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Season 4 – 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 4

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Episode 1 Aired Sep 5, 2011 11-sep A look at the 9/11 tragedy in the USA, focusing on the vital and often confusing minutes and seconds in which Air Traffic Control and the US Air Force tried to deal with the hijacks and the aftermath. Details Episode 2 Aired Sep 12, 2011 Pearl Harbor A dramatic look at the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Striking on a Sunday, anti-aircraft guns were unmanned, torpedo nets absent and ammunition locked away. Details Episode 3 Aired Sep 19, 2011 Paddington Rail Disaster Survivors recount the events of 5th October 1999, when a London-bound express collided with a rush-hour commuter train, killing 32 people. Details Episode 4 Aired Sep 26, 2011 Munich Air Disaster When two planes collided above Germany in 2002, 71 people died. Having lost his family, Vitaliy Kaloyev murdered the air traffic controller. Details Episode 5 Aired Oct 3, 2011 Alpine Collision A fraught look at how 19 tourists fell to their deaths at an Italian ski resort in 1998 when a military plane accidentally cut a cable supporting their gondola. Details Episode 6 Aired Oct 10, 2011 Bhopal Nightmare In 1984, an Indian city became the site of history's biggest man-made disaster, when, in a few hours, 3,000 people choked to death on toxic gas. Details
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Season Info

Director
Sean Smith
Executive Producer
Tom Brisley, Stephen Hunter
Network
National Geographic
Rating
TV-G
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date
Sep 5, 2011