Air Disasters

On June 8, 1983, a Reeve Aleutian Airways Lockheed Electra nearly plunged 19,000 feet into the Pacific Ocean after one of its propellers tore from the aircraft.

The worst aviation disaster in Florida's history occurred on May 11, 1996. ValuJet Flight 592 crashed, killing all 10 aboard.

As a typhoon bears down on Taiwan, Singapore Airlines Flight 006 hurtles down the runway through high winds and rain.

It's a clear and calm December day in 1997 when a Boeing 737 suddenly plummets from the sky into an Indonesian jungle.

Join the investigation as examiners use all of their creativity to determine why TANS Peru Flight 204 fell from the sky.

Two commercial airliners go missing over the Arizona desert, and are later found in pieces, scattered along the Grand Canyon floor.

It was the deadliest aviation disaster in U.S. history of its time, the 1979 crash of American Airlines Flight 191.

Just minutes before touching down in Portland International Airport, all four engines of a DC-8 mysteriously flame out.

A Russian passenger jet crashes into the Volga River, killing almost everyone on board.

Polish Air Force Tupolev Tu-154M: It was an air disaster that crippled a country, heightened tensions between two nations, and ignited conspiracy theories worldwide.

Five minutes into Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409, something goes wrong.

Santa Barbara Airlines Flight 518 embarks on a from Merida, Venezuela to Caracas and crashes minutes later.

On June 1, 2009, a modern Airbus A330, traveling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, vanished somewhere over the Atlantic.