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Cockpit Catastrophe
When the cockpit window of Sichuan Airlines 8633 explodes, the crew somehow battles gale-force winds and oxygen deprivation to...
Disasters Engineered
Engineers push the boundaries of innovation leading humanity towards our greatest achievements. Their failures are Icarus-like...
Jackie Chan's Green Heroes
Access details on Nat Geo's inspiring eco-programming.
Seconds From Disaster
Master Of Disaster
Master Of Disaster
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Wild Wind
A sudden calamitous event, causing great loss of life, damage, or hardship, like a flood, a tornado, an airplane crash, or an...
Deadly Solution
On 28 December 2014 Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 departed Indonesia for Singapore with 162 people on board. An hour later,...
Terror Over Egypt
Twenty minutes after leaving Egypt, a plane carrying Russian tourists falls out of the sky. Charred remains are all that's...
Blown Away
After circling above the Taiwan Strait to wait out a passing cyclone, TransAsia Flight 222 crashes on the Taiwanese resort...
Deadly Go Round
Just minutes from touching down, China Airlines Flight 140 falls out of the sky at Japan's Nagoya Airport.
Cockpit Killer
LAM Mozambique Airlines Flight 470 is headed for Luanda, Angola, when it disappears from radar. Rangers in a remote Namibian...
Playing Catch Up
A private jet shuttling business passengers to Akron, Ohio slams into an apartment building less than two miles from the...
Holding Pattern
Flydubai Flight 981 nosedives into the runway at Russia’s Rostov airport. And investigators uncover one of the most lethal...
Terror Over Michigan
After a Boeing 727’s near-fatal nosedive over Michigan, investigators risk their own lives to determine why TWA Flight 841...
Mixed Signals
Careening into a mountaintop just minutes from the runway, an American charter flight becomes the worst aviation disaster in...
Deadly Deception
The plan to save a Bulgarian airliner hinges on convincing the violent hijackers that their demands have been met before the...
Delivery to Disaster
An Amazon cargo plane nosedives into a swamp outside Houston, the evidence eventually leads investigators to a pilot with a...
Rolex: Heroes of the Ocean With Sylvia Earle
Oceanographer Sylvia Earle is probably more at home under the sea than she is on dry land. At least, that’s where this...
Trapped
Trapped