Seconds From Disaster

2004•4 series

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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.

Episode 5Derailment at Eschede

More than 100 people died when a German InterCity Express train travelling at 125 mph crashed into a bridge in 1988. How did the disaster happen? 7+

Episode 10Explosion in the North Sea

The oil rig Piper Alpha became the site of the world's greatest offshore disaster when a gas leak caused catastrophe, killing 167. 7+

Episode 13Pentagon 9/11

A countdown of the moments directly before and after hijackers flew an AA flight into the Pentagon. Fire engulfed the iconic structure and 184 died in the carnage. 7+

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