Mayday: Air Disaster

While landing at Sao Paolo’s notoriously treacherous airport, TAM Airlines Flight #3054 hurtles down the runway at top speed and crashes into a building and adjacent gas station.

Pummeled by turbulence, West Caribbean Airways Flight #708 is flying through a hurricane when the aircraft mysteriously drops from the sky and crashes on a remote Venezuelan farm.

With 248 elite American soldiers on board, Arrow Air Flight #1285 refuels in Newfoundland but just seconds after taking off, the plane crashes igniting a storm of controversy.

Investigators first suspect there was a bomb on board Continental Express Flight #2574, but when the theory is dismissed, they reveal a story of good intentions gone horribly wrong

Eight Manchester United football players are killed in a Munich plane crash and when the surviving pilot is blamed, his struggle to clear his name spans more than two decades.

Northwest Airlines Flight #85 barely gets to Anchorage, Alaska for an emergency landing. It’s up to investigators to determine what caused the pilots to lose control of the plane.

After less than a minute in the air, Korean Air Cargo Flight #8509 slams into a field northeast of London. It is the airline’s fifth major accident in two years.

Just minutes from landing PSA Flight #182 collides with a Cessna and both planes crash into a residential neighborhood below. It is the biggest airline disaster in American history

Minutes after taking off from Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah airport, Nigeria Airways Flight #2120 erupts into a fireball, killing all 261 people on board.

Gunshots are heard in the cabin of Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight #1771 and moments later the aircraft crashes into a remote field. The FBI steps in to figure out what happened.

The pilots of TACA Flight #110 manage one of the most remarkable landings in the history of commercial aviation. It’s up to investigators to determine why the engines failed.

One of the three engines on United Airlines Flight #232 explodes, knocking out the hydraulic system. The pilots manage a crash landing that claims 111 of the 296 people on board.