On 21 August 1995, a blade on the left-side propeller of Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529 breaks off. If you continue to browse, you accept the use of cookies on our site. The pilots claim the weather is to blame, but investigators ultimately reveal the cause of the accident was in their heads.En route to Comodora, on the Patagonian coast, SOL Airlines Flight 5428 nosedives into a remote desert, instantly killing everyone on board. The rescue mission discovers that the crew had no warning before the jet was ripped apart. A little over a year later on March 22, 1994 the elite reserve captain of the now routine flight is also a proud father, inviting his son and daughter to visit the cockpit and even allowing the children a few minutes in the captains seat. " But as they dig through the scorched wreckage, they ultimately uncover the powerful ingredients for catastrophe in the overhead bins.Blanketed by confusion and heavy fog, a DC-9 ends up at the wrong end of an active runway in Detroit, and directly in the path of an oncoming 727. The crew is following instructions from the control tower that will line up their Boeing 737 with the runway. It's high above the Mediterranean when suddenly, its right engine fails. Their second engine also stops working -- the plane begins falling towards the sea. But just a few seconds later, the plane banks sharply to the left and slams into a field northeast of London. The pilots are bound for Phoenix, Arizona, but first they have to find their runway. But his saga doesnt end there because the runway he thought was abandoned is anything but.An explosion rips a gaping hole in the cabin of a brand-new DC-10. Investigators must...April, 1996. A member of the cabin crew clings to his legs as the co-pilot completes an emergency landing without any deaths. But half-way through the race, his plane suddenly pitches up, spirals out of control, and crashes onto the tarmac in front of the stands. Mechanical failure? The plane is in a steep right bank, and the pilots are unable to restore its flight path. With a war raging below, the three civilian pilots aboard the DHL Airbus 300 are simply trying to complete a routine delivery of soldiers letters. Armed with an axe and a fire extinguisher, they beat the copilot, and then demand that the pilot chart a course for Australia. The Algerians leadership was unmoved. They examine hundreds of pieces of wreckage until they discover a single piece of the hull that solves the riddle.
With the runway just a few meters from the armed border, the maneuver requires avoiding Cuban airspace. But there's no response from the cockpit and the Airbus A-320 soon disappears from radar. And the bad weather is closing in. Without power for the second time and falling fast, they consider ditching the plane in a canal but aim instead for a narrow grass levee. Meet Akashinga, the all-female anti-poaching unit in Zimbabwe that is revolutionizing the way animals are protected.
In the early hours of 1 September 1983, during the On 10 March 1989, Air Ontario Flight 1363 crashes just after takeoff in snowy weather, killing 24 people. A minute later, however, just as the plane is climbing through 500 feet, it is suddenly rocked by an explosion and, from the beach, a tourist films the aircrafts catastrophic plunge into the ocean. The flight crew witness a bizarre shower of brilliant sparks striking the windshield of the aircraft. They spiral violently to the ground, killing all 349 people on board. Only fragments and questions remain. National Geographic Education brings geography, social studies, and science to life. Air Crash Investigation uncovers the truth behind the most legendary aviation disasters, and every episode features eyewitness accounts, captivating reenactments, state-of-the-art CGI, and interviews with the investigators who ultimately determined what went wrong. Sharm is a popular resort destination for many Europeans, and the flight is filled with families returning home. The crew of Flight #3054 gets a report that the runway is wet and slippery. The hail is so severe that it cracks the cockpit windshield, and visibility is nonexistent. But after a steep and rapid ascent to get out of missile range, the aircraft's cargo door is violently blown off and the plane crashes to the ground. And tragically, their findings come too late to prevent an icy killer from striking again.January 20th, 1992 High over Frances mountainous Alsace region, Air Inter Flight #148 starts its descent towards Strasbourg airport. Spinning wildly in thick clouds, the crew cant tell up from down. How is this collection of clues connected?A Learjet 45 carrying Mexico's interior minister slams into Mexico City's financial district killing all nine people on board, as well as seven people on the ground. The bomb builder is traced and sent to jail but the person who checked the bag onto the plane has never been caught.In 1996, on departure of a Birgenair Flight, the pilot ignores vital information given by a junior crew member before smashing into the ocean. Of the 52 passengers on board, 37 are dead. The crash site is nowhere near the plane's original flight path, and there is no ATC radar to tell investigators where it might be. But once in the air, the pilots get a warning that their plane is not properly pressurizing. The first day of their demanding three-day trip takes them from Zagreb to Tuzla to Dubrovnik. They demanded the release from prison of Muslim leaders held by the Algerian authorities. The accident is captured by a passing dashcam, and though the footage first leads investigators to an obvious conclusion, an overlooked piece of evidence eventually tells them they were dead wrong about the cause.Flight: United Express Flight 5925 and King Air A90 November 19, 1996 A fiery collision between United Express 5925 and a small private plane leaves investigators stumped until they learn that a mysterious missing pilot may have played an unwitting role in the tragedy.When Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashes at San Francisco Airport, investigators discover an issue that could be putting passengers at risk.Flight: El Al Flight 1862 Boeing 747-258F cargo jet October 4th, 1992 En route to Tel Aviv, El Al Flight 1862 takes off from Amsterdams Schiphol Airport with a heavy load of cargo.