UPCOMING EPISODES

In 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr.’s aircraft plunges into the Atlantic Ocean killing him, his wife Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy and her sister Lauren. This episode examines the factors at play which contributed to the crash looking back at JFK Jr.’s life and the experiences which shaped him – often through first-hand accounts from people who knew him. This is an investigation into one of the most magnetic personalities of the 20th century whose life was taken too early in an accident caused by a series of seemingly insignificant factors—that when tied together led to tragedy.

On March 20, 1990, a tour bus carrying Gloria Estefan, the singer star of the Miami Sound Machine, and her husband, son and two of her crew, was travelling through Pennsylvania’s snowy Poconos when a tractor-trailer had just jack-knifed across the icy road in front of Estefan’s bus. Her driver Ron Jones stopped in time to avoid collision but another 18-wheel truck slammed into them from behind once he had stopped. Gloria was thrown to the floor of the bus, her spine shattered. What caused the horrific crash and how did she manage to not only survive, but to get back on her feet?

On a sunny October day in 1997 music legend John Denver hopped into a small and sleek aircraft to go for a pleasure flight off the California coast. After his aircraft suddenly and mysteriously crashes into the Pacific Ocean some suspected the singer may have committed suicide or given his history of DUI’s he may have been intoxicated. The last man to see Denver alive gives his first-ever TV interview and recalls Denver in the minutes before he died – a personal and detailed account that has never been told. It’s revealed that Denver was neither drunk nor suicidal – the shocking cause of the accident comes down to a tiny mechanical detail that took the life of one of the world’s first celebrity activists.

from Santa Monica airport in his vintage WW2 restored fighter plane on March 5, 2015, he radioed the tower just minutes later saying something was wrong and he needed to land somewhere immediately. He managed to crash land on to a golf course, clipping a tree on the way down. Ford was critically injured, but a surgeon, who was on the course golfing when it crashed, pulled him out of the plane and helped him till paramedics arrived. Ford suffered amnesia in the accident and could not recall the events that led to the crash. Investigators studied the evidence and put the pieces together. One tiny part of the airplane, designed in the 1940’s, had not been replaced or even checked since Ford bought the plane 17 years before.

On Jan. 15, 2009, three minutes after takeoff on a routine flight from La Guardia, N.Y. to Charlotte, NC, US Airways Flight 1549 suddenly fell from the sky. Without power, veteran pilot Capt. "Sully" Sullenberger decided to ditch the Airbus A320-214 into the frigid waters of the Hudson River. Over the radio, he announced ‘brace for impact” and moments later the plane’s fuselage cracked open upon impact with the river. All 155 people aboard survived. The media called it the “Miracle on the Hudson”, and Sully was celebrated as a hero for his grace under pressure. How did Sully’s incredible instincts and skill save 155 lives in a situation where most other pilots would have failed?

This one-hour documentary special examines the multi-car accident involving Caitlyn Jenner (known as Bruce Jenner at the time of the crash) that resulted in the death of 69-year-old Kim Howe. Swirling around the incident were claims that Jenner was driving distracted as well as questions about whether paparazzi pursued him so aggressively they played a role the crash. On February 7, 2015 Jenner was driving his black Cadillac SUV while towing an off-road vehicle along the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu when he rear-ended Howe’s white Lexus, pushing it into oncoming traffic and head-on into another vehicle. Caitlyn Jenner: Collision Course pieces together the chain of events that led to the crash using footage from the scene, police records and interviews with eyewitnesses and members of law enforcement who responded to the crash. CGI reenactments provide a detailed look at how it all unfolded while celebrity insiders discuss the most provoking and controversial elements surrounding the incident.