Air Crash Investigations

A look at five different aviation disasters and how they forced air traffic controllers to change overburdened control systems.

A look at the important contribution of the US Aviation Weather Centre in Kansas City. Accurate weather forecasting is vital to the aviation industry.

Investigators attempt to get to the bottom of how a flight with 137 people on board become one of Britain's worst aviation disasters, without even leaving the runway.

Shortly after taking off from Detroit in 1987, Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes, resulting in one of the worst aviation disasters in American history.

Investigators determine the cause of a public demonstration gone wrong, when Air Flight France 296 failed to regain altitude after performing a flyby.

An air traffic controller's unfortunate mistake causes the fatal collision of two planes sharing one runway during 1991.