The Long Fall of One-Eleven Heavy
On the 1998 crash of Swissair Fight 111 into the sea off a small Nova Scotia fishing village.
Plane Crash
The Man Who Cleans Up After Plane Crashes
“A body is a body, but personal effects are a life.”
What Happened to Eastern Airlines Flight 980?
An unlikely duo from Boston treks to Bolivia, hoping to solve a 30-year-old aviation mystery.
US Airways Flight 1549: Anatomy of a Miracle
How Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger and his Airbus A320 landed safely in the Hudson.
The Legend of Dope Lake
What happened when a plane full of marijuana crashed in Yosemite Park.
Off Course
“I never knew my father, a decorated World War II pilot who died before I was born. But a trek at age 67 to the site where his airplane crashed brought me closer to him than I’d ever dared hope.”
The Real Story of Germanwings Flight 9525
An attempt to figure out why, and how, a young pilot named Andreas Günter Lubitz deliberately plunged an airliner into the remote French Alps, killing himself and the other 149 people on board.
The Devil at 37,000 Feet
There were so many ways the two planes could have avoided the collision. The odds were so slim. But high above the Amazon in 2006, a combination of technology and human fallibility brought them together.
How Crazy Am I to Think I Actually Know Where that Malaysia Airline Plane Is?
“Okay,” I said. “What do you think is the percentage chance that I’m right?”
“I don’t know,” she said. “Five percent?”
The Plane That Fell From the Sky
The story of TWA Flight 841.
Hear Buzz Bissinger discuss this story, a Pultizer finalist now available online for the first time, on the Longform Podcast.
"Then I Saw Them Everywhere. Children’s Belongings Were Everywhere.”
How the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 rippled around the world, from the battlefield of Ukraine to Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam to the White House.
In 1977, in the Tiny Town of New Hope, a Plane crashed in My Yard
The story of Southern Flight 242.
The Deepest End
What happened to Air France Flight 447?
Dear Nate
The story of Nate Fleming—walk-on point guard at Oklahoma State, fan favorite, golden child—and the 2001 plane crash that took his life.
Adrift but Unbroken
During WWII, a bomber crashes into the Pacific and the crewmen begin an epic battle against dehydration, exposure, and endless attacks by sharks. Adapted from Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken.
Cash for Genes
A DHL tycoon’s small plane disappeared near the Phillipines amidst rumors of children fathered with teenage Asian villagers. Every scrap of his DNA went missing, but that didn’t stop a forensic mathematician.
