Episode
Seconds from Disaster: 9/11
Overview
On September 11, 2001 two aircraft are deliberately flown into two buildings of the World Trade Center and one is flown into the Pentagon. Another crashes in a field in rural Pennsylvania.
Details
- Series
- Seconds from Disaster
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 1
- Air date
- 2011-09-05
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
9/11 is Episode 1 in Season 4 of Seconds from Disaster. It aired on 2011-09-05. The runtime is 45 min.
Previous / Next
More episodes from this season
Episode 3: Paddington Train Collision
On October 5, 1999 two trains collide at Ladbroke Grove junction near London's Paddington station after the driver of one fails to stop his train at a red signal.
Episode 4: Collision at 35,000 Feet
On July 1, 2002 a cargo airliner and a passenger airliner collide while they are over Überlingen in Germany. The two aircraft crash, killing all on board.
Episode 5: Cable Car Collision
The Cavalese cable car disaster of 1998 (as distinct from a cable car disaster in the same location in 1976), occurred on 3 February 1998 near the Italian town of Cavalese, a ski resort located in the Dolomites, some 40 km north-east of Trento. The disaster, which led to the death of 20 people, occurred when a U.S. military plane cut a cable supporting a gondola of an aerial tramway.
Episode 6: Bhopal Nightmare
On December 2, 1984 in Bhopal, India, a toxic gas leak at a Union Carbide chemical plant results in the deaths of 3,000 people.