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

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

A small commuter plane, Air Midwest Flight 5481, is on a short flight when disaster strikes.

An explosion jolts the pilots of PA 434. A bomb has gone off and there's extensive damage to the plane.

The pilots, wanting to make up for lost time, are pushing the Boeing 757 to its limit.

During British Airways Flight 009's flight to Australia, smoke starts filling the cabin of a passenger jet.

Avianca Airlines Flight 52 was flying in blue skies when it was put in its first holding pattern.

British Airways Flight #38 is preparing to land. Then, the aircraft is inexplicably crippled.

At the height of thunderstorm season, American Airlines 1420 ends in disaster.

A military radar operator mistakenly identifies an approaching civilian aircraft as a hostile F-14.

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

The plane plows into a forest and is consumed by flames.

A C-5 Galaxy evacuating orphaned Vietnamese babies from Saigon faces disaster at 23,000 feet.

A Boeing 767 slams into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 217 people on-board, the questions start flying.

The crew and passengers aboard British Airways Flight 111 know something is terribly wrong.

It's one of the most alarming disasters in the history of aviation, and not just because of the crash.

The pilot of Swissair Flight 111 smells smoke in the cockpit less than an hour after take-off.

China Airlines Flight 611 vanishes from radar a massive rescue follows, but all aboard are lost.

SAS Flight #686 lifts off in heavy fog at Milan's Linate Airport but moments later collides with a Cessna.

The pilots of Northwest Airlines Flight #85 barely get their crippled 747 to Alaska for an emergency landing.

Nigeria Airways Flight #2120 erupts into a fireball, killing all 261 people on board.