VIDEO: Shocking Plane Crashes

Since the success of the first plane in 1903, there have been many reported aircraft accidents. Some of them took the lives of hundreds of people and some even changed aviation forever. This video is a collection of the most shocking plane crashes in history.

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There have also been many plane crashes that were never solved and people still can’t understand what happened. Here is some further information on these mysterious flights, provided by Wikipedia.

Pan Am Flight 7 was an around-the-world flight originating in San Francisco and scheduled to arrive in Philadelphia. On the morning of November 8, 1957 the aircraft, a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, departed San Francisco.

Last contact with the aircraft consisted of a routine radio transmission between the pilot in command and a US Coast Guard cutter performing radar surveillance duty at Ocean Station November located at the approximate halfway point between the mainland and Oahu. The flight never arrived to its destination.

Air France Flight 447 was a scheduled passenger flight from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Paris, France, which crashed on 1 June 2009. The Airbus A330, operated by Air France, entered an aerodynamic stall from which it did not recover and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean at 02:14 UTC, killing all 228 passengers, aircrew and cabin crew aboard the aircraft.

Trans World Airlines Flight 800 was a Boeing 747-100 that exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, on July 17, 1996. All 230 people on board were killed in the third-deadliest aviation accident in U.S. territory.

Accident investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) traveled to the scene, arriving the following morning, and there was much initial speculation that a terrorist attack was the cause of the crash. Consequently, the FBI initiated a parallel criminal investigation. Sixteen months later, the FBI announced that no evidence had been found of a criminal act.

USAir Flight 427 was a scheduled flight from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport to Pittsburgh International Airport, with a final destination of West Palm Beach, Florida. On Thursday, September 8, 1994, the Boeing 737 flying this route crashed while approaching runway 28R of Pittsburgh International Airport, located in Findlay Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, which at the time was the largest hub for the airline.

After the longest investigation in the history of the NTSB, it was determined that the probable cause was that the aircraft’s rudder malfunctioned and went hard-over in the opposite direction the pilots commanded it to, causing the plane to enter an aerodynamic stall, from which the pilots were unable to recover. All 132 people on board the aircraft were killed.

Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 was a Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation propliner chartered by the United States military that disappeared on March 16, 1962, over the Western Pacific Ocean. The aircraft was transporting 93 US soldiers and 3 South Vietnamese from Travis Air Force Base, California to Saigon, Vietnam.

After refueling at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, the Super Constellation was en route to Clark Air Base in the Philippines when it disappeared. All 107 aboard were declared missing and presumed dead.