Mayday: Air Disaster

Flight China Airlines 611 suddenly disappears from radar. A massive rescue mission is launched but all passengers and crew are dead.

Shortly after taking off from Heathrow Airport, Pan Am Flight 103 suddenly explodes in the skies above Lockerbie, Scotland.

On a charter trip from Oslo to Hamburg, Partnair Flight 394 is cruising at 22,000 feet -- when it suddenly begins diving toward the sea.

Saudi Airways Flight 763. One of the most horrifying mid-air collisions in history happened over India in 1996.

An American C-5 Galaxy is flying orphaned Vietnamese babies out of Saigon into safety when things go horribly wrong at 23,000 feet.

Tuninter Flight 1153 is flying to the Tunisian resort island of Djerba. It's high above the Mediterranean when, suddenly, its right engine fails.

When a Adam Air Flight #574 flies into a storm and crashes into the sea, the investigators cannot believe what actually brought down the aircraft.

Depicts the crash of American Eagle Flight 4184 near Roselawn, IN, an ATR-72 that got caught in icing conditions, and the subsequent investigation.