Emery Worldwide Flight 17, piloted by Captain Kevin Stables and First Officer George Land, encounters an emergency during takeoff due to a steep upward pitch and uncommanded left bank.

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Mayday: Air Disaster - From 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 DC-8 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

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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