Amtrak's worst accident in its history takes place in Big Bayou Canot, near Mobile, AL., when the Sunset Limited derails from a bridge into the water, killing 44. The accident occurred after a towboat with barges struck the bridge and deformed the rails. The towboat's pilot became lost in the dense fog and left his intended course up the Mobile River.
A German ICE train suffers the failure of a wheel and derails into a bridge at high speed near the town of Eschede, initiating a controversial investigation.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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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.
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