What Went Wrong: Countdown To Catastrophe

A deep dive into the engineering of the Morandi Bridge and what might have caused it to collapse, killing 43 people, in August 2018.

The story of the engineering, design and sociopolitical factors that led to the catastrophic 2017 Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people in London.

An in depth review of Germany’s worst ever rail disaster and the engineering oversights that allowed it to happen.

New details shed more light on what went wrong the day an Italian Aerobatics Flight Team crashed into a crowd gathered to watch an air show in Germany.

A scandalous miscarriage of justice in the case of the freight train carrying GPL that derailed and exploded in the coastal Tuscan town of Viareggio. How safe are Europe's railways?

The whole truth about the downing of MH17 over Ukraine: who, how and why. Are passengers safe as they fly unknowingly over conflict zones and what can be done to improve air space safety?

The story of the worst high-speed rail disaster in Spanish history, when on July 24th 2013 a high-speed train derailed on a ruve just outside the railway station of Santiago de Compostela, killing 79. Nearly a decade later, justice for the family members of the victims remains elusive, with the trial still grinding slowly through the Spanish courts.

The story of the deadly Kings Cross fire on the Piccadilly line of the London Underground on November 18th, 1987. A simple cigarette butt or match falling into the space between the wooden escalator and the highly greased mechanism may have started the inferno that killed 31 and severely burned 143 people commuting through the tube station that day.

The Ethopian Airlines Flight 302 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to Nairobi, Kenya which crashed six minutes after takeoff, killing all 157 people aboard. It is Ethiopia’s deadliest accident ever, and was the second MAX 8 accident in less than five months after the October 2018 Lion Air Flight 610 crash in Indonesia. This story investigates the computer error that led to the eventual grounding of the jet.

The sad story of Germanwings flight GWI18G, which crashed into a mountainside in an isolated region north of Nice, France after the pilot committed suicide after taking off from El Prat airport near Barcelona, Spain en route for Dusseldorf, Germany. All aboard the flight - including a group of German teenagers on a school trip and the copilot who was locked out of the cockpit but valiantly tried to save the plane - were killed in the crash. The German pilot had a long history of mental illness, and unfortunately it is is not the first time a pilot committed suicide with their passengers on board. This episode delves into what safety regulations are in place to protect the sanity of those piloting the planes we fly in every day.

The story of Europe's deadliest modern-day maritime disaster. When the MS Estonia sunk in rough weather on Wednesday, 28 September 1994, it took 852 people with it to the bottom of the Baltic Sea, making it the deadliest peacetime sinking of a European ship, after the Titanic, in 1912.

On the 26th September 2022, a 2.03 a.m. the first of two explosions were registered as seismic activity on the Baltic sea floor near the Danish island of Bornholm, followed at 19.03 by a second explosion. The activity was recorded as far away as Norway and Germany, as well as Sweden. At the same time the pressure in the pipelines dropped drastically. Europe’s two major gas lines had ruptured and Siberian gas was bubbling to the sea surface. The images were dramatic – never before had an underwater gas pipeline been bombed. But who was behind it? Ukraine? Russia? Intelligence agencies? This documentary pulls together the latest research for a deep dive into this fascinating spy story.