Modern Marvels 11×15 – Engineering Disasters 6
Modern Marvels
An in-depth look at the modern era’s most complex, deadly, and controversial engineering failures. With the aid of 3-D animation, forensic experts, and footage of disasters, we seek to understand what went wrong and how mishap led to remedy. Stories include: the Marines’ AV-8 Harrier “Jump Jet”; the Ford Explorer/Firestone rollovers; fire on the Piper Alpha offshore oil rig; derailment of a high-speed train in Germany; and computer errors that brought the world to the brink of accidental nuclear war.
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- Genre: Documentary, History
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