Seconds from Disaster — Season 4
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01 9/11
Sep 5, 201145m★ 8.3
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.
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02 Pearl Harbor
Sep 12, 201145m★ 6.8
On December 7, 1941 Japanese forces attack United States military installations in and around Pearl Harbor, thus bringing the US into World War II.
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03 Paddington Train Collision
Sep 19, 201145m★ 7.3
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.
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04 Collision at 35,000 Feet
Sep 26, 201145m★ 8.0
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.
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05 Cable Car Collision
Oct 3, 201145m★ 5.7
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.
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06 Bhopal Nightmare
Oct 10, 201145m★ 7.3
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.