The most expensive aviation accident of all time occurs on 23 February 2008, when a B2 Stealth bomber crashes on takeoff from Guam Airforce Base. The Air Force investigates the 2 billion dollar crash for the cause.
On March 31, 1992, over France, a Transair Boeing 707, Flight 671, experienced a two engine separation on the right wing. Despite the damage, the five crew managed a safe landing, but the aircraft was a write off.
Flight 261 was a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 that crashed into the Pacific Ocean on January 31, 2000. Investigators discover a sad trail of poor maintenance, shortcuts and lack of attention to detail.
A Boeing 727 begins an uncommanded roll to the right, along with loss of hydraulic fluid, which almost resulted in the loss of the aircraft. Investigators recreate all the steps of the flight, to solve the mystery.
Facing a severe thunderstorm and a control tower shutdown, American Airlines 1572 suffers double-engine failure on final approach into Windsor Locks Airport in Connecticut.
In 2020 a helicopter crash near Calabasas, on route to Camarillo, in Los Angeles, killed basketball legend Kobe Bryant, and family members and others. It shocked the Nation and the NTSB investigate.
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