
Mayday: Accident Files
Three last-resort maneuvers where open water is the only available runway.

Three last-resort maneuvers where open water is the only available runway.

A commuter plane is rocked by an explosion, but investigators find no evidence of a bomb on board.

Adam Air Flight 574 flies into a storm and crashes into the sea.

A deadly disaster in Brazil leaves a Sao Paolo neighborhood in flames.

Three flights ending in tragedy, prove that minor missteps during takeoff can be deadly.

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

United Express Flight 6291 crashes during its final approach only a mile from the runway.

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

A two-billion-dollar Stealth Bomber crashes in Guam.

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

Korean Air Cargo Flight #8509 slams into a field northeast of London.

Three horrifying flights gone wrong rain terror from the sky.

Investigators face a major challenge when looters make off with the Flight Data Recorder.

An alarm warns the pilots of Flight 518 that they are dangerously close to the ground.

Three flights suffer catastrophic computer errors.

Pilots face hostile fire and deadly risks in war zones around the world.

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

Investigators search for a flaw when Qantas Airways Flight 72 nearly falls out of the sky.

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

A massive military training exercise confronts a real-life catastrophe in Canada’s high Arctic.