Seconds From Disaster - Season 3 - Eps 9: Queens Air Crash
Its been more than two months after 9/11 and the event is still fresh in everyone's mind. At JFK Airport in Queens, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300, leaves on a three and a half flight to Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. Shortly after take-off it crashes into Rockaway in Queens, New York. This place is home to people affected by 9/11. 257 people die. Was this terrorism again? Or a fault?
About Seconds From Disaster
Title: Seconds From Disaster
First Air Date: 2005-09-19
Last Air Date: 2018-02-22
Status: Ended
Rating: 7.2/10 (from 23 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 7
Total Episodes: 69
Network: National Geographic
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: DSP
Synopsis
Seconds from Disaster is a US/UK-produced documentary television programme that investigates historically relevant man-made and natural disasters of the 20th century. Each episode aims to explain a single incidental by analyzing the causes and circumstances that ultimately effected the disaster. The program uses re-enactments, interviews, testimonies, and CGI to analyze the sequence of events second-by-second for the audience. Narrators for the show are Ashton Smith, Richard Vaughan and Peter Guinness.
Cast
Richard Vaughn
Narrator (voice)
