It’s 5am on a routine flight from Gatwick to Kenya and a dream holiday has turned into a nightmare. A British Airways jumbo jet is plummeting towards the ground; there is less than a minute left to save the plane before it crashes.
The story of Qantas Flight 32 from 2010, told by those who were on board. Passengers on the regular flight from London to Sydney find themselves in the middle of a crisis when the engine explodes and chunks of the plane plummet onto the residents below the flight path.
The case of a holiday flight from Cardiff to the Costa Brava which hit a terrifying electrical storm and battled the elements as it attempted to land. But just feet from the ground the runway, lights failed, the airport was plunged into darkness, and the crew of Britannia Airways Flight 266A had to land the aircraft blind
A January evening in 1989, and a routine commuter flight from Heathrow to Belfast is in crisis when flames are seen in one of the plane's engines. The flight diverts to East Midlands Airport and is preparing for an emergency landing when the remaining engine loses all power.
The case of a packed summer holiday flight from Heathrow to Valencia in Spain which descended into chaos. Toxic smoke filled the cabin and cockpit, and its 175 passengers struggled to breathe. Fearing a deadly fire could quickly engulf the aircraft, the pilots had only a few minutes to get the plane safely on ground and avoid a catastrophe
Disaster strikes a flight to Malaga when a front windscreen blows out, sending freezing wind tearing through the passenger cabin and sucking the pilot's head and body out of the plane.
