Twenty minutes into its flight from Taipei, a China Airlines 747 vanished from radar screens. Immediately, a large-scale search and rescue operation was initiated.

The detonation of a bomb aboard Pan Am Flight 103 resulted in the aircraft's fragmentation in flight. The debris then plummeted to earth, impacting the Scottish town of Lockerbie and claiming the lives of all 259 passengers and crew, as wel…

Partner Flight 394 experienced a catastrophic loss of control, disintegrating in mid-air before crashing into the North Sea. The incident was caused by the detachment of the aircraft's vertical stabilizer, a failure precipitated by excessiv…

In a tragic event that ranks as the world's deadliest mid-air collision and the third deadliest aircraft accident overall, Saudia Flight 763 and Kazakhstan Airlines Flight 1907 collided in the skies near New Delhi, India.

During its first flight, a United States Air Force transport aircraft involved in Operation Babylift experienced a catastrophic failure. When the rear cargo door gave way, an explosive decompression occurred, and the aircraft crashed into a…

A devastating error emerges during the investigation of a plane ditching in the Mediterranean Sea, which resulted in the loss of 14 lives from the 34 passengers aboard.

An American Airlines flight bound for Cali, Colombia, lost its precise navigational position and struck a mountain.

A critical design defect caused American Eagle Flight 41-84 to crash into a cornfield near Chicago, resulting in the loss of all 68 individuals aboard.