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25 January 1990. Fog over New York City meant that many planes were delayed from landing. For Avianca Flight 052 the delay was too long and it crashed.
When the navigation system on American Airlines Flight 965 went wrong just before landing, the experienced pilots stalled and crashed.
Seventy-one people died when two planes crashed into each other in mid-flight after receiving conflicting signals from air traffic control.
When an Air France Airbus was hijacked by four Algerian terrorists in 1994, the French authorities were left with no choice but to send in their special forces squad to kill the terrorists and free the passengers.
When Flight ASA 529 crashed after one of its propellers failed, many of the passengers were killed. The cause of the failure was corrosion.
When the windshield fell off the cockpit of a BA flight after take-off and the pilot was sucked out, his co-pilot had to fight to land the plane.
There are countless things that can happen at 39,000 feet . When a plane crashes, the world takes notice and so do the experts. Using captivating reconstructions, state-of-the-art CGI and interviews with investigators and pilots, Air Crash Investigation uncovers exactly what happened and why. This season looks at some of the most publicised plane crashes of the past few years, opening with the infamous Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 that was hit by a missile over a Ukrainian conflict zone causing the aircraft to break up. The flight was a tragedy that gripped the world, gaining widespread media attention. 15 months of intense investigation followed to determine exactly what happened. When we say ‘air crash' we don't just mean airplanes, this season we uncover the mechanics and human error behind the disintegration of the experimental Virgin Galactic Spaceship.