
Seconds from Disaster
Season 4
20116 episodes
Episodes
- E1
9/11
8.02011-09-05 · 45m
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.
- E2
Pearl Harbor
6.82011-09-12 · 45m
On December 7, 1941 Japanese forces attack United States military installations in and around Pearl Harbor, thus bringing the US into World War II.
- E3
Paddington Train Collision
7.32011-09-19 · 45m
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.
- E4
Collision at 35,000 Feet
8.02011-09-26 · 45m
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.
- E5
Cable Car Collision
5.72011-10-03 · 45m
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.
- E6
Bhopal Nightmare
7.22011-10-10 · 45m
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.
