Air Crash Investigations

In April 1998, a short island hop from Maui to Honolulu quickly turns into a nightmare for Aloha Airlines Flight 243. Just after take off, a loud bang is heard and a huge chunk of the plane's roof and walls go missing. They are flying in a convertible! Against all the odds, the plane gets down safely. But what caused it? A startling theory links it to the mysterious disappearance of one of the fli

November 22, 2003 - It was supposed to be a routine "mail run", but shortly after takeoff, the three man crew of the DHL A300 is thrown into the fight of their lives. For sixteen minutes they struggle without hydraulics to put the plane back down on the runway of Saddam Hussein International Airport in Baghdad. As witnessed on camera from a passing military helicopter, the flight crew's performanc

On August 12 1985, just minutes after take off from Tokyo en route to Osaka, the tail fin suddenly blows off Japan Airlines Flight 123. The plane is now out of control. The experienced pilots manage to keep the plane in the air for thirty excruciating minutes before slamming into a remote mountain. All but four of the 509 passengers on board are killed. It's the worst single-plane air disaster in