A Reeve Aleutian Airlines aircraft made an emergency landing in the Pacific Ocean.

The aircraft plunged into the sawgrass and murky waters of the Florida Everglades, a region known for its lurking alligators.

A typhoon gathered strength as it approached Taiwan, and Singapore Airlines Flight 006 began its takeoff run, battling fierce winds and heavy rain. Yet, before it could clear the ground, the Boeing 747 erupted in a massive fireball, fueled …

On a crisp, serene December day in 1997, a Boeing 737 descended abruptly from the heavens, crashing into the Indonesian jungle at an impossible speed. All one hundred and four people on board perished upon impact, their bodies swallowed by …

A mere three miles from its intended landing, TANS Peru Flight 204 was struck by violent weather and crashed into the Peruvian Amazon. The impact left a devastating scar across the jungle – a mile-long trail of scattered luggage, wreckage, …

In 1956, two commercial airliners vanished over the Arizona desert, their wreckage discovered later strewn across the Grand Canyon floor. Air disaster examiner Jack Parshall is tasked with uncovering the truth, facing a daunting challenge i…

The 1979 crash of American Airlines Flight 191 remains the deadliest aviation disaster in American history to that point. The harrowing event, which occurred at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport and resulted in 273 fatalities, deeply s…

Moments before scheduled arrival at Portland International Airport, all four engines of the DC-8 sputtered and died without warning. As the aircraft plummeted, losing altitude at a rate of three thousand feet per minute, the pilots knew a c…

A Russian passenger jet plunged into the Volga River, claiming the lives of nearly everyone aboard. The event quickly became a national tragedy when it was revealed the aircraft carried a significant portion of the nation's celebrated athle…

The air disaster that struck on April 10, 2010, crippled a nation, inflamed tensions between two countries, and fueled conspiracy theories across the globe. A Polish Air Force Tupolev Tu-154M, carrying Poland's president Lech Kaczynski and …

Just five minutes into its flight, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 encountered a catastrophic failure. The pilots lost control, and before they could regain command, the aircraft plunged inexorably toward the Mediterranean Sea. All ninety sou…

Santa Barbara Airlines Flight 518 was en route from Merida, Venezuela, to Caracas, a journey that, like many others, took a tragic turn. Moments after liftoff, the aircraft plunged into a mountaintop, miles astray, claiming the lives of eve…

On June 1, 2009, a contemporary Airbus A330 en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris disappeared over the Atlantic. The families of the 228 presumed victims pleaded for answers, but it would take two years for any to come. This is the story of…