Delta Airlines Flight 1141, headed to Salt Lake City, waits in line at DallasFort Worth Airport. Pilots turn off an engine to save fuel, but when moved to the front, they rush to restart it for takeoff. The plane barely lifts off, scratching its wing and falling soon after in a blazing catastrophe.

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00:00:00 Season 18 Episode 1 "Nuts & Bolts"
Moments after taking off from a California airport, an American cargo plane needs to make an emergency landing. The pilots manage to bring their DC8 to within sight of the runway, but the crippled plane crashes into an automobile salvage yard one mile east of the airport. To try to understand what went wrong, investigators call on a friend and colleague of the crew. But it will take more digging and hard evidence to understand what doomed the crew of Emery Worldwide Flight 17.

00:42:12 Season 18 Episode 2 "Blown Away"
TransAsia Flight 222 is forced to circle above the Taiwan Strait due to a cyclone, but tragedy strikes when the plane crashes on Penghu Island.

01:24:27 Season 18 Episode 3 "Deadly Distraction"
En route to Salt Lake City, Delta Airlines Flight 1141 crashes just moments after lifting off from DallasFort Worth airport and erupts into flames. Of the 108 people on board, 94 make it off the plane alive while 14 die trying to escape the smoke and flames. It’s clear that neither the runway nor the weather is to blame, so investigators know there’s a problem with either the plane itself or its configuration.

Mayday: Air Disaster is a dramatic nonfiction series that investigates highprofile air disasters to uncover how and why they happened. Mayday: Air Disaster follows survivors, family members of crash victims and transportation safety investigators as they piece together the evidence of the causes of major accidents. So climb into the cockpit for an experience you won’t soon forget.

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