Seconds From Disaster

December 7th, 1941. An aerial strike force gathers and executes an attack on the American Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor.

In 1998, a US fighter jet severs the wires of a cable car in the Italian Alps, killing 20 people. The crew might face court martial.

October 5th, 1999, a train leaves Paddington Station as another one approaches. They collide in the U.K's worst rail disaster in decades.

We investigate the failures that led to a tragedy of Bashkirian Airlines, which killed all the people onboard, including 45 schoolchildren.

Bhopal, Central India, 1984. City residents wake up to the world's deadliest industrial accident to date, caused by a supposedly safe factory.

Naval historians take a closer look at the Royal Navy's battle with Bismarck and how it changed the course of World War II.

Find out why the HMS Coventry was unable to defend herself when facing a low-level attack from Argentinian jets in the Falklands War.

This episode sees how investigators unravel the truth behind the 1994 Mull of Kintyre RAF Chinook crash, the RAF's worst peacetime accident.