Seconds from Disaster Season 6 Episodes

Episode 1

Norway Massacre: I Was There

On July 22, 2011, lone gunman Anders Behring Breivik emerges from a western Norwegian suburb to commit one of the worst terrorist atrocities in Europe since World War II. The massacre starts with an explosion in Oslo and finishes with the slaughter of dozens of teenagers at a youth camp on the isolated island of Utoya. But was Breivik a lone extremist or was this attack the first warning of a world terror?

Episode 2

Jonestown Cult Suicide

Mon, Nov 5, 2012

Seconds from Disaster (2004) reveals how charismatic church leader from San Francisco Jim Jones was able to lead over 900 US citizens to their deaths, in what became one of the most famous cases of mass suicide in world history.

Episode 3

Fire in the Cockpit

Mon, Nov 12, 2012

Seconds from Disaster reveals how a tiny mechanical fault was able to bring a modern commercial airliner crashing into the sea, killing everyone on-board.

Episode 4

Black Hawk Down

Mon, Nov 19, 2012

Seconds from Disaster reveals how a US mission in Somalia quickly turns from a raid to a search and rescue mission leaving 18 American soldiers dead and another 73 injured.

Episode 5

Into the Death Zone

Mon, Nov 26, 2012

Seconds from Disaster reveals the contributing factors that made the 11th of May, 1996 the most deadly day on Everest.

Episode 6

Terrified Over Tokyo

Mon, Dec 3, 201260 mins

Seconds from Disaster reveals the contributing factors that contributed to the deadliest single-aircraft accident in history.

Episode 7

Runaway Train

Mon, Dec 10, 201260 mins

Seconds from Disaster investigates the sequence of events that led to a seven car Japanese commuter train to derail and ram into a nearby apartment building.

Episode 8

Nagasaki: The Forgotten Bomb

Mon, Dec 17, 2012

The use of the atomic bombs still excites controversy, and in particular the necessity for the second bomb on Nagasaki. The argument that it was the only way to bring a swift end to the war, and save thousands of American lives, wins the day - in public. But did President Truman have another secret agenda?

Episode 9

Sinking the Coventry

Mon, Dec 24, 2012

May 25 1982, The Falklands War. HMS Coventry is on operations with HMS Broadsword. They are tasked with shooting down Argentinian jets. They face a low level attack from 4 fighters which leads to the loss of Coventry. Her main weapon system, the Sea Dart missile can't engage the targets as they are flying too low, and Broadsword's Sea Wolf Close in weapon system powers down at a crucial moment. Both ships are bombed and Coventry sinks in 20 minutes. However most of the crew, although badly injured manage to escape.

Episode 10

Chinook Helicopter Crash

Mon, Dec 31, 2012

June 2nd 1994 and RAF Chinook helicopter was engaged in a routine, although important, task transporting 25 members of the Northern Ireland security and intelligence community from RAF Aldergrove in Northern Ireland to Fort George near Inverness. This journey was brought to a dramatic end when the Chinook crashed into the Mull of Kintyre, the accident was one of the worst losses of life sustained by the RAF in a peacetime accident.

Episode 10

Helicopter Down

Wed, Oct 26, 200546 mins

A helicopter full of oil-rig workers is struck by lightning and goes down in the violent weather of the cold North Sea. How big of a role did the weather play that day?

Episode 11

Head on Collision

Wed, Aug 16, 2006

A passenger train and an enormous freight train collide head-on near Hinton, Alberta (Canada) in 1985.