Deadly Engineering - Season 3
Season 3
Episodes
Catastrophes of the Sky
The disaster of Air France Flight 447 (an Airbus A330) and the crash of NASA's Skylab (the first US space station) in 1979 are catastrophes of aviation with a mysterious legacy; experts investigate these historic tragedies to determine what caused these monumental failures of flight.
Towering Inferno Tragedy
When London's Grenfell Tower caught fire in 2017, its hundreds of residents must escape a deadly inferno; expert engineers investigate and reveal how the building's engineering caused the disaster to escalate tragically. Also investigated is the collapse of a pedestrian bridge in 2018 at Florida International University in Miami.
Power Plant Catastrophes
The nuclear meltdown of Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania (1979) and the deadly hydroelectric turbine tragedy at the Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam in Russia (2009) were power plant disasters of an unprecedented scale; experts examine the aftermath of these fatal catastrophes and explore their lasting consequences.
Japan's Nuclear Meltdown
The largest earthquake (magnitude 9.0) in the history of Japan during 2011 and a resulting 46-foot tsunami led to one of the most catastrophic nuclear disasters in history at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant; expert scientists and engineers investigate and reveal how flawed operational procedures escalated the tragedy. Also reviewed is the 2011 high-speed train collision in Wenzhou, China.
Earthquake Catastrophe
Haiti's 2010 earthquake (magnitude 7.0) was one of the world's most deadly natural disasters that left much of the island nation in ruins; experts investigate and reveal how a lack of construction safety measures resulted in such catastrophic destruction. Also covered is the 2019 collapse of the Hard Rock Hotel being built in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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