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Inside the split-second failures behind history's most haunting catastrophes.

This series investigates how human error and technical breakdowns turned public events, transport systems, and vital infrastructure into disasters that changed thousands of lives forever. Through eyewitness accounts, records, and later analysis, each story reveals not only what happened, but why it still matters. Sign up to see how these high stakes failures unfolded, and what they exposed.

Episode guide

6 episodes

1The Ramstein Tragedy

The story of one of the worst air show disasters of all time, when a mid-air collision by the Italian air force’s display team sent burning planes into a massive crowd gathered to watch an air show at the U.S. airbase in Ramstein Germany. 70 people died and hundreds were injured.

45 min

2Viareggio Derailment Disaster

The story of the worst rail disaster in Italian history, when on June 29th, 2009 a tanker train derails and then explodes in the seaside Tuscan town of Viareggio, killing 34.

48 min

3Flight MH17

What happened to flight MH17, from Amsterdam to Kualalumpur? On July 17, 2014, was literally blown out of the sky over the Ukrainian town of Hrabove close to the front line in the Donetsk region where Russian-backed rebels clashed with the Ukrainian army.

45 min

4The Blaze in the Mont Blanc Tunnel

A devastating fire in 1999 killed 39 people inside the tunnel that runs under Mont Blanc, between Italy's Valle d'Aosta and France's Chamonix. This is the story of why an engineering marvel turned out to be a deadly fire trap.

45 min

5Duisburg Love Parade Disaster

The July 24th, 2010 disaster at the Duisburg Love Parade electronic dance music festival that left 21 young people crushed to death changed the way crowds are handled forever. But could it have been prevented with better planning and event management?

47 min

6The Explosion Disaster in Beirut

A massive blast and the devastating shock wave that followed left more than 200 dead, 600 wounded and 300,000 without homes on August 4, 2020, after a warehouse of ammonium nitrate exploded in the port of Beirut, Lebanon.

48 min

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