Deadly Engineering

The disaster of Air France Flight 447 and the crash of NASA's Skylab in 1979 are catastrophes of aviation with a mysterious legacy; experts investigate these historic tragedies to determine what caused these monumental failures of flight.

When London's Grenfell Tower catches fire, its hundreds of residents must escape a deadly inferno; expert engineers investigate and reveal how the building's engineering caused the disaster to escalate tragically.

The nuclear meltdown of Three Mile Island and a deadly tragedy at a hydroelectric dam in Russia were power plant disasters of an unprecedented scale; experts examine the aftermath of these fatal catastrophes and explore their lasting consequences.

The largest earthquake in the history of Japan and a resulting tsunami lead to one of the most catastrophic nuclear disasters in history; expert scientists and engineers investigate and reveal how flawed operational procedures escalated the tragedy.

The 2010 earthquake in Haiti was one of the world's most deadly natural disasters that left much of the island nation in ruins; experts investigate and reveal how a lack of construction safety measures resulted in such catastrophic destruction.