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This compilation of previous Seconds from Disaster episodes combines two airliner crashes that took hundreds of lives. In 1998, Swissair Flight 111 fell from the sky due to a wiring fault that sparked a fire in the entire cockpit. This fire grew uncontrollably and led to the demise of all 229 people on board.
Seconds from Disaster is a US/UK-produced documentary television programme that investigates historically relevant man-made and natural disasters from the 20th and early 21st centuries. Each episode aims to explain a single incident by analyzing the causes and circumstances that ultimately affected the disaster.
TV documentaries were also made concerning the disaster, all distributed worldwide and focusing on either safety aspects or the circumstances that turned what should have been a serious, but controllable incident into a disaster. The first, Seconds from Disaster – Tunnel Inferno (aired 2004), was a reconstruction of the events leading up to ...
Disaster Description 1 1 "The Inferno at Kaprun" November 11, 2000: Kaprun disaster: 155 skiers die in a fire at Kaprun Ski Resort. The deadly chain of events was caused by a heater in the rear attendant's cabin that also affected the alpine station 2 kilometres above the tunnel. 2 2 "The Crash at Eschede" June 3, 1998: Eschede train disaster
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Destroyed in Seconds is an American television series that premiered on Discovery Channel on August 21, 2008. [2]Hosted by Ron Pitts, it features video segments of various things being destroyed fairly quickly (hence, "in seconds") such as planes crashing, explosions, sinkholes, boats crashing, fires, race car incidents, floods, factories, etc.
The PBS series Nova featured the crash in season 2, episode 2, of the TV show Why Planes Crash, in an episode called "Brush With Death". [29] The National Geographic Channel series Seconds From Disaster also dramatized the accident entitled "Plane Crash in the Potomac". Aircrash Confidential also covered the accident in one of their episodes.
Dying while trying to rescue survivors of the 1999 Mont Blanc tunnel fire Pierlucio Tinazzi ( Italian pronunciation: [ˌpjɛrˈluːtʃo tiˈnattsi] ; 27 December 1962 Morgex – 24 March 1999 Courmayeur ) was an Italian security guard who died while trying to rescue victims of the 1999 Mont Blanc tunnel fire .