Seconds from Disaster
This documentary series revisits major man-made and natural disasters from the 20th century, breaking down what happened moment by moment. Using re-enactments, interviews, testimonies, and CGI, each episode traces the chain of decisions and conditions that led to catastrophe and explains the key causes in clear detail.
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Season 4
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E1
9/11
On September 11, 2001 two aircraft are deliberately flown into two buildings of the World Trade Center and one is flown into the Pentagon. Another crashes in a field in rural Pennsylvania.
Sep 5, 2011 -
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E2
Pearl Harbor
On December 7, 1941 Japanese forces attack United States military installations in and around Pearl Harbor, thus bringing the US into World War II.
Sep 12, 2011 -
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E3
Paddington Train Collision
On October 5, 1999 two trains collide at Ladbroke Grove junction near London's Paddington station after the driver of one fails to stop his train at a red signal.
Sep 19, 2011 -
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E4
Collision at 35,000 Feet
On July 1, 2002 a cargo airliner and a passenger airliner collide while they are over Überlingen in Germany. The two aircraft crash, killing all on board.
Sep 26, 2011 -
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E5
Cable Car Collision
The Cavalese cable car disaster of 1998 (as distinct from a cable car disaster in the same location in 1976), occurred on 3 February 1998 near the Italian town of Cavalese, a ski resort located in the Dolomites, some 40 km north-east of Trento. The disaster, which led to the death of 20 people, occurred when a U.S. military plane cut a cable supporting a gondola of an aerial tramway.
Oct 3, 2011 -
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E6
Bhopal Nightmare
On December 2, 1984 in Bhopal, India, a toxic gas leak at a Union Carbide chemical plant results in the deaths of 3,000 people.
Oct 10, 2011
