Engineering failures are Icarus-like moments when our overreaching, greed and desire to conquer the impossible can cost not just reputations, but millions of dollars, the environment and lives. Each episode will focus on one disaster, looking at dramatic archive news footage of the disaster occurring and its devastating impact.

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Catastrophes of the Sky
D1
Catastrophes of the SkyThe 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.
Towering Inferno Tragedy
D2
Towering Inferno TragedyWhen 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 tragically escalate.
Power Plant Catastrophes
D3
Power Plant CatastrophesThe nuclear meltdown of Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania (1979) and the deadly hydroelectric turbine tragedy at the Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam in Russia (2009) were power plant disasters of an unprecedented scale; experts examine the aftermath of these fatal catastrophes and explore their lasting consequences.
Japan's Nuclear Meltdown
D4
Japan's Nuclear MeltdownExpert scientists reveal how flawed operational procedures escalated a Japanese tragedy and one of the most catastrophic nuclear disasters in history.
Earthquake Catastrophe
D5
Earthquake CatastropheThe 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.