Air Crash Investigations

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

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

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.