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52:00Step by step reconstruction of the circumstances reveals a startling history of near misses that should have made one of the worst rail accidents in British history avoidable.
51:00Seconds from Disaster takes a fresh look at one of history's greatest events and investigates whether the attack was in fact a fatal blow to Japan's quest for victory.
September 2016
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49:00One of the worst losses of life sustained by the RAF in a peacetime accident, the subsequent investigation also ignited controversy. Was there really enough evidence to call it pilot error?
49:00May 25 1982, The Falklands War. HMS Coventry, a Type 42 guided-missile destroyer is on operations with HMS Broadsword. They face a low level attack from four fighters which leads to the loss of Coventry.
August 2016 49:00
49:00The use of the atomic bombs in World War II still excites controversy. Was it the only way to bring a swift end to the war? Or is that a myth, and was there more to the agreements between Stalin and Truman?
49:00We investigate who is to blame for the death and destruction of the Amagasaki train crash and watch how investigators uncover all of the evidence and examine the final moments leading up to the tragedy.
49:00When a Boeing 747 crashes into a remote mountain-side minutes after take off in 1985, investigators are left baffled. This is the deadliest single-aircraft accident in aviation history, with 520 passengers and crew left dead.
49:00Over two days in the spring of 1996, eight climbers died on the descent from Mount Everest. A fierce storm, hubris and ambition and a series of errors contributed to make this the deadliest day in the history of the mountain
July 2016 48:00
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Relive the US Army's botched 1993 mission to capture key lieutenants in warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's clan in Mogadishu, Somalia.
49:00In every corner of the globe, at any time, tragedy can strike. While families and survivors begin the healing process, investigators must start putting the pieces back together to understand the cause behind the disaster.
49:00Revealing how US congressman Leo Ryan exposed the true horror behind Reverend Jim Jones's religious community deep in the Guyanese jungle.
49:00On July 22, 2011, lone gunman Anders Behring Breivik commits a horrific massacre starting with an explosion in Oslo and finishing with the slaughter of dozens of teenagers at a youth camp on the isolated island of Utoya.
49:00In every corner of the globe, at any time, tragedy can strike. While families and survivors begin the healing process, investigators must start putting the pieces back together to understand the cause behind the disaster.
June 2016 49:00
49:00In every corner of the globe, at any time, tragedy can strike. While families and survivors begin the healing process, investigators must start putting the pieces back together to understand the cause behind the disaster.
50:00On September 2nd 1998, Swissair Flight 111 came crashing into the Atlantic Ocean. Relive the final moments on-board Flight 111, to reveal how something as tiny as a faulty wire could have such catastrophic consequences.
49:00In every corner of the globe, at any time, tragedy can strike. While families and survivors begin the healing process, investigators must start putting the pieces back together to understand the cause behind the disaster.
May 2016 49:00
49:00In every corner of the globe, at any time, tragedy can strike. While families and survivors begin the healing process, investigators must start putting the pieces back together to understand the cause behind the disaster.
49:00In every corner of the globe, at any time, tragedy can strike. While families and survivors begin the healing process, investigators must start putting the pieces back together to understand the cause behind the disaster.
50:00Uncover the astonishing chain of events that led to one of the biggest man-made disasters of all time that saw over 3,000 people in the Indian city of Bhopal choke to death in clouds of toxic gas.
51:00Seconds from Disaster investigates the causes and repercussions of the crash and speaks exclusively with a member of the aircrew who, alongside the investigators and victims' families, is still haunted by this tragedy.