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Seconds from Disaster is a US/UK-produced documentary television programme that investigates historically relevant man-made and natural disasters of the 20th century. Each episode aims to explain a single incidental by analyzing the causes and circumstances

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Seconds From Disaster Season 3 Episode 1 - Skywalk Collapse
    7.9/10(68 votes)

    #1 - Skywalk Collapse

    S3:E1

    On 17 July 1981, 1,500 people had gathered for a dance in the Hyatt Regency Hotel when, in a catastrophic disaster, the skywalk collapses killing 114 people and injuring countless others in the worst US structural failure.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Seconds From Disaster Season 3 Episode 2 - Amsterdam Air Crash
    7.3/10(39 votes)

    #2 - Amsterdam Air Crash

    S3:E2

    On 4 October 1992, an El Al Israel Airlines Cargo B747-200F takes off from Schipol Airport in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (Holland), when the engines on the right wing of Flight 1862 shear off. 8 minutes later, Flight 8162 glides into a high rise apartment building killing 43 people.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Seconds From Disaster Season 3 Episode 3 - Kursk: Russia's Nuclear Nightmare
    7.8/10(49 votes)

    #3 - Kursk: Russia's Nuclear Nightmare

    S3:E3

    When a training mission goes horribly wrong, the Russian sumbarine Kursk suffers an explosion. 135 seconds later, it sinks. 23 people survive the blast, out of 118 on board. Will they make it out in time? What caused the sinking of the Kursk?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Seconds From Disaster Season 3 Episode 4 - King's Cross Fire (London's Subway Inferno)
    7.5/10(57 votes)

    #4 - King's Cross Fire (London's Subway Inferno)

    S3:E4

    On the night of 18 November 1987, a harmless match produced a small flame on the escalator at King's Cross tube station. Suddenly, the containable flame explodes rapidly into a fireball. It charges up the escalator and kills 31 people in the ticket hall 20m away. The inferno leaves investigators stumped. When the answer is revealed, it will shock everyone, adding a new chapter to the laws of fire dynamics.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Seconds From Disaster Season 3 Episode 5 - Nairobi Bombing
    7.9/10(52 votes)

    #5 - Nairobi Bombing

    S3:E5

    Al Queda struck again on August 7, 1998. In Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, a truck bomb destroys the U.S. Embassy buildings killing 257 and injuring thousands.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Seconds From Disaster Season 3 Episode 6 - Everglades Plane Crash
    7.7/10(47 votes)

    #6 - Everglades Plane Crash

    S3:E6

    On May 1996, what started out as a normal flight from Miami, Florida, to Atlanta, Georgia, when ValuJet Flight 592, a DC-9 with 110 people on board goes down in the Everglades when a fire starts in the cabin and cockpit. The aircraft is swallowed by the swamp and harsh conditions make the rescue operation impossible. Soon there are no survivors. What happened to ValuJet 592 is a one of a kind accident.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Seconds From Disaster Season 3 Episode 7 - Titanic
    7.6/10(42 votes)

    #7 - Titanic

    S3:E7

    It was known as the "unsinkable ship." The RMS Titanic, on its maiden voyage from Southhampton to New York with over 2,000 people on board strikes an iceberg, and within two hours and forty minutes, sinks taking with it 1,500 lives. Now, Seconds from Disaster re-examines the sinking of the Titanic to find out who-or-what was to blame.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Seconds From Disaster Season 3 Episode 8 - Aircraft Carrier Explosion
    7.8/10(56 votes)

    #8 - Aircraft Carrier Explosion

    S3:E8

    The massive aircraft carrier USS Forrestal is sailing to Vietnam on July 29, 1967, when a fighter jet explodes, a massive blast rocks the ship, and in just 17 hours 134 men lose their lives. Was it hostile fire, human error, or a fault in the fighter jets.

    Director:Andrew Stevenson
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Seconds From Disaster Season 3 Episode 9 - Queens Air Crash
    7.6/10(52 votes)

    #9 - Queens Air Crash

    S3:E9

    Its been more than two months after 9/11 and the event is still fresh in everyone's mind. At JFK Airport in Queens, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300, leaves on a three and a half flight to Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. Shortly after take-off it crashes into Rockaway in Queens, New York. This place is home to people affected by 9/11. 257 people die. Was this terrorism again? Or a fault?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Seconds From Disaster Season 3 Episode 10 - Munich Olympic Massacre
    6.8/10(47 votes)

    #10 - Munich Olympic Massacre

    S3:E10

    During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, 11 Israeli athletes are been held hostage by Palestinian terrorists. They demand the list of Palestine prisoners in exchange for the release of the ahtletes. But at Furstenfeldbruck Airfield, a rescue attempt goes wrong and soon 17 people are dead.

    Director:Jim Nally
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Seconds From Disaster Season 3 Episode 11 - Superstore Collapse
    7.1/10(37 votes)

    #11 - Superstore Collapse

    S3:E11

    On 29 June 1995, the five story Sampoong Department Store in Seoul, Korea, collapses killing 502 people. Is there a fault in the building? Or is sabotage to blame? And how did the last survivor survive under the rubble for 16 days?

    Director:Iain Riddick
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Seconds From Disaster Season 3 Episode 12 - Plane Crash in the Potomac
    7.2/10(58 votes)

    #12 - Plane Crash in the Potomac

    S3:E12

    On 13 January 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 leaves Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington DC for Miami with 79 passengers and crew on board. The Boeing 737 is delayed for hours by bad conditions, and only seconds after getting airborne it crashes into the icy Potomac river. Five survivors are pulled out alive but 78-including four motorists-lose their lives.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Seconds From Disaster Season 3 Episode 13 - Asian Tsunami
    6.6/10(36 votes)

    #13 - Asian Tsunami

    S3:E13

    On Boxing Day 2004, the second largest earthquake in recorded history with a magnitude of 9.3 strikes the town Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Soon, it unleashes a tsunami which takes over 275,000 lives all along the coast of the Indian Ocean. How come such a disaster happened?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Seconds From Disaster Season 3 Episode 14 - Comet Air Crash
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - Comet Air Crash

    S3:E14

    The DH Comet is the first jet airliner and the pride of the British Overseas Airways Corporation. But on January 10, 1954, BOAC Flight 781, enroute from Rome to London, explodes catastrophically and crashes, killing 35 people. The investigation begins, but when South African Airways Flight 201 crashes exactly the same way taking another 21 lives, all Comets are grounded and the investigation takes a step forward.

    Director:Martin O'Collins
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Seconds From Disaster Season 3 Episode 15 - Flight Engine Down
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - Flight Engine Down

    S3:E15

    American Airlines Flight 191, a DC-10, leaves Chicago. But when the engine falls off, the plane stalls and crashes killing 273 people. The investigators discover a shocking secret which will turn the aviation world upside down.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Seconds From Disaster Season 3 Episode 16 - Oil Fire in Texas
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Oil Fire in Texas

    S3:E16

    The Texas BP oil refinery is the third largest in America producing more than 437,000 barrels per day. Workmen are starting a routine day, then, and explosion rocks the structure with the death of 15. What went wrong?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Seconds From Disaster Season 3 Episode 17 - Tornado Outbreak
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - Tornado Outbreak

    S3:E17

    On 3 April 1974, the most violent outbreak of tornadoes in history struck. The well-named "Super Outbreak" produces 148 twisters over 13 American states and in Ontario, Canada destroying thousands of homes and over 5,000 people die. How did a single storm form the 1974 "Super Outbreak" tornadoes?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Seconds From Disaster Season 3 Episode 18 - Space Shuttle Challenger
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - Space Shuttle Challenger

    S3:E18

    On a cold winter day in 1986, space shuttle Challenger takes off from Cape Canaveral to start Mission 51-L. 73 seconds later, Challenger's boosters explode and send it into the ocean in pieces. What happened? Was a fault to blame? Or was there ice on the shuttle?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Seconds From Disaster Season 3 Episode 19 - Eruption on Montserrat
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - Eruption on Montserrat

    S3:E19

    On the Caribbean island of Montserrat is the Soufrière Hills volcano. Nearby is Plymouth, the island's capital. In 1995, Soufrière Hills came to life and spewed ash over the island. Everyone is evacuated to the north of Montserrat. Two years on, the eruptions get worse and in 1997, Soufrière Hills erupts violently. Pyroclastic flows rage down the mountain and destroy Plymouth and Bramble Airport, killing 23 people. It generates a small tsunami. People crowd onto ships to escape their home, knowing it's been destroyed.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Skywalk Collapse" is the best rated episode of "Seconds From Disaster" season 3. It scored 7.9/10 based on 68 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/10/2006. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "Amsterdam Air Crash".