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Investigators are trying to pinpoint what caused the engine fire that left a research plane carrying hurricane hunters inoperable. The aircraft had been on a daring mission into the very centre of Hurricane Hugo.

Specialists examine what triggered the explosion of Itavia Flight 870. The aircraft crashed into the Tyrrhenian Sea between Ponza and Ustica in June 1980.

The programme reconstructs the 2007 disaster in which Air Moorea Flight 1121 crashed just a minute after taking off from the French‑Polynesian island. The crash killed the pilot and all 19 passengers on board.

The series tracks the odd paths taken by items left behind at airports. A team operating out of Denver and Salt Lake City works to get travellers their lost possessions – from Native regalia to a taxidermied rat and a championship ring.

At the airport, staff are determined to return passengers’ missing belongings. Their efforts cover everything from a prosthetic eye and a Gucci bag to a family’s cherished Rolex.

Viewers are given the chance to buy items without leaving their homes. The programme lets you shop straight from the screen.

Viewers are given the chance to buy items without leaving their homes. The programme lets you shop straight from the screen.

Viewers are given the chance to buy items without leaving their homes. The programme lets you shop straight from the screen.

Teleshopping is a programme aimed at viewers aged seven and up. It carries a 7+ classification.

Bjoern puts everything on the line to rescue a tractor, and Thord ends up stuck in the mud while aiding a truck. When a winch wire slips, Jo worries disaster is about to strike.

Thord and Bjoern are pushed to their limits. They must stop a truck from plunging into a lake.

Thord and Bjoern wrestle with one of Norway's most severe storms in a decade. They're trying to rescue a truck that’s carrying steel girders.

Tim and Fuzz are restoring a 1984 Opel Manta GTE owned by a former amateur rally driver. His family hope that a fully restored car will coax him out of his shell.

Fuzz and Tim head to County Durham to covertly restore an Austin Healey for John, who's living with Parkinson's disease. They set out to turn his classic‑car dream into reality.

The programme presents dramatised re‑enactments of real air disasters. It also features interviews with aviation experts and eyewitnesses.

Experts set out to uncover how a Boeing 737 drifted more than 1,000 km off its planned route. The aircraft later crashed in a remote part of the Amazon jungle in September 1989.

At Rome’s Fiumicino airport, the judicial police suspect a man of concealing narcotics beneath his trousers, while an Albanian woman panics after being refused entry to Italy.

A suitcase is found with a hidden compartment. Tests confirm the presence of explosives, and a woman is duped into carrying cocaine‑soaked clothes.

An explosives alert is raised in baggage, and mice jeopardise the safety of the airfield taxiways. At the same time, strong winds make moving aircraft difficult.

King Tut's death mask is subjected to a forensic examination. Experts are hunting for a solution to one of the biggest mysteries surrounding the famous treasure.

Marcus Attilius, a Roman in debt, is forced to become a gladiator in Pompeii. He gains fame in the deadly arena, but an even greater danger – Vesuvius – looms on the horizon.

Archaeologists are led to ruins in Austria, Tunisia and Rome. Their investigations uncover the story of the empire’s collapse.

A documentary examines an underground burial chamber in Egypt. Egyptologist Dr Ramadan Hussein thinks he’s found a concealed room at the base of a 100‑foot shaft.

Dr Hussein and his team investigate a chamber that houses a single sarcophagus. They then try to lift the five‑tonne lid to reach the mummy inside.