Air Crash Investigations

On 9 October 2002, Northwest Airlines Flight 85's 747 was cruising 35,000 feet above the Bering Sea before the lower rudder suddenly deflected to the left. The four pilots were forced to divert their plane and make an emergency landing in Anchorage, Alaska. Investigators work to determine what caused this near catastrophe.

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

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