Mayday: Air Disaster

F-16 fighter jets scramble to intercept a rogue Learjet carrying golf legend Payne Stewart, and when the aircraft crashes in a South Dakota hayfield, it's up to investigators to figure out what went wrong.

On September 11th, 2001, hijackers storm the cockpit of American Airlines Flight 77 and fly the plane into the Pentagon.

Two 747s collide on the tarmac in Tenerife in what remains the single deadliest aviation accident of all time.

A Boeing 737 is engulfed in flames on the tarmac, and the disaster leaves an international team of investigators with a troubling question.

A commuter flight over France makes a sightseeing detour that sets off a deadly chain of events.

When a Colorado commuter flight ends in disaster, the shocking cause will rock the entire airline industry.

When Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps, investigators are faced with a sinister explanation that's almost beyond belief.

After losing both engines and all electrical power in a violent storm, the pilots of Garuda Indonesia Flight 421 manage one of the most remarkable emergency landings of all time.

The captain of AirAsia Flight 8501 overrides the computer's instructions, and his impromptu fix leads to a deadly stall over the Java Sea.

A 747 cargo plane crashes seconds after taking off from a U.S. airfield in Afghanistan, and an overlooked piece of evidence eventually tells investigators they were dead wrong about the cause.