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- Can a damaged engine bring down a modern multi-engine aircraft? The story of Atlantic Southeast Airlines flight 529.
- The pilot of a British airliner is partially sucked out of the cockpit after his windscreen blows out in flight.
- A bomb exploded on Philippine Airlines flight 434, killing one passenger and disabling several vital systems on board in 1994.
- In January 2000, Alaska Airlines flight 261 crashed off the Californian coastline with no survivors due to, as the title implies, improper maintenance.
- A DHL cargo plane collides with a Russian passenger jet over southern Germany in 2002.
- Three Fedex crew members must fight off a cockpit attack from another employee in mid-flight.
- Swissair flight 111 suffered a fire in-flight and crashed while attempting an emergency landing in Halifax in 1998.
- AeroPeru flight 603 crashed on a routine flight from Lima to Santiago in 1996, due to a severe failure with the flight instruments.
- Air Transat flight 236 ran out of fuel in-flight over the North Atlantic due to a mysterious leak, forcing the crew to glide to the nearest airfield.
- The roof tears off of Aloha Airlines 243, a Boeing 737, at 24,000 feet.
- Enter the cockpit of RIA Flight 593, where pilots battle an uncooperative plane, gravity, and a teen at the wheel.
- Another proof that a series of small mishaps can amount to one deadly crash. Pilot errors, inoperative ground equipment and arrogance pile on one after another and end in a tragic disaster.
- Can a plane fall out of the sky without a single technical problem on-board? Yet another story of communications break-down resulting in a tragic loss of life.
- American Airlines flight 1420 crashed upon landing in Little Rock, AR (USA) in the middle of a severe thunderstorm in 1999.
- Air France Flight 8969 has been hijacked. How can the authorities deal with the hijackers and save all passengers on-board?
- On United Airlines flight 811, the cargo door suddenly opens in-flight and tears a portion of the fuselage. The crew attempts landing back in Honolulu.
- Was it a mechanical failure or a suicidal pilot that doomed Egypt Air Flight 990? Years later, the dispute continues.
- US Navy cruiser spots an airplane approaching them on a radar. Numerous attempts to contact the aircraft go unanswered. Is it a friend or a foe? The Navy commander must make a decision whether or not to shoot down the approaching airplane.
- An Airbus A300 flying for DHL is struck by a ground-to-air missile on the left wing tip, shortly after take-off from Baghdad. With damage that included loss of all hydraulics, the aircraft crew struggles to land safely.
- Japan Airlines flight 123 veers out of control and crashes in the mountains, becoming the worst air disaster involving a single aircraft in 1985.
- An Air France airliner overruns the runway while attempting to land at Toronto in bad weather. The plane ends up in a small ravine and starts burning, but all the passengers are quickly and safely evacuated.
- Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961: the pilot is forced to ditch his plane into the ocean after being hijacked and running out of fuel.
- The crashes of United Airlines flight 585 and USAir flight 427 confound investigators for 10 years until they catch a lucky break, which allows them to solve the long overdue puzzle.
- Korean Air Flight 801 crashed on a go-around after a missed approach in Guam in 1997. Pilot error and in-op ground equipment played the biggest role in this disaster.
- A China Airlines passenger jet goes out of control over the Pacific Ocean on a flight to Los Angeles. The extreme forces cause extensive damage to the aircraft, but the pilots regain control and safely land the 747 at San Francisco.