The flight crew struggles for control. But the disaster leaves an international team of investigators with troubling questions. Just two miles from the airport, Flight #2120 erupts into a fireball and plummets to the ground, killing all 261 people on board. But just a few seconds later, the plane banks sharply to the left and slams into a field northeast of London. Mechanical failure? A DHL courier plane is flying from Italy to Belgium. Amazingly, all 155 people on board...February 25th, 2009 - Arriving from Istanbul, Turkish Airlines Flight #1951 is on its final approach to Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. But when they do emerge from obscurity to unleash their horrific plans on innocent passengers, the destruction they inflict is epic. But just minutes later, Flight #182 collides with the Cessna and both planes crash into a quiet residential neighborhood below. Documentary showcasing various aircraft disasters (crashes, explosions, malfunctions, etc.) The crew desperately tries to restart their engines, but can't. May I turn this?" Can they figure out what went wrong in time to prevent another similar catastrophe?August 22nd, 1985 British Airtours Flight #28 is taking off from Manchester Airport for the Greek Island of Corfu. Korean Air Flight 801 is flying to Guam International Airport from Seoul, when it runs into bad weather. Against all odds, the co-pilot successfully lands the plane and miraculously the captain survives....On August 21, 1995, Flight ASA 529 took off from Atlanta, Georgia, headed for Gulfport, Mississippi. Remarkably one man survives and within hours, a major recovery effort has begun to retrieve the victims, the flight recorder, and the mangled wreckage from the ocean floor. After ruling out both a bomb and a gas tank explosion, investigators are stumped. A series of over-speed and stall warnings flood the cockpit display, and it's clear something is terribly wrong.
As they fall through the night the captain faces a difficult choice return to the nearest airport and risk crashing...In June of 1983, a small mechanical problem in the back of an Air Canada DC-9 quickly turned into an all-out emergency 10 kilometers in the air. The pilots restart both engines but almost immediately they overheat forcing the pilots to shut them down. After 30 minutes of wrestling with the wind, the pilots remain helpless as the plane crashes into the side of Mt. It is the biggest airline disaster in Norwegian history. The freight train slams through...Before a Southern Pacific Railroad freight train leaves the station on May 12, 1989, workers load the cars with some 2700 tonnes more weight that the conductor expects. But for investigators, that's only part of the story.The dashcam of a passing car captures stunning footage of the final moments of TransAsia Flight 235 as it banks steeply to the left, clips an elevated highway, and nosedives into Taipei's Keelung River. When the plane finally hits the runway in Cincinnati, all on board struggle to exit the burning plane as quickly as possible. For more information visit our Blame soon falls on one pilot, but as investigators sift through the evidence the true story behind the Tenerife...After a one-hour flight from Taiwan, China Airlines Flight 120 touches down in Okinawa, Japan. Lifeguards immediately race to the crash site but there are no survivors. Southern Airways flight 242 is en-route from Huntsville, Alabama to Atlanta, Georgia. They narrowly escape and their crippled plane manages to fly back through the storm. Can they figure out what went wrong in time to prevent another similar catastrophe?August 22nd, 1985 British Airtours Flight #28 is taking off from Manchester Airport for the Greek Island of Corfu.
All 68 people on board are killed instantly. Meanwhile, on the ground, a French journalist is horrified to realize that the Iraqi terrorist she is interviewing just ordered ground-to-air missiles aimed at an aircraft. In less than three minutes, the plane is completely engulfed by fire. It takes several hours to locate the crash site, and any hope of finding survivors quickly fades. And when their most vital piece of evidence fails to deliver, investigators scramble to find answers.A cargo jet plummets to earth in the Swedish Arctic. Tragically, it is called off by Japanese authorities who believe that no one survived the...On April 7, 1994, FedEx flight 705 is just finishing its climb out of Memphis, U.S. when an off-duty FedEx flight engineer suddenly storms the cockpit.