Land