Mayday - Air Disasters

Within minutes of take off, the crew and passengers aboard British Airways Flight 111 know something is terribly wrong.

On August 21, 1995, Flight ASA 529 loses one of its four propellers on its way to Gulfport, Mississippi.

In Algiers on Christmas Eve in 1994, an Air France Airbus carrying 180 people was hijacked by four Algerian terrorists just before take off.

A Russian plane carrying a group of school children heading to Spain is on a collision course with DHL cargo plane.

American Airlines Flight 965 was held on the tarmac for hours. The pilots, wanting to make up for lost time, are pushing the Boeing 757 to its limit.

Avianca Airlines Flight 52 en route to New York from Bogota, Colombia was flying in blue skies when it was put in its first holding pattern.