
Mayday: Air Disaster
TAM Airlines Flight #3054 hurtles down the runway at top speed and crashes into a building.

TAM Airlines Flight #3054 hurtles down the runway at top speed and crashes into a building.

Three flight crews face different consequences after an engine separates in mid-air.

A plane begins to leak fuel over the Atlantic and must glide to safety.

Three flights ending in tragedy, prove that minor missteps during takeoff can be deadly.

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

Three planes fall prey to deadly winds.

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

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

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

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

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

An alarm warns the pilots of Flight 518 that they are dangerously close to the ground.

The consequences are disastrous when ice forms on an airplane's wings.

United Airlines Flight #232 is crippled when one of its three engines explodes.

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

Three flights suffer catastrophic computer errors.

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

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

Pilots face hostile fire and deadly risks in war zones around the world.

Investigators face a major challenge when looters make off with the Flight Data Recorder.