What caused a routine, 20-minute commuter flight to end in disaster? The NTSB's Alaska Regional Office aims to find out.
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Documentary20161 SeasonTV-14It's the nation's largest state -- and home to some of the most challenging flying conditions.
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Trapper Creek Tragedy
Follow Alaska's lead NTSB investigators as they try to find the cause of two mysterious Cessna crashes.
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Engine Out in Midair
What caused a Cessna 180 to go down on a routine flight, in good weather, just miles from its destination?
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Plane Down in the Tundra
A flight to a prime fishing spot in Cape Douglas turns disastrous and it's up to NTSB's Alaska office to find out why.
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Lost Over the Inlet
Follow Alaskan NTSB investigator Shaun Williams as he searches for a missing plane, a missing pilot, and missing evidence.
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Stalled Over the Highway
Join the investigation of a Big Lake crash, and the fight against dwindling daylight, lost evidence, and dead-end clues.
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Alaska Aircrash Investigations
A wedding flyover that turned tragic. A commuter flight that mysteriously veered off course and slammed into a mountain. A pilot and passenger who survived a crash only to succumb to the raging currents of an icy waterway. These are just a few of roughly 100 aircraft accidents that occurred in Alaska in 2015 and challenged one of the busiest and most unique offices of the National Transportation Safety Board. Follow NTSB investigators as they attempt to determine the probable cause of each crash, be it man, machine or environment.
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Alaska Aircrash Investigations
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