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Season 1 – Disasters Engineered

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Exploring the stories behind mankind's greatest engineering disasters through archives and expert interviews.
Disasters Engineered — Season 1

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Charley Speed

Narrator

Daniel Sharp

Director

Sam Cryer

Director

Sam Cryer

Producer

Daniel Sharp

Producer

Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Jan 15, 2020 Manned Missions Trace the chain of events that led to a deadly explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig and unleashed the largest marine oil spill in history; see the failed part that caused the NASA Challenger Space Shuttle to explode seconds after liftoff. Details Episode 2 Airs undefined Chemical Blasts Experts examine how the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and the Bhopal gas tragedy happened; they also explore the consequences and how they could have been avoided. Details Episode 3 Airs undefined Episode 3 Reassess the Titanic's design to determine whether structural weaknesses doomed the ship before it carried passengers; examine the flammable materials surrounding the Hindenburg's fuel that led to its destruction. Details Episode 4 Aired Feb 5, 2020 Industrial Slides A 1966 landslide in Wales killed 116 children and 28 adults, and a 2019 dam collapse killed 115 people in Brazil. Details Episode 5 Aired Feb 12, 2020 Ocean Catastrophes Experts examine what caused the Zeebrugge ferry tragedy and the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster; what were the consequences, and how could they have been avoided? Details Episode 6 Aired Feb 19, 2020 Episode 6 Experts study what caused Kegworth air disaster in 1989 and the tragic Concorde crash in 2000; examine what were the consequences and how they could have been avoided. Details Episode 7 Aired Feb 26, 2020 Design Failures Experts examine how engineering failures allowed Hurricane Katrina to devastate New Orleans and cause the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Details Episode 8 Aired Mar 4, 2020 Experts examine the devastating collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh and of the Morandi bridge in Genoa, Italy; investigating how the disasters could have been avoided. Details Episode 9 Aired Mar 11, 2020 Episode 9 Experts examine the fatal explosion at a chemical factory in Tianjin, China and at the Evangelos Florakis naval base in Cyprus; investigates how the disasters could have been avoided. Details Episode 10 Aired Mar 18, 2020 Episode 10 Experts examine the fatal Clapham Junction rail crash in 1988 and the high-speed train crash in Turkey in 2018 as they investigate how the disasters could have been avoided. Details
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Disasters Engineered — Season 1

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Season Info

Director
Daniel Sharp, Sam Cryer
Network
Discovery Channel
Genre
Special Interest, Documentary
Original Language
British English
Release Date
Jan 15, 2020