
The Final Blow
Air Inter Flight #148 starts its descent towards Strasbourg airport.

Air Inter Flight #148 starts its descent towards Strasbourg airport.

West Caribbean Airways Flight #708 is flying through a moderate hurricane when the aircraft drops.

Cruel Skies revisits four pivotal aviation disasters and near-misses.

The pilots of TACA Flight #110 manage one of the most remarkable landings in the history.

Air France Flight 358 bursts into flames when it skids off the runway during a raging thunderstorm.

Express Samina is on its normal route when it smashes into a huge rock.

Partnair Flight 394, en route from Oslo to Hamburg, suddenly dives from 22,000 feet toward the sea.

Immediately after take off, the pilots begin to experience a confusing set of alarms.

Minutes after take off from Tokyo en route to Osaka, the tailfin blows off the huge Boeing 747.

Investigators first suspect there was a bomb on board Continental Express Flight #2574.

United Airlines 585 and US Air 585 crash within several years of each other.

In the final seconds of the flight, the plane suddenly falls from the sky.

When Adam Air Flight 574 crashes into the sea, investigators are shocked by what caused the disaster.

The pilots are bound for Phoenix Arizona, but first they have to find their runway.

In Algiers on Christmas Eve in 1994, an Air France Airbus carrying 180 people was hijacked.

TAM Airlines Flight #3054 hurtles down the runway at top speed and crashes into a building.

United Airlines Flight #1549 collides with a flock of birds. Both engines suddenly lose all thrust.

As the aircraft is accelerating, a loud ‘thud' emanates from the fuselage, and the pilots abandon takeoff.

A hi-jacked Ethiopian Airlines 767 runs out of fuel near the Comoros Islands.

Ripped Apart revisits some of the most spectacular aviation disasters of the last fifty years.