Air Scare Stories
These are the stories of the most fascinating & mysterious airplane crashes of all time.
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Sunday Sep 11, 2022
Sunday Sep 11, 2022
On March 3rd, 1974 a brand new McDonnell Douglas DC-10 took off from Paris, France and crashed in a forest less than 10 minutes later, killing all on board. The manufacturers knew their plane had a deadly design flaw, but they rushed it to market anyway. They gambled with the lives of 346 people, and lost. This is the story of what happened to Turkish Airlines flight 981
Sunday Sep 11, 2022
Sunday Sep 11, 2022
This is the true story of how two Boeing 747s collided at high speed on a small runway on the island of Tenerife in March of 1977. This crash resulted in the deaths of 583 people, making it the single worst accident in the history of aviation.
Sunday Sep 11, 2022
Sunday Sep 11, 2022
This is the story of how a one-eyed pilot tried to land an airplane full of passengers on a grass levee after it lost both engines in a freak storm. It sounds crazy, but it really happened! TACA Flight 110.