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Major strides in technology have seen engineers able to build such massive structures as giant tankers, mammoth skyscrapers and breathtaking bridges. With such enormous size come equally daunting risks, however, and big things can go wrong. This series looks at some of the world's worst real-life engineering disasters and seeks an answer to the question of what caused the calamity
The catastrophic result of some of the world's worst engineering disasters caught on tape, examining their likely causes. This episodes recalls an incident 37,000ft over Iowa, when a DC-10 airplane exploded mid-flight. The quick-thinking pilot crash-landed, saving the lives of 184 passengers. How could the disaster happen and what connection do the answers share with the infamous Concorde crash, a fatal British skyscraper fire, and a North Dakota train derailment?