The inside story of one of history's most infamous and complex investigations: the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800.

An Italian passenger plane is blown out of the sky.

On July 11, 1991, the crew of Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 unsuccessfully tries to return to the airport after a burst tire creates an in-flight fire which causes 247 Nigerian pilgrims and 14 crew to perish.

The 2013 crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 in San Francisco shocks the nation.

A runway collision at a small airport turns tragic when passengers cannot escape the burning aircraft.

An investigation of a charter plane that moves off course and goes down in Canada's far north.

The crew of a commuter flight over France makes a sightseeing detour that sets off a deadly chain of events.

Hugo, a Category 5 hurricane, threatens to rip a plane apart.

Near the end of its flight, Continental Express Flight 2574 suffers wing damage and goes into a dive falling out of the sky.

A plane crash in New York just two months after 9/11.

A Northwest Airlines flight cruises above the Bering Sea before problems develop and pilots must make an emergency landing in Anchorage.

Atlantic Airways Flight 670 careened off the runway and became engulfed in flames.

When Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps, investigators discover shocking truths about the co-pilot's mental health.

When a commercial airliner goes down in eastern Ukraine in 2014, examiners must conduct an investigation in the middle of a war zone.

A seven-minute island-hop from Moorea to Tahiti ends in disaster.

The dashcam of a passing car captures stunning footage of the final moments of a Taiwanese commuter aircraft as it banks steeply, clips an elevated highway and nosedives into the river; investigators find no signs of pre-impact malfunction.

When an airbus A330 loses both engines, its pilots must think of a solution before they crash into the South China Sea.

A plane plunges into the frozen Potomac River in 1982.

A shocking look at the fate of United Airlines Flight 232 which crashed into Sioux City's runway in 1989 causing a subsequent explosion that left 111 people dead.

When a commuter turboprop plane crashes at an Irish airport, investigators uncover a startling gap in aviation safety.

A plane carrying Mexico's interior minister crashes into Mexico City's financial district.

Advanced computer graphics, forensic science, eyewitness accounts, interviews with experts, archival footage and re-enactments piece together in great detail the events that led to some of the biggest disasters of modern time.

"Dangerous Flights" goes inside the perilous business of aircraft delivery, following six pilots as they risk their lives to deliver small, used airplanes to destinations around the world. The business takes them from the frozen Siberian arctic to the Amazon rainforest, often through unpredictable situations and life-threatening weather conditions. Each episode features different "ferry-flying" missions, as the pilots battle co-workers, demanding customers and the elements in order to deliver the airplanes intact and on time.

"X-Ray Mega Airport" uses the latest technology to reveal the inner workings of Frankfurt Airport in Germany. The series employs computer-generated imagery to demonstrate what is underneath the surface of a plane, the internal space of a cargo-carrying truck, and even exposes what goes on in the minds of passengers and crew during a flight. The brain waves of a pilot are documented as he attempts to land an aircraft in crosswinds, and engineers are seen working on an Airbus A380's engine. Other episodes include the operations behind movement of luggage, how the conveyor belt system works and how controllers can single out pieces of luggage among thousands.

To soar through the skies is a dream. Modern technology has allowed human beings to take to the skies and while plane crashes are rare, there's still the issue of near misses. These technological advances are capturing these near misses on camera and cockpit recordings to provide insight as to the terror they can cause. See how pilot errors, technical failures, massive storms and small mistakes can place passengers into life or death situations and the why of these incidents and how to prevent them from reoccurring.

Taking to the sky in an airplane can be dangerous when the weather doesn't cooperate. This documentary series investigates aviation accidents and how the elements contributed to them. Interviews with witnesses and survivors, testimony by experts, and data from the plane's black box aid in exploring each incident. The FAA's case files are used to create animations to diagram what happened before each crash. Fog, haze and hail are some of the weather conditions responsible for the disasters.

You might say the Tweto family business has taken off, despite the sometimes unforgiving conditions in which it operates. The Twetos -- dad Jim, mom Ferno, and daughters Ariel and Ayla -- run Era Alaska, an airline that transports life's necessities to the isolated rural inhabitants of the Bering Sea coastline. Whether it's carrying sled dogs bound for the Iditarod race, medicine for sick children or food supplies to miners working on the North Slope, the Era Alaska crew serves as a lifeline for many of the state's residents.

Despite cameras and guards monitoring their every move, some prisoners are daring enough to test the system and execute a breakout. Told from the perspectives of both the escapees and the law enforcement teams tracking them, this series documents some of recent history's high-profile jailbreaks and the various methods officials use to outsmart the criminals, leading to their eventual recapture.

A look behind the scenes at how everyday things are manufactured. Typically each episode includes three to four products featured, with a mix consisting of common items such as jeans, aluminum foil and cereal, and less predictable ones like wax figurines, braille typewriters and pinball machines.

The life of an Alaskan bush pilot is never dull.