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

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

Three separate crews are pushed to the limit by the toughest landings on earth.

Three catastrophes are averted by flight crews who land against all odds.

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

The turboprop plane begins its descent in thick fog, but things go awry; Luxair Flight 9642 crashes.

China Airlines Flight 611 vanishes from radar; a massive rescue follows, but all aboard are lost.

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

With flames burning through the cabin floor, the crew attempts a return to the airport.

Experts make an astonishing find as they investigate the fate of Garuda Indonesia Flight 200.

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

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

Alaska Airlines Flight 261 suddenly nosedives into the Pacific.

John F. Kennedy Jr. is piloting his brand new Piper Saratoga when the aircraft mysteriously disappears.

The United Nations DC-6 mysteriously crashes 10 miles from the runway while on a secret mission.

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

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

A turboprop slams into an Argentine desert and a microscopic filament provides the clue.

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

Flight 173 is troubleshooting a minor landing gear problem when the plane loses all four engines.

Three horrifying flights gone wrong rain terror from the sky.