A Texas International Airlines DC-9-15 sits at the gate at DFW in this photo from October of 1980. The airline was merged into Continental Airlines in 1982.
A small two-engine airplane on Friday crashed in Smyrna, Tennessee killing at least one person although initial reports had said three had been killed.
An hour after a massive 8.9 magnitude earthquake heaved the Pacific floor off the coast of Japan, security cameras captured the moment Sendai Airport was washed out by the ensuing tsunami.