Mayday - Air Disasters

TAM Airlines Flight 3054 careens off runway 35L at Brazil's Congonhas Airport and crashes into a warehouse adjacent to a filling station.

West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 stalls while cruising and crashes in rural Venezuela during a severe thunderstorm.

Arrow Air Flight 1285 carrying troops of the US Army stalls and crashes just seconds after taking off. The cause of the crash remains disputed.

Continental Express Flight 2574 tips into a dive and falls out of the sky, killing all 14 people on board.

British European Airways Flight 609 carrying members of the Manchester United football team crashes into a house in Munich.

Northwest Airlines Flight 85 is cruising above the Bering Sea when the lower rudder segment suddenly deflects to the left.

Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 crashes into a field about 55 seconds after taking off.

Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182 collides with a light aircraft and crashes in a residential area in San Diego.

Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 tire bursts during the takeoff, starting a fire on the landing gear.

Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 crashes at the speed of sound on a mountainside in rural San Luis Obispo County, California.

TACA Airlines Flight 110 flies through a thunderstorm and suffers a dual engine flameout.

Scandinavian Airlines Flight 686 collides with an Air Evex business jet carrying four people bound for Paris.

The tail-mounted number two engine of United Airlines Flight 232 explodes, causing serious damage to the aircraft's hydraulic systems and leaving the flight controls unusable.