Dangerous Flights

Cory Bengtzen walked away from a lucrative car dealership to embark on a risky new career path: a used airplane delivery business. So far, it's beginning to look like a crash and burn endeavor. On the company's inaugural missions, two trans-global "ferry flights" over unforgiving waters, he and his team of daring cowboy pilots encounter wild weather, dangerous airstrips, and a series of mechanical failures. Enter the cockpit and see if this new business will finally take off, or if Cory's on a disaster collision course.

Cory Bengtzen feels the stress of running a new aircraft delivery company when two of his pilots walk out on a job, With his company's reputation on the line, he has no choice but to deliver the plane himself. Join him and Randy McGehee as they play a deadly game of country hopscotch. Then climb into the cockpit with new pilots Kerry McCauley and Stu Sprung as they race against a tight deadline with a hurricane on their heels. For Cory and his team, these jobs feel more like kamikaze missions.

Dense jungles, steep learning curves, and big personalities cause turbulence and tension during two pressure-filled aircraft deliveries. Jump into the cockpit with owner Cory Bengtzen and co-pilot Kerry McCauley as they try to find their feet as a team while flying over the Amazon rainforest. Then follow pilot Randy McGehee on a U.N. relief mission to war-ravaged South Sudan, aboard a 1998 Dornier. It's a plane Randy's never flown, and he has just 48 hours to master it before embarking on the 6,000-mile journey.

The business of selling and delivering small, secondhand planes is rife with risk. Usually, it's the aircrafts causing the peril, but on occasion it's the pilots. Can professional air racer Pete Zaccagnino shake off the recent death of a friend at the Reno Air Races and deliver a plane from England to the U.S.? Meanwhile, pilot Randy McGehee, fresh off a mission to South Sudan, is immediately called upon to fly to Brazil. He accepts the job, but a lack of sleep and the constant jumping of time zones are beginning to take a toll.

Cory's business is taking off. The demand for small plane deliveries is mounting, and so is the pressure for his team of cowboy pilots. Take an 11,000-mile island-hopping journey from Australia to the U.S. aboard the Phenom 100, a high-tech executive jet. It's the first time Kerry has flown one, and he needs to learn quickly. This mission will take him to the edge of North Korean airspace and into a blinding storm in Russia. Meanwhile in Grenada, Cory and Randy have visibility issues of their own, battling through black skies to find a safe place to land.

"Flights from hell" are part of the job, but this time, the nightmares are happening on the ground. Ferry pilots Kerry McCauley and Stu Sprung are called upon to fly a '78 Piper Navajo Chieftain to Argentina. Unfortunately, they lack the proper paperwork, an offense that could lead to major fines and a possible prison sentence. Meanwhile, in Florida, Pete Zaccagnino and Brad White face another kind of confinement, courtesy of a uncooperative 32-year-old Piper Cheyenne. If they had their way, this "hangar queen" would be on a one-way trip to the scrap heap.

Pete Zaccagnino and Brad White's frustration with the lemon they're flying to the Philippines turns to terror when the plane's windshield heater malfunctions over Alaska. Watch their hellish landing as Pete, with nothing but an icy view in front of him, must rely on instincts and experience to bring the aircraft down. Then witness a battle for command halfway around the world, as Kerry McCauley and Stu Sprung fight for the right to captain a high-tech, high performance Cirrus on its epic journey of almost 12,000 miles from Singapore to the U.S.

Ferry fliers Stu Sprung and Kerry McCauley are caught in the teeth of a desert storm while flying over the Middle East. Navigating around the thunderhead is not an option, as it would take them into Iraqi airspace. Meanwhile, their boss Cory Bengtzen and Randy McGehee are caught in their own battle for survival, flying through North Eastern Russia. Witness the effects of hypothermia firsthand as the two desperately fight to keep their body heat, judgment, and reaction times up amid rapidly dropping temperatures.