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Seconds from Disaster

Season 2 · Episode 3

Motorway Plane Crash (Freeway Plane Crash)

9.747mJuly 12, 2005

January 1989. British Midland Airways Flight 092, a Boeing 737, is landing at Kegworth, United Kingdom, when it crashes on the M1 motorway, killing 47 people. What went wrong? The B-737 is the most widely-used airliner in the world. Could mechanical failure be to blame? Perhaps human error? Or even sabotage?

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Episodes

Episode 1Columbia's Last Flight (Space Shuttle Columbia)
Episode 2Alpine Tsunami
Episode 3Motorway Plane Crash (Freeway Plane Crash)
Episode 4Mount St Helens Eruption (Mount St. Helens Eruption)
Episode 5Zeebrugge Ferry Disaster (Capsized in the North Sea)
Episode 6Kobe Earthquake (Killer Quake)
Episode 7Crash Landing at Sioux City
Episode 8The Bali Bombing (Disco Bombing)