空难调查
History's most terrifying air disasters, and the investigations that followed, are revisited and reexamined.

Special — Multiple incidents: Three crashes that made front-page news around the world, and how intense media pressure shaped the investigations that followed.

Special — Multiple incidents, including LAPA Flight 3142, American Airlines Flight 587, and Colgan Air Flight 3407: Even highly trained crews can fall prey to the most basic mistakes — with devastating results.

Special — Multiple incidents: Mid-air and on-course collisions, and the systems built to keep aircraft — and vessels — safely apart.

Special — Multiple incidents: When an aircraft loses all engine power, training and airmanship become the last line of defense.

Special — Multiple incidents: Flights brought down not by their machinery but by the fuel meant to keep them flying — from mismanagement to mechanical failure.

Special — Multiple incidents: Aircraft fatally out of balance from misloaded or unsecured cargo — a risk that's entirely preventable, yet keeps recurring.

Special — Multiple incidents: Crashes that happened with the airport already in view, when the final moments of flight proved the most dangerous.

Special — Multiple incidents: Cockpits overwhelmed by conflicting information, where confusion in critical seconds turned recoverable situations into disasters.

Special — Multiple incidents: Flights that stopped responding to the outside world, and the race to understand what was happening on board.

Special — Multiple incidents: Hidden weaknesses engineered into aircraft long before takeoff, and the crashes that finally exposed them.

Special — Multiple incidents: Crews forced to make split-second decisions under extreme pressure — some heroic, some catastrophic.

Special — Multiple incidents: When the instruments pilots depend on begin feeding them lies, crews must decide what — and whether — to believe.

Special — Multiple incidents: Crashes that claimed prominent figures, and the extraordinary scrutiny those investigations drew.

Special — Multiple incidents: Disasters that began on the ground, when security measures meant to protect passengers failed.

Special — Multiple incidents: Aircraft brought down by terrain, and the technology developed to keep crews from flying into mountains they never saw.

Special — Multiple incidents: Passengers and crew who lived through the unthinkable, and what their stories reveal about surviving a crash.

Special — Multiple incidents: Disasters that reached beyond the aircraft, when falling planes and debris brought tragedy to those below.

Special — Multiple incidents: Crews who faced impossible circumstances and, through skill and nerve, gave their passengers a fighting chance.

Special — Multiple incidents: Small errors in hangars and workshops that grew into catastrophes at altitude.

Special — Multiple incidents: The most critical seconds of any flight — and the crashes that happened before aircraft ever truly left the ground.