Mentour Pilot: Aviation Accidents explained

During a night landing at Austin, Texas, Southwest Airlines Flight 1392 — a Boeing 737 — strikes and kills a man who had climbed the airport perimeter...

A FedEx McDonnell Douglas MD-11 freighter overruns the runway while landing at Mumbai in poor weather ahead of an approaching cyclone. Petter Hörnfeld...

Atlas Air Flight 3591, a Boeing 767 freighter, suddenly dives into Trinity Bay near Houston during approach, killing all three on board. Petter Hörnfe...

After an engine fails shortly after departing the Greek island of Samos, the crew of a Smartwings Boeing 737 elects to keep flying on a single engine...

Minutes after departing Singapore, an uncontained engine failure tears through the wing of Qantas Flight 32, an Airbus A380, knocking out systems acro...

Ice shed from the wings destroys both engines of SAS Flight 751 moments after take-off from Stockholm. Petter Hörnfeldt describes how the crew, helped...

A fuel leak leaves Air Transat Flight 236, an Airbus A330, without engine power high over the Atlantic Ocean and no runway within reach. Petter Hörnfe...

When an engine disintegration severs every hydraulic system on United Airlines Flight 232, the crew of the DC-10 is left with almost no conventional f...

A large section of the upper fuselage tears away from Aloha Airlines Flight 243 in mid-flight, exposing rows of passengers to the open sky. Petter Hör...

A pressurization switch left in the wrong position slowly incapacitates everyone aboard Helios Airways Flight 522, which flies on autopilot until its...

A fuel miscalculation rooted in a unit-conversion error leaves Air Canada Flight 143, a Boeing 767, without engines at cruising altitude. Petter Hörnf...

Days before Christmas 1954, a Trans-Canada Air Lines Lockheed Super Constellation goes down under harrowing circumstances — yet the outcome becomes kn...