The smaller jet miraculously lands with no injuries but the passenger jet nosedives into the Amazon rainforest. Ești acum înscris la newsletterul NatGeo.Ai fost dezabonat de la newsletterul nostru. Of the 52 passengers on board, 37 are dead. Mechanical failure? Peste tot în lume au loc accidente aviatice tragice sau cu repercusiuni mai puțin grave. Dropping thousands of feet in mere seconds, there is a massive explosion as the aircraft crashes into a farmer's field. Centrul de control este acum în alertă. But can they prevent an all-out armed conflict,...March 10th, 1989 Bound for Winnipeg, Air Ontario Flight #1363 prepares for takeoff after a brief layover at a remote Northern airport. It's the deadliest crash in Ireland in decades, and it's up to the Irish Air Accident Investigation Unit to figure out what went wrong. The plane explodes on impact. The crew shuts down the engine and tries to land at a nearby airport, but their second engine fails before they can get safely on the ground. Already pelted with icy rain, the pilots are struggling to navigate their way through the blinding storm when the unthinkable happens: their helicopter is struck by lightning. Aeronava se prăbuşeşte şi 130 de oameni îşi pierd viaţa. A huge chunk of the plane's roof and walls is missing, right down to the passengers' feet. Bashing in the crew members skulls with a hammer and armed with a spear gun, the crazed attacker seems intent on killing the crew and taking over the plane. It is Korean Airlines' fifth major accident in two-and-a-half years and as investigators unravel the case, their search for answers...Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight #182 Boeing 727 On its early morning run down the California coast, PSA Flight #182 is arriving at San Diego's Lindbergh Airport. In Manchester, a holiday flight bound for the Mediterranean faces an inferno on the runway. Hoping to save fuel during the last leg of its marathon flight from New York to Seoul, it requests permission to fly at a higher altitude. Află cum au reuşit piloţii să evite catastrofa.Descoperă modificările aduse aeroportului Linate din Milano, ca urmare a coliziunii tragice cauzate de condiţiile meteo din octombrie 2001.Piloţii cursei United Airlines 232 au încercat să aterizeze cu motoarele avariate, însă aeronava a explodat, ucigând jumătate din pasageri.O cursă Crossair se apropie de Zurich. That is, until the pilots hear gunshots in the cabin. Investigators eventually discover the cause is a rare weather phenomena - and a fatal design flaw.By the time the crew of Delta Airlines Flight 191 reached the threshold of Dallas Fort Worth Airport, they'd already diverted around 2 separate storms. An unprecedented disaster, it is one...Continental Express Flight #2574 Embraer 120 Brasilia On its second routine trip of the morning, Continental Express Flight #2574 is nearing the end of its one-hour flight from Laredo to Houston, Texas. Aceste evenimente au contribuit la adoptarea de no FOX pentru toți … It hurtles down the runway at top speed, crosses a highway and slams into a building and adjacent gas...West Caribbean Airways Flight #708 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-82 (MD-82) August 16th, 2005 - Hours behind schedule, West Caribbean Airways Flight #708 finally takes off from Panama City en route to Martinique. The pilots manage to level out the plane but have difficulty controlling the crippled and shaking aircraft. Shortly after taking off from London's Heathrow Airport, Pan Am Flight 103 suddenly explodes in the skies above Lockerbie, Scotland. They narrowly escape and their crippled plane manages to fly back through the storm. They see rain and lightning up ahead, but fly on.
Controllers have given them a last minute change and the pilots are having a hard time locating the entrance to their runway. It seems like a rare case of dual engine failure, but investigators soon learn that a tragic misunderstanding may be the real cause of the crash.Lauda Air Flight 004 / Boeing 767-300 series / May 26th, 1991 Airline owner and Formula One racer Niki Lauda joins forces with investigators to determine why Lauda Air Flight 004 fell into a steep dive and crashed during a flight from Bangkok to Vienna. With 144 people dead including 7 victims on the ground, it is the biggest airline disaster in American history and investigators must determine what happened and who is is at fault.July 11th, 1991 Preparing to take a group of African-Muslim pilgrims home to Sokoto, Nigeria, Nigerian Airways Flight #2120 takes off from Jeddah's sprawling airport in Saudi Arabia in the blistering desert heat. Sharm is a popular resort destination for many Europeans, and the flight is filled with families returning home. Another explosion on the same day at Tokyos Airport is soon linked to this incident. 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. Could the pilots safely land the plane?Revealing how 110 people lost their lives when a fire on board an aging DC-9 caused it to plummet into the Florida Everglades in 1996.Following a fatal crash in treacherous conditions at Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek airport, investigators make a shocking discovery on the runway.Following a fatal crash 35,000 feet above the jungles of Indonesia, investigators make a disturbing discovery.In 2005, TANS Peru Flight 204 crashed into the Amazonian jungle, leaving a trail of bodies and wreckage scattered across the rainforest.In 1956, a mid-air collision sends two planes crashing into the Grand Canyon killing all 128 passengers and crew on board.
As air traffic controllers at JFK manage numerous planes in the face of a coming storm, Avianca Flight 052 with 158 crew and passengers has been circling the sky for over 77 minutes running down to the last few dregs of fuel. But Pan Am Flight 1736 is still on the runway when KLM Flight 4805 careens toward it. The bomb builder is traced and sent to jail but the person who checked the bag onto the plane has never been caught.Compared to the number of suicides in the general population, suicidal pilots are almost statistically non-existent. They demanded the release from prison of Muslim leaders held by the Algerian authorities. But moments later, the plane disappears from radar over one of the remotest jungles on earth.When FedEx Flight 80 bounces off the runway and bursts into flames at Tokyos Narita Airport, the catastrophe recalls an identical crash that happened more than a decade earlier.The celebrity son of JFK disappeared along with his plane in 1999. Korean Air Flight 801 is flying to Guam International Airport from Seoul, when it runs into bad weather.