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

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

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

A design flaw sends American Eagle Flight 41-84 smashing into a cornfield outside of Chicago.

Facing deadly tragedies that could have been avoided

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

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

In New Zealand, a commuter turboprop slams into hilly terrain.

A massive military training exercise confronts a real-life catastrophe in Canada’s high Arctic.

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

Germanwings Flight 9525.

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

Three flights suffer catastrophic computer errors.

With personality clashes in the cockpit, three flights end in tragedy.

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

Failures in pilot training lead to catastrophe in the cockpit.

Three flights end in tragedy when crews improvise on their final approach.

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

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

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

In Buenos Aires, LAPA Flight 3142 staggers until it collapses and explodes in flames.