
Mayday: Accident Files
Distracted and in a rush, three flight crews make deadly decisions.

Distracted and in a rush, three flight crews make deadly decisions.

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

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

Three flights suffer catastrophic computer errors.

A car's dash cam captures footage of the final moments of TransAsia Airways Flight 235.

Reeve Aleutian Airlines Flight #8 is 19,000 feet over the Pacific Ocean when the propeller flies off.

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

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

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

Critical mistakes in the cockpit cause three planes to fall out of the sky.

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

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

Thai Airways Flight 311 crashes into the Himalayas, far from its projected flight path.

LaMia Flight 2933 is on its final approach when the crew suddenly declares a fuel emergency.

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

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

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

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

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

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