
Mayday: Air Disaster
Spanair Flight 5022 attempts to takeoff from Barajas Airport, but stalls immediately and crashes.

Spanair Flight 5022 attempts to takeoff from Barajas Airport, but stalls immediately and crashes.

Polish President Lech Kaczynski is killed after his plane crashes in heavy fog.

Experts investigate the crashing of American Airlines Flight 587.

SilkAir Flight 185 is 35,000 feet above the jungles when the plane banks sharply to the right and crashes.

If pilots aren't prepared when the runway is in sight, a landing can quickly become a tragedy.

Experts investigate why Fine Air Flight 101 crashed into a building moments after take-off.

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

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

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

Landing on a Caribbean island in a tropical storm, a 737 crashes just short of the runway.

Blanketed by confusion and heavy fog, a DC-9 ends up directly in the path of an oncoming 727.

TWA Flight 800 explodes over Long Island.

In 1956, a mid-air collision sends two planes crashing into the Grand Canyon.

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown and 34 others die when their Air Force 737 crashes in Croatia.

Crossair Flight #3597 is on its final approach to Zurich. But the pilots cannot find the runway.

Varig Flight 254 disappears without a trace over the jungles of Brazil.

Experts investigate the crashing of American Airlines Flight 587.

In the extreme conditions of the far North, three flights fall out of the sky.

TWA Flight 800 explodes over Long Island.

The captain of AirAsia Flight 8501 overrides the computer's instructions, leading to a deadly stall.