Seconds from Disaster investigates the causes and repercussions of the crash and speaks exclusively with a member of the aircrew who, alongside the investigators and victims's; families, is still haunted by this tragedy. The nuclear reactor core breaks down and within 56 seconds one of the most catastrophic nuclear accidents in history occursPiper Alpha oil rig churned out 120,000 barrels of oil a day until a lapse in communication during maintenance led to a gas leak and a ferocious fire. 9-10.
Officials have struggled for decades to sift through the theories and conspiracy speculations to figure out what sank the massive ship. Science Among them is an air traffic controller in Boston, Mass. For three years there are no problems, but in October 1963, the landslide suddenly accelerates - and slams into the reservoir as fast as a formula one car - creating a tsunami...Waco, Texas.
Investigations revealed that an inactive gas service line that had once serviced the Chicken Kingdom. HMS Coventry, a Type 42 guided-missile destroyer is on operations with HMS Broadsword. Plus: filtering water, the Archimedes screw, hydro dipping, and more.Myth-busting meets natural history with Tim Warwood and Adam Gendle.This feature is only available for subscribers. They are plunged into complete darkness with 6 storeys of concrete on top of them. Due to poor design they could not cope with waste from a nearby mining operation and collapsed, causing sludge to flow down the valley to the village of Stava at 90kmph.The world's worst aviation accident occured when two jumbo jets collided in fog on the runway at Tenerife. Hydraulics Lasting eight minutes and stretching a record 1,600 kilometres in length, the earthquake's massive strength surpasses measurement on the Richter scale. As officials work to identify a cause, a second...On 25 May, 1979, a McDonell Douglas - DC10 aircraft, packed with holiday and business travellers takes off from Chicago's O'Hare Airport in the U.S. Only 31 seconds after take-off at 3:04 PM, the plane slams into a trailer park community. | Episode 2 | BBC Earth The recovery effort and subsequent investigation that followed remains the largest and most expensive in Canada's history.On 3rd October 1993, US soldiers from the elite units of the U.S. Army's Rangers and Delta Force stormed a building near the in Mogadishu, Somalia, to capture key lieutenants in warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's clan. The eruption takes the population of Montserrat by surprise. | BBC Earth Terrorists detonate a truck bomb at the rear of the US embassy, killing 213 people and injuring 4,000 more. | Episode 3 | Episode 13 On Wednesday, 23 March, 2005 at 1:20 PM, it becomes ground zero for the biggest chemical accident the Houston area has seen in 15 years. As police struggle to handle the crisis, the terrorists anticipate their every move.
Two months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on 12 November, 2001, an Airbus A300-605R takes off on this routine flight. Rescue team crawl through small tunnels in the rubble to pull out bodies...About 8:30 a.m. on November 21, 1996, a commercial building in San Juan, Puerto Rico, explodes due to a natural gas leak. Mumbai Massacre + At 9.20pm on 26 November 2008 gunmen burst into Mumbai's luxury Trident Oberoi hotel, firing indiscriminately. Science Science As it climbs, the two engines on the right wing fall to the earth and the jumbo jet ploughs into a crowded apartment block.On May 11, 1996, ValuJet Flight 592 en route to Atlanta takes off, with no one aware there's a fire in the cargo hold. A full-scale...In 1981, at the Hyatt hotel in Kansas City, suspended walkways come away from their fixings, plummeting onto revellers below and leaving 114 dead and 186 injured. Copyright - All Rights Reserved. Just 24 seconds after take-off at 4:01 PM on 13 January, 1982, the plane collides with the Washington, DC's 14th Street Bridge, a major commuter bridge for the city, before crashing into the icy river below. The massacre starts with an explosion in Oslo and finishes with the slaughter of dozens of teenagers at a youth camp on the isolated island of Utoya.May 25 1982, The Falklands War.