Air Crash Investigations

On 6 February 1958, British European Airways Flight 609, carrying members of the famed Manchester United football team, crashed into a house about 300 metres from the end of the runway in Munich, killing 23 abroad. Aviation experts investigated and were shocked at the cause of the crash, questioning whether this catastrophe could have been prevented.

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