On August 31, 1988, Delta Airlines Flight 1141 crashed after taking off from Dallas-Fort Worth airport, the NTSB determined that it was caused by pilot error.
The story of an aircraft disaster in December of 1990 is shared, in which two Northwest Airlines jets collide on an active runway due to the dense fog.
Flight crews and passengers who have lived through airplane crashes share tips for survival, explaining whether the front or the back of the plane is safest.
A controversial theory emerges six years after EgyptAir Flight 804 falls into the Mediterranean Sea and the Egyptian authorities assume an act of terrorism.
On October 7, 2008, Qantas Flight 72 from Singapore Changi to Perth made an emergency landing at Learmonth airport near the town of Exmouth, Western Australia.
In 1961, a United Nations DC-6 fatally is involved in a crash on the way to Ndola Airport from Zambia, which kills the Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjold.
On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared while flying from Kuala Lumpur International Airport to Beijing Capital International Airport.
In Los Angeles, a controller sent a commuter plane onto a runway for takeoff just as a Boeing 737 was landing there, and their collision killed 37 people.
One of an Airbus A-380's engines explodes soon after taking off from Singapore, and the pilots have to hold the plane together and return to the airport.
On June 24, 1982, all the engines on British Airways Flight 009 mysteriously stop working, terrifying the passengers as the plane begins to fall from the sky.
After a difficult landing in a severe thunderstorm, Air France Flight 358 skids off the runway and crashes, causing a fire to start in the left engine.
A skilled captain manages to save his crippled aircraft and everyone on board, and then it's up to investigators to track down the microscopic culprit.
On November 15, 1987, Continental Airlines Flight 1713 crashed while taking off in a snowstorm from Denver, and the investigation reveals some chilling facts.
A maintenance worker's mistake while replacing a cockpit window causes the window to pop out in flight, and the captain is sucked partway through the hole.
In 1983 an Air Canada jetliner runs out of fuel at 41,000 feet, and the pilots are faced with the task of landing with almost all of their instruments disabled.
When seismic activity around Mount Spurr heats up, pilots fly supplies to farmers; the operations team at Anchorage Intl. deal with 2 emergency landings.
An Airbus A320 takes off from New York's LaGuardia Airport and lands in the Hudson River five minutes later after bird strikes disable all its engines.
On July 30, 1998, Proteus Airlines Flight 706, a commuter flight from Lyon, France to Lorient, France, collided with a light aircraft over Quiberon Bay.
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