An expert climber climbing Mt. Johnson in Alaska suffers a serious accident, forcing his partner and himself to face death again and again in an attempt to survive long enough to be rescued.
The science of survival in natural disaster situations.
When methylisocyanate gas leaks from a tank at the Union Carbide Plant in Bhopal, India, hundreds die of the effects. The investigation implicates poor safety practices, worker fatigue, and company negligence as the cause. Union Carbide insists that the leak was the result of a disgruntled worker's sabotage.
The Sydney-Hobart (Australia) boat race becomes a race for survival.
A flight from Argentina to Santiago, Chile disappears shortly before arrival at its destination. No distress signal was heard, but its last message was a mysterious word, repeated. No wreckage was discovered until many years later, when pieces of the vanished plane began to reappear, but not at the assumed crash site. This is a documentation of the invesigation of the cause of the mysterious crash.
The mysterious disappearance of an Air India 747 over the Atlantic Ocean present difficult problems for investigators because of the depth of the wreckage and difficulty in recovering evidence. The cause is eventually traced to a terrorist bomb, and, as a result, improvements were made in baggage security.
ANCIENT COMPUTER - ANTIKITHIRA HELLAS -)+(- Φώτης
A documentary film about the \\\"Most gagged woman in the USA\\\" (Summary - This documentary film reveals how a foreign spy ring with links to Al-Qaeda has been discovered working within the FBI. Sibel Edmonds began work at the FBI translating wire taps in an investigation into a foreign spy ring operating in the US. She became suspicious of her colleagues after discovering some mistranslations and was then invited to join the spy ring which had evidently infiltrated the FBI itself. She went straight to her bosses and rather than being hailed as a hero she was promptly fired and gagged by elements within the US government after going public on 60 Minutes.)
From the crash of an El Al 747 into an Amsterdam Apartment buiding to the collapse of an Indiana road bridge due to inadequate support during construction, this episode explores 5 engineering disasters and the changes each one brought about.
Aircrash Investigation Series
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