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ENGINEERING DISASTERS 4: The fire at the Las Vegas MGM Grand Hotel, the collapse of Seattle’s Lacey V. Murrow Floating Bridge, the car that spurred the creation of the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, and the flaw that grounded the first commercial jet are among the engineering disasters that led to improvements in design and safety.

ENGINEERING DISASTERS 5: ENGINEERING DISASTERS examines how an entire lake and the surrounding land are sucked into a Louisiana salt mine, and what happens when a California freeway meets a large earthquake, before going inside the belly of the doomed Exxon Valdez.

ENGINEERING DISASTERS 6: MODERN MARVELS® takes an in-depth look at the Marines’ AV-8 Harrier “Jump Jet,” the Ford Explorer /Firestone rollovers, fire on the Piper Alpha offshore oilrig, the derailment of a high-speed train in Germany, and computer errors that brought the world to the brink of accidental nuclear war.

ENGINEERING DISASTERS 7: In this episode, a forty-year old fire still burns in an abandoned mine beneath the streets of Centralia, Pennsylvania, two hundred sixty million gallons of water surge through a quiet Los Angeles neighborhood, a passenger plane shakes itself apart, and a freighter ship topples a Tampa Bay bridge.

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