Shortly after take off, a loud bang is heard. Miraculously 77 people survive the initial...In September 2006, a newly built business jet takes off from Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil with seven people on board.
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As the nation mourns its worst-ever air disaster, investigators face puzzling evidence: The surviving captain of Air China Flight 129 claims that everything on board was normal, but air traffic controllers testify that the crew's radio communications were anything but.Just minutes after taking off from New York's JFK Airport, TWA Flight 800 is ripped apart by a massive explosion. Meanwhile, a Super Continental passenger train on the single railway speeds toward the same intersection from the opposite direction with permission to continue onto the lower track.
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To throw the hijacker off balance, the pilot hurls the heavy cargo plane into risky but cunning aerobatic maneuvers, traveling at speeds so high they dont even register on the planes gauge! Of the 52 passengers on board, 37 are dead. They decide to abort the maneuver and apply full power to all four engines in order to get their jet to climb. His body is plastered to the side of the plane and the plane is diving quickly.
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All 55 people on board are killed. Shortly after take-off there was a loud thud, followed by a continual thumping noise. The plane is in a steep right bank, and the pilots are unable to restore its flight path.
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