Mayday: Accident Files
Critical mistakes in the cockpit cause three planes to fall out of the sky.
Critical mistakes in the cockpit cause three planes to fall out of the sky.
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Spatial disorientation is one of the leading causes of all air accidents.
Korean Air Cargo Flight #8509 slams into a field northeast of London.
China Airlines Flight 611 vanishes from radar; a massive rescue follows, but all aboard are lost.
A turboprop slams into an Argentine desert and a microscopic filament provides the clue.
Asiana Flight 214 slams into a seawall just short of the runway in San Francisco.
Continental Flight 1713 crashes on take-off in Denver amid heavy snow.
A popular hockey team is on its way to Minsk. But, the plane strikes a tower and crashes.
A fast spreading fire damages systems causing Swissair Flight 111 to crash into the Atlantic.
A chartered business jet operated by Avjet crashes, killing all 18 people on board.
Aviation experts determine what went wrong when a Concorde exploded into flames.
Three last-resort maneuvers where open water is the only available runway.
A missing pilot played a role in a 1996 collision between United Express 5925 and a private plane.
Three separate crews are pushed to the limit by the toughest landings on earth.
The landing gear of Eagle Airways Flight 2300 fails to extend while on approach to Wellington.
Experts investigate the crashing of American Airlines Flight 587.
Three planes fatally out of balance force investigators to question every calculation.
Three crews fall into the same deadly trap after getting lost in the dark.
When critical instruments in the cockpit can't be trusted, the consequences can be fatal.
The aircraft smashes into a mountaintop and is pulverized on impact instantly killing all 46 people on board.
Three doomed airlines are brought down by gradually deteriorating parts.
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