The aircraft was travelling to Toronto from Dallas when passengers noticed smoke coming from the rear washroom. The horrifying collision kills eight people. Declaring a Mayday-and determined to avoid a disastrous ocean ditching-the captain takes over manual control of the aircraft and manages to power up only one engine by very slowly increasing the throttle. Could the pilots safely land the plane?Revealing how 110 people lost their lives when a fire on board an aging DC-9 caused it to plummet into the Florida Everglades in 1996.Following a fatal crash in treacherous conditions at Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek airport, investigators make a shocking discovery on the runway.Following a fatal crash 35,000 feet above the jungles of Indonesia, investigators make a disturbing discovery.In 2005, TANS Peru Flight 204 crashed into the Amazonian jungle, leaving a trail of bodies and wreckage scattered across the rainforest.In 1956, a mid-air collision sends two planes crashing into the Grand Canyon killing all 128 passengers and crew on board. Bashing in the crew members skulls with a hammer and armed with a spear gun, the crazed attacker seems intent on killing the crew and taking over the plane. Investigators eventually discover the cause is a rare weather phenomena - and a fatal design flaw.By the time the crew of Delta Airlines Flight 191 reached the threshold of Dallas Fort Worth Airport, they'd already diverted around 2 separate storms. The aircraft flies toward weather so severe that the pilots must divert to avoid it. At first, a terrorist group affiliated with the Islamic State claims they shot down the plane as retaliation for Russian military attacks in Syria. Sure, they died young and incomplete, but at least they died with a ripped upper torso.I swear to got I will make a bot that downvotes everything a poster who linked to the New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be castMore posts from the aircrashinvestigation communityFor people who are interested in the Canadian TV series, Air Crash Investigation(Everywhere else)/Mayday(Canada)/Air Disasters(US), similar shows, and aviation incidents/accidents in general.Looks like you're using new Reddit on an old browser. Neither of the black boxes tells the whole story, but it's clear that a mysterious action by the captain to solve a routine fault set off a deadly sequence of events.Transporting military cargo in a converted Boeing 747, National Airlines Flight 102 takes off from Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan. In Manchester, a holiday flight bound for the Mediterranean faces an inferno on the runway. But with a major storm on the horizon, the pilots revise their flight path to avoid the heavy weather. The pilots fight desperately to right their plane - but can't. Before air traffic control even has time to clear a path, the plane crashes on the crest of a mountain, killing nearly everyone on board. The train ploughs through a quaint residential street, demolishing seven homes, and killing both residents and drivers. Incredibly, all 152 people on board survive. Shortly after taking off from London's Heathrow Airport, Pan Am Flight 103 suddenly explodes in the skies above Lockerbie, Scotland. Before the pilots can figure out what has caused the problem, the aircraft...Arrow Air Flight #1285 DC-8 December 12th, 1985 - After a six-month peace-keeping mission in the Middle East, 248 elite American soldiers are on their way home for the holidays. But the jet's navigational systems aren't working. Other. Destined for Fort Campbell, Kentucky, they are travelling on Arrow Air Flight #1285, a charter air carrier contracted by the military to transport troops.
Back at the traffic control room, a lone controller is left to supervise two screens a meter apart. Episode Ep.
But as they descend through the clouds, the aircraft suddenly rips through the treetops below and slams into the side of a mountain.