Seconds from Disaster
200545m / epDocumentary
First aired
September 19, 2005
TMDB Score
72% match · 30 votes
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Two Jumbo Jets, Pan Am 1736 and KLM 4805 collide on the lone runway at Tenerife, Spain. The two aircraft are then burnt out and 583 people lose their lives. But how come two experienced pilots made a mistake of this magnitude? How come two passenger jets collided on the runway?
About the Series

Synopsis
Seconds from Disaster is a US/UK-produced documentary television programme that investigates historically relevant man-made and natural disasters of the 20th century. Each episode aims to explain a single incidental by analyzing the causes and circumstances that ultimately effected the disaster. The program uses re-enactments, interviews, testimonies, and CGI to analyze the sequence of events second-by-second for the audience. Narrators for the show are Ashton Smith, Richard Vaughan and Peter Guinness.
- First aired
- September 19, 2005
- Last aired
- February 22, 2018
- Seasons
- 7 seasons · 75 episodes
- Status
- Ended
- Original language
- English
- Network
- National Geographic
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