Air Crash Investigations On 23 November, 1996, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 was hijacked by three Ethiopians seeking political asylum. The pilot attempted to trick the hijackers by secretly changing the flight route demanded. But after a struggle and despite the pilots heroic efforts, the plane crashes in the Indian Ocean near Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125 of the 175 passengers and crew on board. 2026-08-04 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 2026-08-04 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 2026-08-04 On 16 August 2005, West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 flew through a thunderstorm. Shortly after, the pilots reported that both engines had failed and a few minutes later the plane crashed into a cattle farm in Venezuela, killing all 152 passengers and eight crew on board. Aviation engineers and experts investigated and made the shocking discovery that there were no faults with the engines and pilo 2026-08-05 On 12 December 1985, a charter flight carrying the 101st Airborne Division on Arrow Air Flight 1285, stalled and crashed just seconds after taking off from Gander International Airport in Canada while en route to Fort Campbell, Kentucky. All 256 people aboard the aircraft died. Terrorists initially claimed responsibility for the crash, but the Canadian Aviation Safety Board found that this wasn't 2026-08-05 On April 7, 1994 the crew of the Federal Express DC-10 freighter faced a horrifying and violent mid-air attack from an off duty Fed-Ex employee who had planned to kill them and crash the plane. In their struggle to control both the plane and the attacker, the pilots perform incredible feats, in order to save their lives. 2026-08-05