BBC Documentary on the pivotal part railways play in the lives of the people of Bombay.
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.
dreams part 2
A coal tip turned into slurry by water slides into a small Welsh village, burying a school, and causing the deaths of many of the village childen. The mining company claims that they were not aware of a spring underneath the tip; the village demands accountability.
The collapse of the walkways in a Kansas City Hotel, an LNG explosion in Ohio, the fatal effects of asbestos, the failure of the Yangtze River levees and the resulting floods, and a sinkhole near San Francisco all illustrate the need for better engineering practices.
A flourite tailings dam in the Italian Alps fails, sending a massive flood through the Val di Stava, destroying the towns of Tesoro and Stava, and costing 265 lives. The dam is found to have had defects in design and maintenance, with implications for other tailings dams worldwide.
The baby's journey from creation to birth.
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.
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.
Why planes crash and new aviation methods to reduce the number of future crashes.
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