Air Crash Investigations A continental flight is approaching airport, but as the pilots lower their landing gear and extend the flaps to slow the plane, the control column suddenly starts to shake. The captain struggles to keep the plane flying but the out-of-control aircraft suddenly plummets towards the ground and crashes into a suburban home. Investigators work to try and determine what caused this aviation disaster. 2026-04-01 Just minutes after taking off an Airbus collides with a flock of birds causing both engines to lose all thrust. The crew desperately tries to restart their engines, but can't. Searching desperately for a place to land, the captain warns passengers and crew to brace for impact and lands the plane in the icy waters of the Hudson River. 2026-04-01 December 7, 1987: En route to San Francisco from LAX, Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight #1771 is cruising high above the Californian countryside. Apart from some mild turbulence, the routine regional flight is uneventful. That is, until the pilots hear gunshots in the cabin. They report the gunfire to the tower and moments later, the aircraft falls into a steep dive and crashes into a remote field 2026-04-02 May 24, 1988: Flying through a violent tropical thunderstorm, TACA Flight #110 begins its final descent towards New Orleans when both engines fail and the plane begins dropping from the sky. The pilots restart both engines but almost immediately they overheat forcing the pilots to shut them down. Without power for the second time and falling fast, they consider ditching the plane in a canal but ai 2026-04-02 United Airlines Flight #232 is 37,000 feet over Iowa when one of its three engines explodes. The pilots shut it down but soon discover they have a much more serious problem on their hands. The plane is in a steep right bank, and the pilots are unable to restore its flight path. The DC-10 has suffered a complete failure of all hydraulic systems, and the pilots have no way to maneuver the plane othe 2026-04-02