Mayday: Air Disaster

A private Learjet goes rogue. Air traffic controllers are unable to reach the crew, and as the plane continues its unplanned trajectory, it’s obvious that something has gone wrong.

It is September 11th, 2001, and shortly after taking off from Washington DC, hijackers storm the cockpit of American Airlines Flight 77 and fly the plane into the Pentagon.

Pan Am Flight 1736 is on the runway when KLM Flight 4805 careens toward it. Killing 583 people, the high-speed collision remains the single deadliest aviation accident of all time.

China Airlines Flight 120 touches down in Okinawa, Japan. Just as the pilots complete the shutdown checklist, a fire erupts and the aircraft is engulfed in flames.

Proteus Airlines Flight 706 deviates from the flight path to go on a sightseeing detour. But just as they’re completing a 360 around the ship, Flight 706 suddenly explodes.

Continental Express Flight 2286 is about to touch down when it crashes in the frozen wilderness just a few miles from the runway.

Germanwings Flight 9525 is flying towards the French Alps when an air traffic controller spots something unusual—the flight is losing altitude at an alarming rate.

Cruising high above the islands of Indonesia during the unpredictable rainy season, Garuda Indonesia Flight 421 flies straight into the eye of a massive storm.

AirAsia Flight 8501 disappears from radar above the Java Sea, and two days later, searchers confirm the worst, all 162 people on board are dead.

Within seconds of take off, National Airlines Flight 102 suddenly stalls and crashes to the ground. The accident is captured by a passing dashcam.