What Happened

On 21 December 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was destroyed over Lockerbie in southern Scotland. All 259 passengers and crew were killed, along with eleven people on the ground. The bombing led to one of the largest and most complex murder investigations in British history.

Nearly four decades later, the case continues to generate legal argument,...

239 people boarded Flight MH370.

The aircraft never arrived.

On the night of 8 March 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared during what should have been a routine journey from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Despite the largest search in aviation history, the aircraft has never been fully recovered, making it one of the greatest unsolved...

On 23 June 1985, Air India Flight 182 disappeared from radar over the Atlantic Ocean. Moments earlier, a bomb hidden within checked baggage had destroyed the aircraft, killing all 329 people on board. It remains the deadliest act of aviation terrorism involving a Canadian aircraft and one of the darkest chapters in Canadian history.

Yet for many...

On 27 March 1977, two Boeing 747s collided on a fog-covered runway at Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife.

Five hundred and eighty-three people died.

It remains the deadliest accident in the history of civil aviation.

Yet neither aircraft had been scheduled to land there.

KLM Flight 4805 and Pan Am Flight 1736 were both bound for Gran Canaria when a...

On 1 September 1983, Korean Air Lines Flight 007 disappeared after straying into Soviet airspace.

Within hours, the world stood on the brink of one of the most dangerous diplomatic confrontations of the Cold War.

For decades, the disaster was surrounded by secrecy, political accusation and competing theories.

What really happened?

Drawing on...