What Went Wrong: Countdown to Catastrophe

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 Viareggio derailment was the derailment of a freight train and subsequent fire which occurred on 29 June 2009 in a railway station in Viareggio, Lucca, a city in Central Italy's Tuscany region. Thirty-two people were killed and a further twenty-six were injured.

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 on 24th March 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 and in the aftermath, major changes were made to the tunnel to improve its safety.

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 sank sixteen ships.