
Mayday: Air Disaster
The crash of American Eagle Flight 4184 near Roselawn, IN, an ATR-72 that got caught in icing conditions.

The crash of American Eagle Flight 4184 near Roselawn, IN, an ATR-72 that got caught in icing conditions.

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

Airline owner and Formula One driver Niki Lauda uncovers a shocking design flaw affecting passenger planes.

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

From delusional hijackers to suicidal pilots, three flights fall victim to astonishing acts of sabotage.

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

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

Flydubai Flight 981 enters a rapid descent and crashes nose-first at Rostov-on-Don Airport.

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

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

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

Confronting a crisis, unwitting pilots create far more serious problems.

Arrow Air Flight #1285 refuels in Newfoundland but just seconds after taking off, the plane crashes.

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

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

In 1985, a DC-9 airliner crashes seconds after takeoff from Milwaukee.

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

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

Radio silence between pilots and air traffic controllers can mean many different things.

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