
Mayday: Air Disaster
Tuninter Flight 1153 is flying to the Tunisian resort island of Djerba. Suddenly, its right engine fails.

Tuninter Flight 1153 is flying to the Tunisian resort island of Djerba. Suddenly, its right engine fails.

Experts investigate the crashing of American Airlines Flight 587.

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

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

Chalk's Ocean Airways flight 101 crashes just after take-off from Watson Island in Miami.

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

Devastating failures in the air shine a light on three astonishing feats of flying.

Researchers investigate the destruction of an aircraft designed for suborbital flight.

Investigators dig into three mid-air collisions that seem to defy logic.

A missing pilot played a role in a 1996 collision between United Express 5925 and a private plane.

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

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

Three horrific aviation disasters are all linked to breakdowns in vital security measures.

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

In September 1989, Partnair Flight 394 crashed into the sea killing all 55 people on board.

FedEx Flight 80 bounces off the runway at Tokyo’s Narita Airport and bursts into flames.

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

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

While landing at an Alaskan island airport, the pilots of a twin turboprop can't stop their plane.

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