4. Adam Air Flight 574

Similarly to the crew’s lack of situational awareness aboard flight United 173, the crew of Adam Air Flight 574 became distracted with a malfunction of their inertial reference system and failed to realize that the plane had begun to descend and angle off centre. By the time the captain realized what was happening, it was too late in the plane’s descent to regain control and Flight 574 crashed into Indonesian waters and disintegrated, killing all 102 people on board.

3. Helios Airways Flight 522

The crash of Helios Airways Flight 522 was sadly caused by one very small pilot error that goes to show just how many crucial details are involved in flying an aircraft. During their pre-flight preparations, the flight crew didn’t switch the cabin pressurization to “auto” and lost consciousness due to a lack of oxygen while flying in the cabin. The plane continued to fly on auto-pilot until it ran out of fuel, crashing into a mountainside in Greece and killing all onboard.

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