All Episodes of Descent from Disaster
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Season 1
NaN/100 votesLoading...Hyde Train Crash - 1943
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/16/2013
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NaN/100 votesLoading...Kaimai Plane Crash - 1963
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/23/2013
On July 3rd 1963, a National Airways Corporation DC3 slammed into a rocky ravine deep in the Kaimai Ranges. All 23 passengers and crew were killed. Simon Gault looks back at this tragic story.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...Strongman Mine Disaster - 1967
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 7/30/2013
West Coast's Leigh Hart revisits his old hometown of Runanga, where in 1967,it was one of several West Coast towns devastated by the Strongman Mine disaster.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...Shipwreck of the S.S. Wairarapa - 1894
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 8/6/2013
135 people lost their lives when the S.S. Wairarapa steamed straight into rocks on Great Barrier Island. Andrew Fagan uncovers the stories of heroism and downright cowardice on that tragic night.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...Hawkes Bay Earthquake - 1931
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 8/13/2013
The Hawkes Bay Earthquake of 1931 is New Zealand's deadliest earthquake with over 250 people killed and hundreds more injured. Gary McCormick looks back at this tragic event.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...Influenza Pandemic - 1918
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 8/20/2013
In 1918, 8500 New Zealanders lost their lives in a influenza pandemic that swept the world, Judy Bailey investigates the affect it had on New Zealand.
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