National Geographic - Seconds from Disaster - Series 4
- Synopsis
- The Seconds from Disaster series Blends advanced CGI, re-enactments, archival footage, forensic science, dramatic eyewitness accounts and expert testimony to allow the viewer to experience first-hand the gripping details of the final moments behind some of the world’s most chilling disasters.
Series 4 takes a fresh look at the 9/11 tragedy in the USA, focusing on the vital and often confusing minutes and seconds in which Air Traffic Control and the U.S. Air Force tried to deal with the hijacks and the aftermatch. Other episodes reconstruct the events leading up to the Paddington rail collision in London, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour and one of the world’s worst industrial accidents in Bhopal, India. It also analyses the circumstances surrounding a tragic cable-car accident which saw 19 tourists fall 300 feet to their deaths at an Italian ski resort in 1998 when a US Air Force plane accidentally cut a cable supporting their gondola, and the 2002 Uberlingen mid-air collision at 35,000 feet between a cargo plane and passenger jet ,that claimed the lives of 71 people.
Disc 1: Pearl Harbour, 9/11, Cable Car Collision
Disc 2: Paddington Train Collision, Collision At 35,000 Feet, Bhopal Nightmare - Series
- Seconds from Disaster - Series 4
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Year of release
- 2012
- Notes
- Broadcast on National Geographic during May 2012
- Subjects
- Psychology; Technology
- Keywords
- air crashes; Bhopal; disasters; terrorism; rail crashes; Pearl Harbour
Distribution Formats
- Type
- DVD
- Format
- Region 2 PAL
- Price
- £17.99
- Duration/Size
- 288 minutes
- Year
- 2012
Production Company
Sponsor
- Name
National Geographic Society
- Notes
- Programmes distributed in the UK by Quadarant Video
Distributor
- Name
FremantleMedia Home Entertainment
- videodvd@fremantlemedia.com
- Web
- http://www.fremantlehomeentertainment.com/ External site opens in new window
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