Seconds from Disaster

Seconds 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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Status	Ended
Original Name	Seconds from Disaster
First Air Date	September 19, 2005
Last Air Date	February 22, 2018
Seasons	7
Episodes	69
Episode Runtime	NaNmin
Language	English, German, Hungarian, Italian
Original Language	English
Production Countries	United Kingdom, United States of America
Production Companies	DSP
Networks	Seven Network Viceland Fox Life National Geographic

S07E02

Deadly Design

This compilation of Seconds from Disaster combines two airplane tragedies that took hundreds of lives and were caused by the smallest issues. Swiss Air 111 fell from the sky due to microscopic fault in the wiring that sparked a fire in the cockpit. This fire grew uncontrollably and led to the demise of 229 people onboard. JAL123 mysteriously crashed just after take-off into a remote mountainside. Through thorough investigation, it's learned that wear and tear on small repairs caused the untimely death of the 520 people on board.

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