Seconds from Disaster
Accounts of famous technological disasters and their subsequent investigations.
Genre: Documentary
Cast:Richard Vaughn , Ashton Smith , Jonathan Aris , Stephen Bogaert , Peter Guinness , Michael Koltes , Frans Erhart , Stan Ames , Charles H. Batten , Gregory Feith , Shane Nolan , Allin Kempthorne , Brian David , Ed Trimble , Daniel Jefferson , Ankie Spitzer , Robert Benzon , William Scott Johnson
S6.E1 ∙ Norway Massacre: I Was There
On July 22, 2011, lone gunman Anders Behring Breivik emerges from a western Norwegian suburb to commit one of the worst terrorist atrocities in Europe since World War II. 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. But was Breivik a lone extremist or was this attack the first warning of a world terror?
S6.E2 ∙ Jonestown Cult Suicide
Seconds from Disaster (2004) reveals how charismatic church leader from San Francisco Jim Jones was able to lead over 900 US citizens to their deaths, in what became one of the most famous cases of mass suicide in world history.
S6.E3 ∙ Fire in the Cockpit
Seconds from Disaster reveals how a tiny mechanical fault was able to bring a modern commercial airliner crashing into the sea, killing everyone on-board.
S6.E4 ∙ Black Hawk Down
Seconds from Disaster reveals how a US mission in Somalia quickly turns from a raid to a search and rescue mention leaving 18 American soldiers are dead and another 73 are injured.
S6.E5 ∙ Into the Death Zone
Seconds from Disaster reveals the contributing factors to that made the 11th of May, 1996 the most deadly day on Everest.
S6.E6 ∙ Terrified Over Tokyo
Seconds from Disaster reveals the contributing factors that contributed to the deadliest single-aircraft accident in history.
S6.E7 ∙ Runaway Train
Seconds from Disaster investigates the sequence of events that led to a seven car Japanese commuter train to derail and ram into a nearby apartment building.
S6.E8 ∙ Nagasaki: The Forgotten Bomb
The use of the atomic bombs still excites controversy, and in particular the necessity for the second bomb on Nagasaki. The argument that it was the only way to bring a swift end to the war, and save thousands of American lives, wins the day - in public. But did President Truman have another secret agenda?
S6.E9 ∙ Sinking the Coventry
May 25 1982, The Falklands War. HMS Coventry is on operations with HMS Broadsword. They are tasked with shooting down Argentinian jets. They face a low level attack from 4 fighters which leads to the loss of Coventry. Her main weapon system, the Sea Dart missile can't engage the targets as they are flying too low, and Broadsword's Sea Wolf Close in weapon system powers down at a crucial moment. Both ships are bombed and Coventry sinks in 20 minutes. However most of the crew, although badly injured manage to escape.
S6.E10 ∙ Chinook
The retelling of the shooting down of two American UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters in Somalia in 1993, and the crash of a British CH-47 Chinook helicopter in 1994.
S6.E11 ∙ Head on Collision
A passenger train and an enormous freight train collide head-on near Hinton, Alberta (Canada) in 1985.
S6.E12 ∙ Helicopter Down
A helicopter full of oil-rig workers is struck by lightning and goes down in the violent weather of the cold North Sea. How big of a role did the weather play that day?
