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In busy downtown New Orleans, a high-rise hotel under construction unexpectedly comes crashing to the ground; as the dust settles, the question on everyone's lips is why?

When Big Things Go Wrong

House of Cards

A DC-10 airplane explodes mid-flight and the quick-thinking pilot crash-lands, saving 184 passengers; the connection between the infamous Concorde crash, a fatal British skyscraper fire, and a North Dakota train derailment.

Hidden Flaws

Italy suffers one of the worst engineering disasters when the Morandi bridge suddenly collapses; examining what failures of a Brazilian dam, a Manilla high rise, and a building in Jerusalem reveal about the collapse.

Doomed From the Start

A Boeing 777 crash-lands into the San Francisco Airport with no warning, leaving everyone baffled; as engineers race to figure out what happened, they turn to other disasters to unveil the complicated relationship between humans and machines.

Man vs. Machine

A state-of-the-art high-speed train catastrophically crashes in Spain; an out of control cruise liner in Venice, a military air crash in Afghanistan, and the Deepwater Horizon tragedy uncovers information about this deadly disaster.

Ripple Effect

Clues from other disasters are used to solve how the I-35 bridge in the heart of Minneapolis collapsed without warning at the peak of rush hour traffic.

Overloaded

Graphics, eyewitness accounts and expert knowledge help unravel the mysteries behind some of the world's worst engineering disasters caught on tape.

S1 E3 | Man vs. Machine

E6 | House of Cards

E5 | Hidden Flaws

E4 | Doomed From the Start

E3 | Man vs. Machine

E2 | Ripple Effect

E1 | Overloaded