What Went Wrong: Countdown To Catastrophe (2019)

Season 4

A two season series with 12 episodes that tell the in-depth story of high-profile catastrophic events while explaining the engineering failures that reveal what went wrong.

Released Sept. 9, 2019 Episode 50 min None+

Genres: Documentary

Watch Providers: Amazon Prime Video, Tubi TV, Curiosity Stream, The Roku Channel, fuboTV + 5 more, Pluto TV, Amazon Prime Video Free with Ads, CuriosityStream Apple TV Channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, DocuramaFilms Amazon Channel

Country: United States
Languages: English

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7.0

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Trakt

/10/

TMDb

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S4E1 - Germanwings flight 9525

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.

July 22, 2024, midnight

S4E2 - Estonia ferry tragedy

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.

Aug. 5, 2024, midnight

S4E3 - Nord stream pipeline sabotage

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.

Aug. 5, 2024, midnight

S4E4 - Moby Prince Ferry inferno

The fire that killed 140 passengers aboard the Moby Prince ferry in 1991 as it was navigating between Livorno and Sardinia was the worst disaster in the Italian merchant navy since World War II and is one of the worst environmental diasters in Italian history. A parliamentary commission is exploring new hypotheses for why the fire happened, in an investigation that could reveal uncomfortably new truths about how the disaster came about.

July 29, 2024, midnight

S4E5 - Marmolada glacier collapse

One of the most serious accidents to happen in the Alps in decades, the Marmolada serac collapse tells the story of the fateful day 11 people were killed when a section of glacier collapsed onto a hiking trail. A cautionary global warming tale about the disappearance of Europe’s glaciers and the changing safety concerns for traversing them.

July 29, 2024, midnight

S4E6 - Greece train disaster

The tragic story of the worst train disaster in Greek history - the February 2023 collision between a passenger train and a freign train traveling between Athens and Thessaloniki. 57 people died.

July 22, 2024, midnight

Episode Runtime: 50 min.

Season Runtime: 50 min.

Released: Sept. 9, 2019

Last Air Date: Aug. 5, 2024, midnight

Status: Returning Series

Certification: NR

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