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- Vanished: missing aircraftFlights that took off and were never seen again, and the searches that came up empty.
- Midair collisionsTwo aircraft, one piece of sky: airliners, trainers, formations and tours.
- Wire strikesPower lines are close to invisible from a cockpit. The aircraft that fly lowest meet them most.
- Shot downAirliners and military aircraft brought down by missiles, fighters and anti-aircraft fire.
- Into the cloud: VFR flight into instrument conditionsPilots flying by sight who continued into cloud or darkness. Few of these end well.
- Dark, cloudy and coldOccurrences at night, in instrument conditions, in the winter months of their own hemisphere.
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- Running on emptyFuel exhaustion and fuel starvation: engines that stopped with the tanks dry, or with fuel that couldn't reach them.
- Fire and explosionFires and explosions before any impact: engines, cabins, cargo holds, wiring and fuel.
- Came apart in the airStructural failures in flight: wings, tails and doors that separated from the aircraft.
- Bird strikesFrom a gull through a windscreen to geese in both engines of an airliner.
- Airliner turbulenceWhy the seatbelt sign matters: airliner turbulence, windshear and storm encounters.
- Off the end: airline overruns and undershootsAirliners that ran off the end of the runway, or touched down before reaching it.
- Helicopter wire strikesHelicopters work low, near power lines, and often in the places the lines run.
- Tail rotor troubleRotor failures and loss of tail rotor effectiveness: when a helicopter can no longer stop itself spinning.
- DitchingsDeliberate landings on water, and what came after.
- HijackingsAircraft seized in flight, from the 1960s hijacking wave onward.
- Bombs on boardAircraft destroyed or damaged by explosives and sabotage.
- Airframe icingIce on the wings and tail: a few millimetres can be enough to stall.
- Propeller and rotor strikesPeople struck by a turning propeller or rotor, on the ground or getting in and out.
- Collisions with animalsDeer, cattle, moose and dogs on the runway.
- The same aircraft, againThe registrations that turn up in the most records, each aircraft's occurrences in order.
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- Air India Flight 17112 Jun 2025 · B. J. Medical College, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
- Jeju Air Flight 221629 Dec 2024 · Muan International Airport, Muan County, South Jeolla, South Korea
- China Eastern Airlines Flight 573521 Mar 2022 · Southern hillside forest of Molang Village, Teng County, Wuzhou, Guangxi, China
- Malaysia Airlines Flight 1717 Jul 2014 · Near Hrabove, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine
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