Air Crash Investigations Making a routine one-hour journey from Berlin to Zurich, Crossair Flight 3597 is one of the last planes scheduled to land before the airport shuts down for the night. But just minutes before landing the pilots cannot find the runway and crashes into the treetops. 2026-06-09 Approaching the end of its ten-hour journey from Beijing, a British Airways flight is inexplicably crippled by double engine failure. While the plane narrowly misses the buildings and radio towers in its path, it crashes on the tarmac, ripping off the engines and landing gear. Aviation experts and engineers investigate to uncover exactly what caused this near catastrophe. 2026-06-09 A Scandinavian Airlines flight is mired in snow and slush at Stockholm airport. Despite the winter conditions, the aircraft takes off smoothly. But in less than two minutes, both engines fail. As the pilots try restarting them, the left engine erupts in flames. The plane has lost all power and is falling quickly and silently from the sky, hits the ground and breaks into three pieces. 2026-06-09 January 19, 1995, sixteen oil rig workers' and two pilots' lives hang in the balance when their Super Puma helicopter is struck by lightning in a storm while flying to a North Sea oil platform. When lightning strikes the tail rotor and it fails crashing in the waters below. Everyone on board gets on a life raft, which is overcrowded and leaking in giant swells. Despite the conditions, the workers 2026-06-10 On October 31, 1999, When the First Officer of Egypt Air Flight 990 took control of the plane and switched off the autopilot, the aircraft subsequently fell from the sky. Regaining control, the plane ascended only to again dramatically dive only moments later. The manoeuvres caused the left engine to be torn off and the plane plummeted into the Atlantic Ocean killing all onboard. Was it mechanical 2026-06-10 On August 31 1986, an Aeromexico DC9 preparing to land at Los Angeles International Airport collided with a much smaller plane, a Piper PA-28 Cherokee. Both planes spiralled out of control and crashed onto the residential suburb below. How could this tragic accident have occurred at such a sophisticated airport? 2026-06-10