What Went Wrong II

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. air base in Ramstein Germany. 70 people died and hundreds were injured.

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.

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.  This episode tracks the missile that shot it down and unravels the mystery of who was behind it.

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.

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?

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. The shock wave from the massive blast destroyed large swaths of the oldest parts of the city and  sank16 ships.