Air Disasters

In 1978, passengers and seven people on the ground die when a PSA flight crashed into a Cessna.

Manchester United football team's plane crashes while returning from Yugoslavia, killing 23 aboard.

Moments before a Pacific Southwest flight crashes in California, gunshots are heard in the cabin.

United Airlines Flight 232 crashes into Sioux City's runway in 1989.

A Northwest Airlines flight above the Bering Sea must make an emergency landing in Anchorage.

In September 1991, Continental Express Flight 2574 suffers wing damage and goes into a dive falling out of the sky.

A burst tire creates an in-flight fire on flight 2120 which causes passengers and crew to perish.

Moments after take-off, SAS Flight 686 collides with a Cessna on the runway.

A Korean Air Cargo flight crashes in a field moments after takeoff from England's Stansted Airport.

In December 1985, Arrow Air Flight 1285, an international charter flight returning the U.S. 101st Airborne Division, the "Screaming Eagles", from a peacekeeping mission in the Middle East to the U.S., crashed after refueling in Gander, Newfoundland, killing all 248 passengers and 8 crew members on board. The cause of the crash is still hotly debated to this day.

An emergency landing during a violent storm kills the engines of a 737.