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Season 3 – Seconds from Desaster

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Advanced computer graphics, forensic science, eyewitness accounts, interviews with experts, archival footage and re-enactments piece together in great detail the events that led to some of the biggest disasters of modern time.
Seconds from Desaster — Season 3

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Richard Vaughan

Narrator

Mark James Fernandes

Jack Phillips

Ashton Smith

Narrator

George Plafker

Self

Peter Guinness

Narrator

Gary Desroche

Albert Smith

Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Jan 10, 2006 Skywalk Collapse Walkways suspended above the lobby of a hotel collapse killing 144 people. Details Episode 2 Aired Mar 28, 2006 Schiphol Plane Crash A fully-loaded EI-AL 747 flight from Amsterdam, loses the two engines on the right wing and crashes into an apartment block. Details Episode 3 Aired Apr 18, 2006 Sinking of the Kursk During a military exercise, two explosions sent the Russian Navy's Kursk submarine to the bottom of the Barents Sea and 118 perished. Details Episode 4 Aired May 19, 2006 King's Cross A discarded match in London's King's Cross St. Pancras Station causes the deadliest fire in the underground's history, killing 31 people. Details Episode 5 Aired Jun 27, 2006 Nairobi Bombing Al-Qaida terrorists detonate a truck bomb at the U.S. embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, killing 213 people and injuring 4,000 in 1998. Details Episode 6 Aired Jul 11, 2006 Florida Air Crash An airliner with 110 passengers and crew aboard crashes in the Florida Everglades minutes after taking off from Miami on May 11, 1996. Details Episode 7 Aired Jul 25, 2006 Sinking of the Titanic Forensic analysis and a groundbreaking experiment reveal a structural oversight that may have led to a critical failure in Titanic's hull. Details Episode 8 Aired Aug 15, 2006 Aircraft Carrier Explosion A parked fighter jet accidentally fires a rocket that hits the fuel tank of another aircraft causing a chain reaction of explosions, killing 134 and causing $72 million in damages. Details Episode 9 Aired Sep 6, 2006 New York Air Crash A plane crashes into a residential area of New York City two months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Details Episode 10 Aired Sep 13, 2006 Munich Olympic Massacre At the 1972 Olympics, 11 Israeli athletes are captured by Palestinian terrorists in a hostage situation that turned into a bloodbath. Details Episode 11 Aired Sep 20, 2006 Superstore Collapse More than 500 people are crushed to death when the roof collapses at a five-story department store in Seoul in 1995. Details Episode 12 Aired Sep 27, 2006 Washington Air Crash One minute after takeoff an airliner crashes into a Washington, D.C., bridge and sinks into the icy Potomac River, killing 78 people in 1982. Details Episode 13 Aired Oct 25, 2006 Asian Tsunami In 2004 an earthquake in South Asia caused a tsunami that killed more than 200,000 people from Thailand to Africa. Details Episode 14 Aired Nov 15, 2006 Comet Air Crash In January, 1954, one of the world's first passenger jet aircrafts goes down over the Mediterranean Sea killing, everyone on board. Details Episode 15 Aired Nov 29, 2006 Chicago Flight 191 Flight 191 leaves Chicago on May 25, 1979, and crashes into a trailer park 31 seconds after take-off, claiming the lives of 273 people. Details Episode 16 Aired Dec 6, 2006 Texas Refinery Disaster A massive explosion kills 15 and injures 170 at an oil refinery in Texas City, Texas. Details Episode 17 Aired Jan 2, 2007 Tornado Outbreak Meteorologists struggle to make sense of tornadoes. Details Episode 18 Aired Jan 31, 2007 Space Shuttle Challenger The space shuttle Challenger would have put the first civilian in space Jan. 28, 1986, but it exploded 73 seconds after launching. Details Episode 19 Aired Mar 7, 2007 Eruption on Montserrat In 1995, the Soufriere Hills volcano in Montserrat erupted for the first time in recorded history leaving many villages burned and 19 people dead. Details

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Seconds from Desaster — Season 3

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Season Info

Director
Russell Eatough, Jim Nally, Alex Nikolic-Dunlop, Martin O'Collins, Alexander Dunlop, Nick Metcalfe, Iain Riddick
Executive Producer
Ashley Hoppin, Alison Turner, Ben Bowie
Screenwriter
Alexander Dunlop, Alex Nikolic-Dunlop
Network
National Geographic
Rating
TV-PG
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date
Jan 10, 2006