This section features first-hand passenger accounts from various accidents as well as reports from people who witnessed accidents from the ground. If you have witnessed an accident, or were on board an aircraft with any emergency, and want to tell about it, e-mail us and we'll get a report set up here. Click on the airline flight number to read the eyewitness report.

This DC-8-62F crashed on takeoff from Miami International Airport after improperly secured cargo slid rearward on rotation, causing an uncorrectable pitch-up tendancy. The aircraft stalled in a severe nose-high attitude, crashed into a field, and slid across busy 72nd Avenue, coming to rest against a row of businesses across the road. The store that took a direct hit from the airplane was Micro Macro Mundo, a model railroad supply company. The store's owner, William Bartomeu, his wife, and several customers were trapped inside after the accident. In this AirDisaster.Com exclusive, Mr. Bartomeu describes what happened that day.

This Boeing 727-200 crashed after colliding with a Cessna 172 while attempting to make a visual approach and landing on runway 27 at San Diego's Lindbergh Field. The flight crew of the PSA jet was blamed for failing to maintain visual separation with traffic which they had report in-sight. An anonymous North Park, California resident describes what it was like as the fully loaded 727 crashed into his neighborhood.

This Boeing 737-300 crash-landed while landing at Burbank, California after a series of errors made by the flight crew on approach led to a landing at nearly 60 knots above the prescribed touchdown speed. Passenger Parker Moon describes the accident in this eyewitness account.

This Boeing 727-230 crashed shortly after takeoff from El Dorado International Airport in Bogota, Colombia on April 20, 1998 after the flight crew failed to properly execute the required departure procedure from the airport. Bogota resident Camilo Perdomo gives us his recollection of the accident as he saw it.

This 747-122 suffered an explosive decompression after a cargo door malfunctioned on climbout from Honolulu, Hawaii.  Passenger Mike Rutherford describes the accident in this AirDisaster.Com Exclusive!

This DC-10-10 crash-landed at the Sioux City Gateway Airport in Iowa after an uncontained engine failure. The shrapnel from the explosion tore through all of the aircraft's hydraulic lines rendering the flight controls useless. Captain Al Haynes, who was in command of the flight, recounts the events that happened that day.