Mayday: Air Disaster

The windshield of British Airways Flight 111 pops off, and the captain's body is stuck to the side of the plane. The co-pilot successfully lands the plane and the captain survives.

An Air France Airbus was hijacked by four Algerian terrorists just before take off. They demanded the release from prison of Muslim leaders held by the Algerian authorities.

A lone air traffic controller failed to notice that two planes were on a collision course. The planes crashed into each other, killing all 71 people, most of them children.

Wanting to make up for lost time, the pilots of Flight 965 pushed the Boeing 757 to its limit. As the plane descends, it slams into the top of a mountain, disintegrating on contact

After a storm disrupts air traffic on the East Coast, Avianca Airlines Flight 52 ran out of fuel. The plane crashed in a suburb killing 73 people, including the flight crew.