AIR DISASTERS Returns to Smithsonian Channel

When planes crash, the world takes notice, and so do the experts, whose job it is to figure out what happened. Revisit some of history's most notorious air disasters, retold through eyewitness accounts and interviews with the investigators who ultimately determined what went wrong.

Brand-new season features the tragic stories of:

Delta Airlines Flight 1141 - crashed at Dallas-Fort Worth airport just moments after takeoff

Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 - shot down in 2014 in Ukrainian airspace amongst political conflict with Russia

China Airlines Flight 140 - More than 260 people are dead after a crash landing at Japan's Nagoya Airport, 25 years ago this spring

Air Disasters returns Sunday, January 6 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Smithsonian Channel