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Seconds From Disaster : Season 4
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Air date: 05 Sep '11 - 6 episodesSeconds from Disaster is a US/UK-produced documentary television programme that investigates historically relevant man-made and natural disasters of the 20th century. Each episode aims to explain a single incidental by analyzing the causes and circumstances that ultimately effected the disaster. The program uses re-enactments, interviews, testimonies, and CGI to analyze the sequence of events second-by-second for the audience. Narrators for the show are Ashton Smith, Richard Vaughan and Peter Guinness.
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List of Episodes (6)
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Seconds From Disaster (2004)
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1. 9/11
05 Sep '11On September 11, 2001 two aircraft are deliberately flown into two buildings of the World Trade Center and one is flown into the Pentagon. Another crashes in a field in rural Pennsylvania.
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Seconds From Disaster (2004)
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2. Pearl Harbor
12 Sep '11On December 7, 1941 Japanese forces attack United States military installations in and around Pearl Harbor, thus bringing the US into World War II.
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Seconds From Disaster (2004)
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3. Paddington Train Collision
19 Sep '11On October 5, 1999 two trains collide at Ladbroke Grove junction near London's Paddington station after the driver of one fails to stop his train at a red signal.
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Seconds From Disaster (2004)
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4. Collision at 35,000 Feet
26 Sep '11On July 1, 2002 a cargo airliner and a passenger airliner collide while they are over Überlingen in Germany. The two aircraft crash, killing all on board.
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Seconds From Disaster (2004)
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5. Cable Car Collision
03 Oct '11The Cavalese cable car disaster of 1998 (as distinct from a cable car disaster in the same location in 1976), occurred on 3 February 1998 near the Italian town of Cavalese, a ski resort located in the Dolomites, some 40 km north-east of Trento. The disaster, which led to the death of 20 people, occurred when a U.S. military plane cut a cable supporting a gondola of an aerial tramway.
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Seconds From Disaster (2004)
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6. Bhopal Nightmare
10 Oct '11On December 2, 1984 in Bhopal, India, a toxic gas leak at a Union Carbide chemical plant results in the deaths of 3,000 people.
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