Engineering Disasters will investigate what went wrong in recent catastrophes and explore America’s most terrifying engineering disasters that may be lurking just out of sight.
EPISODE 1
Heartland Explosion
A massive explosion shakes a small Texas town killing 15 people; a bridge in Washington collapses sending cars down into the river; a building demolition in Philadelphia goes terribly wrong.
EPISODE 2
Freight Train Collision
Concertgoers are killed when a stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair; a possible gas leak levels two buildings and kills eight people in New York City; a train crossing is the site of two disastrous auto collisions in one year.
EPISODE 3
Kentucky Sinkhole
A 72 oil-car runaway train crashed, killing 47 people and leveling half a town; a huge sinkhole at the National Corvette Museum; 33 Chilean miners are trapped almost a half mile underground.
EPISODE 4
Colorado Dam Disaster
A storm of the century breaks nine dams in Colorado, flooding whole towns and leaving thousands stranded; A train transporting hazardous materials derails; A natural gas line breaks and reduces a neighborhood to ashes and rubble.
EPISODE 5
California Pipeline Catastrophe
An explosion in a San Bruno, Calif. neighborhood demolishes homes and kills residents; A captain and crew sail their ship into the course of Hurricane Sandy; A building full of garment workers abruptly collapses and traps many of them inside.
EPISODE 6
Trapped Under Seattle
Asiana flight 214, packed with passengers, suddenly crash lands; a huge explosion at a chemical plant outside Wichita, Kan.; dangerous sinkholes exist in 20 percent of the United States.
Phil Derner
Scott Miller
Shawn Witt
Jodi Flynn
Brent Montgomery
Neil Barrett
Marcus Lehmann
Brad Baxter
Douglas Bachman
Jason Blalock
David Blue Garcia
