Accidents

The 1972 Andes plane crash: Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 turned north 3 minutes after the pass on an 11-minute leg. What the radio record shows.

The Buddy Holly plane crash was not a snowstorm story. What the 1959 CAB report found: a backwards gauge, missed weather warnings and no horizon.

The JFK Jr. plane crash was not a bad-weather story. What NTSB report NYC99MA178 found about the haze, the dark night and the missing horizon.

The Harrison Ford plane crash in 2015 was an engine failure, not pilot error. What NTSB report WPR15FA121 found, plus every event on his record.

N844AA, a former American Airlines Boeing 727, took off from Luanda, Angola in May 2003 with no clearance, lights or transponder. It was never found.

Flydubai FZ1073 put the threat inside a locked cockpit. How the post-9/11 door, Germanwings and EASA’s 2026 two-person reversal frame the attack.

Payne Stewart plane crash: his Learjet flew nearly four hours after the crew went silent. What the NTSB found, and the ghost-flight myths it rules out.

Kobe Bryant helicopter crash: the NTSB found no mechanical failure and no pressure from Bryant. What happened in the cloud over Calabasas and what changed.

The worst plane crashes in history, ranked by death toll. Tenerife 1977 tops the list at 583 deaths. See all 20, what caused them and what changed.

United Flight 93 was the only hijacked aircraft on 9/11 that never reached its target. Here is how it rewrote the cockpit door rules still in force today.