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.
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Air Crash Investigation: DC10: American Airlines, Turkish Airlines
A design flaw in the DC-10 aircraft dooms a Turkish Airlines flight outside of Paris, with over 300 deaths. A defect in the closing mechanism for the cargo door caused it to open in flight, depressurizing the plane and causing the crash. The defect had been discovered earlier in an American Airlines DC-10, which made an emergency landing in Detroit, but no airworthiness directive was issued, and lack of clear communication led to the fatal Turkish Airlines flight.
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.
explosive evidence...
After flying into a major rain and hailstorm and losing both engines, a DC-9 crashes in New Hope, GA after the pilots attempt a landing on a highway. Investigation focuses on why the DC-9 engines, which were designed to survive water ingestion, would have failed and been impossible to restart.
explosive evidence...
A Birgenair 757 which was been idle at Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, for 3 weeks, is enlisted to replace an aircraft with mechanical trouble. It crashes shortly after takeoff, and few clues are left behind as to what caused the accident. The cockpit voice recorder and an analysis of why airspeed indicators were not working reliably lead to the cause of the accident: pitot tubes blocked by insects.
BBC Documentary on the pivotal part railways play in the lives of the people of Bombay.
Charki Dadri Mid-Air Collision. Saudia Arabian Airlines crashed in air with Air Kazakhasthan at 14,000 feet over the Indian village of Charkhi Dadri in the state of Haryana
Swiss Air Flight 111
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