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Engineering Disasters 17
It’s another chapter of complex, deadly and controversial engineering failures, using 3-D animation, forensic engineering experts, and footage of the actual disasters to understand what went wrong, and how disaster has led to improvement. In Sun Valley, California, weeks of record rain turn a crack in the middle of a street into a 200-foot long sinkhole. Months later, rain led to the Laguna Beach, California landslide, which destroyed 11 homes and caused millions in damage. On May 23, 2004, four people were killed when the roof of the new Terminal 2E at Charles de Gaulle International Airport in Paris collapses. Other disasters: the 1931 crash of Fokker F-10 passenger airplane with coach Knute Rockne aboard; the sinking of the coal ship Marine Electric off the coast of Virginia; and the blinding reflection of the new Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.
Aired: Nov 02, 2005 Genre: DocumentaryCreated By: Bruce NashDuration: 44m Rating: 0 Country: United States of America Production: Jupiter Entertainment, Six West Media
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01: Poison02: Car Tech of the Future03: The Arch04: More Nature's Engineers05: World's Biggest Machines 306: Blackbird Stealth07: The Butcher08: George Washington Carver Tech09: Firefighting!: Extreme Conditions10: Desert Tech11: Sub Zero12: The Great Bridge: 8 Miles of Steel13: Howard Hughes Tech14: Edwards Air Force Base15: Taxidermy16: SWAT17: Deadliest Weapons18: The Doomsday Clock19: The Basement20: Paint21: Mega Movers22: Punishment23: Bricks24: Glue25: F/A-22 Raptor26: Civil War Tech27: Machines of D-Day28: John Hancock Center29: The Cape Cod Canal30: Secret Japanese Aircraft of World War II31: Future Tech32: Edison Tech33: Secrets of Soviet Space Disasters34: Mountain Roads35: Route 6636: Cowboy Tech37: Sewers38: Challenger Tank39: World's Biggest Machines 440: Dredging41: Lube Job42: Secret Luftwaffe Aircraft of World War II43: The World's Fastest44: The B-2 Stealth Bomber45: High Risk: Helicopter Lineman46: Wiring America47: Nature Tech: Lightning48: HMS Victory49: Engineering an Empire: Rome50: Coffee51: Sugar52: Cereal: History in a Bowl53: F-117 Nighthawk Stealth54: German Small Arms of World War II55: The Auto Store56: Secret Allied Aircraft of World War II57: Engineering Disasters 1758: Brewing59: The Lumberyard60: Da Vinci Tech61: Custom Cars62: More Hardware63: Weird Weapons: The Allies64: More Snack Food Tech65: Walt Disney World66: Nature Tech: Hurricanes70: Private Collections