On the 12-hour trip from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) flies into Ukrainian airspace. Though Ukraine and Russia are embroiled in a territorial conflict in eastern Ukraine, both nations are still cooperating when it comes to commercial aviation. But MH17 disappeared from radar and evidence indicates the plane was shot down

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Mayday: Air Disaster - From Season 18 Episode 4: A commercial airliner goes down over a warzone in eastern Ukraine. The evidence indicates the plane was shot down by a surface-to-air missile. Amid speculation in the media and against the backdrop of war, investigators are determined to get answers for the families of the 298 victims, but they face political roadblocks at every turn.

Every time a plane crashes, the world takes notice. And so do the experts whose job it is to figure out what happened. Mayday 18 uncovers the truth behind the most legendary aviation disasters, and every episode features eyewitness accounts, captivating reenactments, state-of-the-art CGI, and interviews with the investigators who ultimately determined what went wrong.

This season on Mayday: Malaysia Airlines suffers a second catastrophic headline when Flight 17 is blown out of the sky in Ukrainian airspace; investigators must figure out how Virgin Galactic’s test mission ends up as a 35-mile long debris field in the desert; and, when a DC-8 plows into an auto salvage yard, investigators scour the wreckage and uncover a fatal human error.

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