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HISTORY VAULT

A mudslide that consumes an entire neighborhood; A rocket bursts into flames moments after liftoff; one of the busiest commuter train lines fly off the tracks twice in just six months; A West Virginia coal mine mysteriously ignites.

Engineering Disasters

Raging Rocket

A jetliner crashes with 228 people on board; An oil refinery explodes in Utah, damaging over 100 homes; Manhole covers explode around the country; A coal filled freight train derails; a routine elevator ride becomes deadly.

Exploding Manhole Covers

Asiana flight 214, packed with passengers, suddenly crash lands; a huge explosion at a chemical plant outside Wichita, Kan.; dangerous sinkholes exist in 20 percent of the United States.

Trapped Under Seattle

A 72 oil-car runaway train crashed, killing 47 people and leveling half a town; a huge sinkhole at the National Corvette Museum; 33 Chilean miners are trapped almost a half mile underground.

Kentucky Sinkhole

Examining some of the most notorious engineering accidents in history.

S1 E6 | Trapped Under Seattle

E8 | Raging Rocket

E7 | Exploding Manhole Covers

E6 | Trapped Under Seattle

E3 | Kentucky Sinkhole