Air Crash Investigation

Passengers and crew escape a jet that skids off the runway before catching fire.

Runway overruns have become far too common at airports, none more harrowing than the crash of Air France 358.

Witness the bizarre phenomena that overtook a 747 in 1982, and how it gave pilots a whole new danger to look out for.

A passenger jet over the Indian Ocean makes a desperate race back to land.

Witness the electrical fire that struck a DC-9 six miles in the air and the tragedy that occurred once the plane landed.

A DC-9 bursts into flames after it makes an emergency landing.

How could a modern aircraft and an experienced crew completely lose the airport as they come in for a landing?

A plane crash-lands in Guam after losing sight of the airport in a storm.

The longest NTSB investigation in aviation history involved not one plane crash, but two.

Witness the longest crash investigation in aviation history, involving three out-of-control Boeing 737s.

Watch a masterful feat of flying that saved a plane from crashing to the sea and the damning investigation that followed.

A 747's plummet toward the Pacific Ocean led to a miraculous rescue effort.

See how a midair collision over Cerritos, CA in 1986 led to a historic collision avoidance system still used today.

A midair collision over Cerritos, CA leads to improvements in the way planes are monitored.

The 1996 crash of US Air Force Flight IFO-21 and how it forced the military to change the way it operates.

See how a fatal combination of factors brought down a military 747 and took the life of a Democratic Party VIP in 1996.

An examination of the crash over the Red Sea in January 2004.

One of aviation history's strangest crashes and why it might remain a mystery forever.

Revisit the bizarre and deadly crash of Helios Flight 522, where all 121 aboard fell unconscious mid-flight, except one.

When a passenger plane starts circling Athens after shutting down communication, fighter jets are sent to investigate.