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

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.

SAS Flight #686 lifts off in heavy fog at Milan’s Linate Airport but moments later collides with a Cessna on the runway. It is the worst accident in Italian aviation history.

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.