Season 3


Season 3 originally aired in 2006 and consists of 13 episodes. There were a total of 1338 fatalities in this season.



 Episode 1 |  Episode 2 |  Episode 3 |  Episode 4 |  Episode 5 |  Episode 6 |  Episode 7    
 Episode 8 |  Episode 9 |  Episode 10 |  Episode 11 |  Episode 12 |  Episode 13  


Episode 1 - Hanging by a Thread


  • On 28 April 1988, Aloha Airlines Flight 243 was en route from Hilo to Honolulu in Hawaii when the roof of the front fuselage was torn off sucking out a flight attendant. The aircraft landed safely at Kahului, Maui. The fuselage was torn off because of corrosion damage and metal fatigue.
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Episode 2 - Attack Over Baghdad


  • On 23 November 2003, the DHL OO-DLL just took off from Baghdad International Airport when the left wing exploded causing loss of hydraulic pressure. The crew successfully landed the aircraft using the engines to control the aircraft. A surface-to-air missile was fired at the aircraft.
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Episode 3 - Out of Control


  • On 12 August 1985, Japan Airlines Flight 123's rear pressure bulkhead burst, destroying the vertical stabilizer and rupturing all four hydraulic systems. The crew managed to keep the aircraft flying for a bit until it clipped a mountain ridge and crashed, killing 520 people.
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Episode 4 - Fight for Your Life


  • On 7 April 1994, Auburn Calloway, a disgruntled employee, attempted to hijack FedEx Flight 705 with hammers and a spear gun. The crew successfully subdued the hijacker and landed the aircraft safely.
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Episode 5 - Mistaken Identity


  • On 3 July 1988, during the Iran-Iraq War the USS Vincennes (CG-49) shot down Iran Air Flight 655 killing everyone on board. The crew of the Vincennes, despite its high-tech equipment, mistook the airliner for an F-14 Tomcat fighter jet.
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Episode 6 - Bomb on Board


  • On 11 December 1994, a bomb exploded on Philippine Airlines Flight 434, killing a passenger and damaging the aircraft's control systems. The crew successfully landed the aircraft in Okinawa. Ramzi Yousef, a terrorist smuggled the bomb aboard on the first leg of the flight.
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Episode 7 - Helicopter Down


  • On 19 January 1995, the crew of Bristow Flight 56C were forced to ditch into the sea, after lightning damaged the tail rotor. Despite the conditions, the sixteen oil rig workers and pilots were rescued.
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Episode 8 - Death and Denial


  • On 31 October 1999, EgyptAir Flight 990 dove out of the sky and crashed into the sea killing 217 people. The cause of the dive is disputed, the Egyptian government claims mechanical failure associated with the elevator controls caused the crash, while the US government claims the aircraft was deliberately crashed by the First Officer Gameel Al-Batouti in a suicide/homicide.
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Episode 9 - Kid in the Cockpit


  • On 23 March 1994, Aeroflot Flight 593 stalled and crashed killing 75 people. The pilot's 15 year old son accidentally disabled autopilot while in the captain's seat, causing the aircraft to bank heavy to the right creating the stall.
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Episode 10 - Head-On Collision


  • On 8 February 1986, a VIA Rail passenger train and a 118-car freight train collided, killing 23 people. The freight train crew did not stop at a red railway signal on a section of a passing loop.
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Episode 11 - Collision Course


  • On 26 September 2000, waves pushed the MS Express Samina off course causing it to hit a group of rocks and sink killing 80 people. The ferry was on autopilot with the crew not monitoring the ship's course.
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Episode 12 - Runaway Train


  • On 12 May 1989, a freight train derailed, killing five people. The train derailed from descending at high speeds from a pass in the mountains without air brakes and had been overloaded. More than a week later, an underground gasoline pipeline, which was damaged by earth-moving equipment during the crash cleanup, ruptured killing two more people.
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Episode 13 - Ocean Landing


  • On 23 November 1996, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 was forced to do a ditch after running out of fuel but the aircraft broke up as the wings hit the water, killing 125 people. The aircraft ran out of fuel because hijackers did not believe the pilots, that the aircraft did not have enough fuel to make it to the hijackers' planned location, Australia.
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