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Seconds from Disaster•Season 2•Episode 10

TWA Flight 800

7.8/10 · 59 votesOct 8, 200547 min

Ranked #3 of 19 in Season 2•+0.4 vs season avg

17 July 1996. TWA Flight 800 leaves New York for Paris. Only 12 minutes into the flight, it explodes catastrophically, breaks in half, then plummets into the sea killing all 230 people on board. There was no mayday call from the crew. Rumours spread that

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Season 2 Episodes19

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Columbia's Last Flight (Space Shuttle Columbia)

Alpine Tsunami

Motorway Plane Crash (Freeway Plane Crash)

Mount St Helens Eruption (Mount St. Helens Eruption)

Zeebrugge Ferry Disaster (Capsized in the North Sea)

Kobe Earthquake (Killer Quake)

Crash Landing at Sioux City

The Bali Bombing (Disco Bombing)

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TWA Flight 800

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Skywalk Collapse

Amsterdam Air Crash (Plane Crash in the Suburbs)

Russia's Nuclear Sub Nightmare (Sinking of the Kursk)

King's Cross Fire (London's Subway Inferno)

US Embassy Bombing (American Embassy Bombing)

Florida Swamp Air Crash (Everglades Plane Crash)

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Richard Vaughn

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Ashton Smith

Narrator (US)

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Episode Summary

"TWA Flight 800" is episode 10 of Seconds from Disaster season 2. It scored 7.8/10 from 59 votes, ranking #3 of 19 episodes this season (season average 7.4). It aired on October 8, 2005.

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