
Mayday: Accident Files
The consequences are disastrous when ice forms on an airplane's wings.

The consequences are disastrous when ice forms on an airplane's wings.

The simplest mistakes are at the heart of some of the worst airline accidents.

The investigation into a doomed cargo plane reveals a troubling list of maintenance failures.

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

When a fire breaks out on UPS Flight six, getting the plane to safety becomes a race against time.

United Airlines Flight #232 is crippled when one of its three engines explodes.

Asiana Flight 214 slams into a seawall just short of the runway in San Francisco.

A plane carrying Russian tourists crashes in the Sinai Desert; terrorists claim responsibility.

PSA Flight #182 collides with a Cessna and both planes crash into a quiet residential neighborhood below.

A commercial airliner goes down in the Ukraine, and the evidence indicates that it was shot down.

Aviation experts are confronted with a shocking theory for the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

A look at the frightening crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 in 2010.

Continental Airlines Flight 1404 careens off the runway and crashes in flames.

Copa Airlines Flight 201 disappears from radar over one of the remotest jungles on earth.

An African airliner mysteriously disappears from radar and crashes in Namibia.

When an aircraft loses total engine power, a pilot's training can make all the difference in the world.

Gunshots are heard in the cabin of Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight #1771.

Spatial disorientation is one of the leading causes of all air accidents.

Three mysterious accidents send investigators hunting for clues.

Experts investigate the crashing of American Airlines Flight 587.