A Fairchild FH227 carrying five crew and forty passengers many of them rugby players from Stella Maris Colleges Old Christians team hits the side of a mountain in the Andes When food runs short they turn to the unthinkable

The Camilla a Finnish rollonrolloff cargo ship in Canadian waters suffers a main engine failure With a storm approaching the captain declares an emergency to the Canadian Coast Guardnbsp Will they rescue the crew in time

A JR207 type train bound for Osaka on a commuter service derails on a curve at a speed greater than the limit for that section of track The two front carriages crash into an adjacent apartment block 107 people are killed and 555 are injured

Seven men are trapped underground in a cave with a river running through itnbsp Only the experts know how to retrieve them

An earthquake of magnitude 76 on the Richter scale rocks Pakistan Two tenstory blocks completely collapse A rescue team from the United Kingdom attempts to rescue the victims

Hurricane Katrina was one of the worst natural disasters that American citizens had to face but add the immense flooding to a myriad of medical ailments and electrical equipment and you have a recipe for true emergency