Smithsonian Channel TV Schedule & Listings Guide

Take a cruise where the guests choose the ports to visit and the captain and crew work overtime to make it happen.

Engine failure, a suspicious package, and violent Alaskan weather put air missions and the entire city of Anchorage at risk.

Witness wild weather, emergency landings, animal invaders, and pandemic panics at Alaska's Ted Stevens Airport (ANC).

[EPG Series] Witness wild weather, emergency landings, animal invaders, and pandemic panics at Alaska's Ted Stevens Airport (ANC).

Witnessing wild weather, emergency landings, animal invaders, and pandemic panics at Alaska's Ted Stevens Airport (ANC).

The inside story of the massive military transport aircraft, the C-17.

The story of the world's first nuclear bomber, the B-29, and its explosive impact on aerial warfare.

The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is one of the most famous bombers of the US Air Force in World War II; among other things, the plane delivered food to the German-occupied Netherlands.

The inside story of the massive military transport aircraft, the C-17.

The story of the world's first nuclear bomber, the B-29, and its explosive impact on aerial warfare.

The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is one of the most famous bombers of the US Air Force in World War II; among other things, the plane delivered food to the German-occupied Netherlands.

A simple error years prior causes the deadliest single-plane crash in history.

SAS Flight 686 takes off from Milan's Linate Airport and moments later collides with a Cessna on the runway.

A propeller breaks off and rips a hole in the fuselage of an aircraft en route from Alaska to Washington 19,000 feet over the Pacific Ocean.

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.

The 2000 crash of an Alaska Airlines plane just off the California coast leads to a disturbing discovery about the company's cost-cutting procedures.

UPS Airlines Flight 1354 clips the tops of trees and crashes into a hillside about one nautical mile short of the runway during final approach to Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport in Alabama.

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

Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 crashes into mountainous woodlands while trying to land at Polonia International Airport in Medan, North Sumatra, in low visibility.

On its final approach to Charlotte, N.C., US Air Flight 1016 is engulfed in intense rain obstructing the view from the cockpit; the pilots abort the landing, but the aircraft crashes to earth, hurtling along a road and breaking apart.

Three catastrophic runway collisions raise the same pressing question; a look at how two planes end up on the same runway at the same time.

After a seemingly routine landing, a Boeing 737 erupts in flames, putting 165 debarking passengers and crew in jeopardy.

A pilot heads for a decommissioned air force base when the Boeing 767 jet he is flying unexpectedly runs out of fuel.

Air France Flight 296 fails to regain altitude after performing a flyby during an air show at Mulhouse-Habsheim Airport.

A bomb explodes on Air India Flight 182 en route from Canada to India causing it to disintegrate over the coast of Ireland.