Air Disasters

Passengers and crew escape a jet that skid off the runway before catching fire.

A British Airways flight to Australia in 1982 crashes into the Indian Ocean.

A plane crash lands in Guam after losing sight of the airport in a storm.

In 1991, a Boeing 737 operating as United Airlines Flight 585 suddenly rolls into a dive and crashes within eight seconds, killing all 25 people on board.

A miraculous rescue is launched after a 747 plummets toward the Pacific.

In one of the world's busiest airports, a large passenger plane crashes into a smaller one; a 1986 midair crash between planes near Los Angeles brings attention to disturbing congestion at airports.

A U.S. military plane veers off course and flies into a mountain while attempting to land at Dubrovnik Airport in Croatia in heavy fog, killing all 35 people on board.

An examination of the crash over the Red Sea in January 2004.

Investigators try to solve the mystery of a plane whose captain and co-pilot are missing.