Just five minutes before its scheduled arrival, the plane went down in the Andes, in the first fatal 757 incident in U.S. history and, at the time, the worst U.S. air disaster since the downing of Pan Am Flight 103 seven years before. Four passengers and a dog survived the crash. This is the Discovery Channel investigation

Investigation on what happened to flight 961. Shortly after entering Kenyan airspace, three men seized the aircraft and demanded to be flown to Australia. Approaching the Comoros Islands, a group of islands off the coast of Africa near Madagascar, the aircraft began to run out of fuel..

Investigation on what happened to flight 961. Shortly after entering Kenyan airspace, three men seized the aircraft and demanded to be flown to Australia. Approaching the Comoros Islands, a group of islands off the coast of Africa near Madagascar, the aircraft began to run out of fuel..