Seconds from Disaster

Season 4

2011 · 6 episodes · 4h 30m in all · 7.2/10

Episodes

1. 1

   1. 9/11

   5 Sept 2011 · 45 min · 8.0/10

   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.

2. 2

   2. Pearl Harbor

   12 Sept 2011 · 45 min · 6.8/10

   On December 7, 1941 Japanese forces attack United States military installations in and around Pearl Harbor, thus bringing the US into World War II.

3. 3

   3. Paddington Train Collision

   19 Sept 2011 · 45 min · 7.3/10

   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.

4. 4

   4. Collision at 35,000 Feet

   26 Sept 2011 · 45 min · 8.0/10

   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.

5. 5

   5. Cable Car Collision

   3 Oct 2011 · 45 min · 5.7/10

   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.

6. 6

   6. Bhopal Nightmare

   10 Oct 2011 · 45 min · 7.2/10

   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.