Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

Under the best circumstances, the odds of dying in a plane crash are 1 in 20 million.

You're more likely to be struck by lightning or dying a car accident than you are to

perish in a malfunctioning airplane.

However, no matter how unlikely the scenario, the fear of falling out of the sky from 30,000

feet up is very real, and it's only amplified by stories like that of Tim Lancaster.

Lancaster was a 42-year-old British airways pilot.

With over 11,000 flight hours under his belt, he was more than capable of handling a simple

flight from Birmingham, England to Spain.

On June 10th of 1990, Tim and his co-pilot, Alistair Atchinson, took a British airways

flight 5390 into the clouds along with 87 precious souls.

Takeoff was perfect.

The plane's sword skyward for 20 minutes as it worked its way up.

It was only when the plane reached 23,000 feet that everyone started to realize that this

was one of those one in 200 million flights.

An explosion in the cockpit startled the passengers and blew the door to the flight deck

clean off its hinges.

They saw everything, the open window, the debris and paperwork being sucked out the front

of the plane, and the pilot had gone missing.

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