Terror en los Cielos

Imagine being aboard a plane with a faulty landing gear and watching the drama unfold on the in-flight entertainment system. Or seeing one of your plane's engines explode mid-flight. When bad things happen on flights, pilots are on their own and passengers have few options other than hoping for the best... and recording the action. See their videos, captured in a moment of terror, and hear their stories as we investigate near air disasters caused by faulty equipment, and ask how these incidents could happen aboard today's state-of-the-art aircrafts.

It takes over a hundred people to keep one modern airliner flying, and almost everyone involved, from manufacturers to ground control to maintenance engineers to air traffic controllers, perform safety-critical roles. That's a lot of people under a lot of pressure in an industry where one tiny oversight can prove catastrophic. See how a loose bolt, a tripped circuit breaker, a fatigue crack and other small issues have led to big problems for pilots and their passengers, with cockpit recordings and footage captured on passengers' cell phones.