Mayday: Air Disaster

Aloha Airlines Flight 243 loses part of its roof of the front fuselage before landing safely at Kahului, Maui.

The crew of DHL Flight OO-LL must land the plane using only the engines to control the craft when a left wing explodes causing the plane to lose hydraulic pressure.

JAL Flight 123's steering system stops working 12 minutes after takeoff, causing the plane to crash into the side of a mountain and kill 520 people in 1985.

A FedEx flight out of Memphis descended into chaos when a surprise attack by a disgruntled employee threatened the lives of all on board.

On December 11, 1994, a terrorist bomb explodes on Philippine Airlines Flight 434, yet only one passenger dies.

A high-tech American gunship stationed in the Persian Gulf shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 carrying 290 people when its systems confuse it with an Iranian fighter.

In 1995, a chopper carrying 18 people to a North Sea oil platform crashes; miraculously, everyone onboard survived in a life raft.

EgyptAir Flight 990 suddenly crashed into the sea, killing all 217 people aboard and causing controversy over whether it was intentional or a mechanical malfunction.

A Russian pilot allowed his teenage son to take control of Aeroflot Flight 593, setting in motion a chain of events that caused the deaths of 70 people.

With its conductors sound asleep, a freight train fails to stop and collides with an oncoming train, resulting in tragedy.

A Greek ferry, the Express Samina, is pushed off course by strong waves and crashes into a rock formation causing eighty passengers to lose their lives in the freezing water as they wait for rescue.

A freight train carrying an excess of cargo loses its brakes while descending a mountain causing it to gain speed and derail into a neighborhood killing several people.

When three hijackers ordered an Ethiopian plane to fly to Australia, the pilot tricked them by flying south along the African coast, with deadly consequences.