Air Crash Investigations

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

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?