Mayday: Air Disaster
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Mayday: Air Disaster
In 1978, PSA Flight 182 collides with a Cessna and crashes into a San Diego residential area killing people on both planes and seven people on the ground.
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Mayday: Air Disaster
After a turboprop crashes in North Carolina, investigators resort to a risky test flight and uncover an industry-wide safety problem.
Mayday: Air Disaster
The crew of DHL Flight OO-LL must land the plane using only the engines to control the craft when a left wing explodes causing the plane to lose hydraulic pressure.
Mayday: Air Disaster
Internal US flight loses a propeller 19,000 feet over the Pacific Ocean.
Mayday: Air Disaster
A plane with members of the Manchester United football team crashes while heading home from Yugoslavia, killing 23 aboard.
Mayday: Air Disaster
Ninety-five people die when TAM Airlines flight 402 crashes seconds after take-off; experts investigate what went wrong.
Mayday: Air Disaster
When basketball legend Kobe Bryant is killed in a helicopter crash in Los Angeles, investigators look for clues amid a global deluge of grief.
Mayday: Air Disaster
Near the end of its flight, Continental Express Flight 2574 suffers wing damage and goes into a dive falling out of the sky.
The Accident Files
A look at how poor aircraft designs cause disasters.
Mayday: Air Disaster
A fire breaks out on UPS Flight six; as smoke fills the cockpit, getting the plane to safety is a race against time.
Mayday: Air Disaster
Asiana Flight 214 slams into a seawall just short of the runway in San Francisco.
Mayday: Accident Files
Three flight crews face different consequences for an engine separating in midair.
The Accident Files
A look at some of the most challenging landings of all time.
Mayday: Air Disaster
Moments before Pacific Southwest Flight 1771 crashes on a cattle ranch in California, gunshots are heard in the cabin.
Mayday: Air Disaster
An early-morning flight from Lexington, Ky. ends in disaster when a twin-engine jet careens off the tarmac.
Mayday: Air Disaster
Leading aviation experts are confronted with a shocking theory as they investigate one of the greatest aviation mysteries of all time.
Mayday: Air Disaster
When former race car driver Niki Lauda's planes nosedives into a Thai jungle, a one-in-a-million failure reveals a weak spot in every Boeing 767; radio silence between pilots and air traffic controllers send investigators hunting for answers.
Mayday: Air Disaster
In 1992, Flight 1862 from Amsterdam to Tel Aviv suffered a catastrophic crash; investigators subsequently discover a lethal problem threatening every 747.
Mayday: Air Disaster
A turboprop narrowly averts disaster after a lightning strike over the North Sea; investigators uncover an unusual feature in the plane that plays a key role in this calamity.
Mayday: Air Disaster
Investigation into the 2009 crash of Turkish Airlines Flight 195; just before landing in Amsterdam, the plane mysteriously fell from the sky, killing nine people.
The Accident Files
A look at accidents involving controlled flight into terrain.
Mayday: Air Disaster
Following a fatal crash in treacherous conditions at Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek airport, investigators make a shocking discovery on the runway.
Mayday: Air Disaster
Two minutes after Scandinavian Airlines Flight 751 leaves Stockholm in 1991, smoke filters through the cabin and both engines fail, one erupting into flames.
Mayday: Air Disaster
After Flydubai Flight 981 nosedives into the runway at Russia's Rostov airport, investigators uncover one of the most lethal traps in aviation.
Mayday: Air Disaster
A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 103, causing the aircraft to disintegrate in midair and the wreckage of the aircraft to crash into the Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing all 259 people on board and 11 people on the ground.
Mayday: Air Disaster
First Air Flight 6560 slammed into a hillside near Resolute Bay, one of the most remote airports in the world.
Mayday: Air Disaster
A complex recovery operation is launched to find out if a 747 which disappeared into the Indian Ocean was carrying illegal weapons.
Mayday: Air Disaster
United Airlines Flight 718 and Trans World Airlines Flight 2 collide midair over the Grand Canyon in Arizona, killing all 128 people on both aircraft in 1956.
Mayday: Air Disaster
A Russian pilot allowed his teenage son to take control of Aeroflot Flight 593, setting in motion a chain of events that caused the deaths of 70 people.
Mayday: Air Disaster
Experts face a tricky investigation into the crash of TANS Peru Flight 204 after key evidence is looted from the crash site.
Mayday: Accident Files
The simplest mistakes are at the heart of some of the worst airline accidents.
Mayday: Air Disaster
Martinair Flight 495, a DC-10, crashes when attempting to land at Portugal's Faro Airport amid thunderstorms and heavy rain.
Mayday: Air Disaster
On 12 November 2001, just two months after the September 11 attacks, American Airlines Flight 587 spirals out of control shortly after taking off from John F. Kennedy Airport and crashes into Queens.