By admin | January 16, 2008
At a festive dance party in the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas city, dancers and spectators watch the competition from 20 meter high skywalks. Half way into the competition, the skywalks collapse killing hundreds and injuring hundreds more. What caused the skywalks to collapse? Faulty engineering or did management allow too many people on them? [...]
By admin | January 15, 2008
BA Flight 9, a 747 bound for Auckland in New Zealand loses power to all 4 engines 15KM above the earth. Pilots have no idea what’s going on and declare emergency. Just before the flight ditches in the Indian ocean, the engine power returns for another dramatic setup to failure. What caused the failures? The [...]
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By admin | January 15, 2008
While running a non routine test on Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant in Ukraine, a chain reaction (no pun in tended) of serious mistakes cause the core to ultimately meltdown, explode and spill radioactive debris into the surrounding area. Watch this documentary to find out how exactly the core reached it’s critical [...]
By admin | January 15, 2008
An earthquake registering at nearly 9.5 on the Richter scale strikes in the Indian ocean causing the largest Tsunami in recorded history. The waves generated were enough to kill hundreds of thousands of people all across southeast Asia from Thailand to Sri Lanka and all the way to the coast of Africa. Watch the SFD [...]
By admin | January 15, 2008
An amazing in depth look at what happened in Bali the night a group of Muslim extremists decided to send a message to revelling westerners. Watch the SFD documentary to go inside the minds of the murderers and find out what really happened that night in Bali.
By admin | January 14, 2008
Faulty maintenance on fuel pumps causes incorrect readings on cockpit equipment and dials. Pilots do not believe readings until it is almost too late. A transatlantic flight nearly ends in disaster but manages to land at a navy base mid-Atlantic with faulty brakes. An amazing look at what exactly happened.
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By admin | January 14, 2008
A British Airways flight gets some dodgy maintenance work done on the cockpit window. A maintenance worker makes an fatal mistake when choosing the screws to replace the worn ones to keep the cockpit window in place. On the way to Malaga, flight 5390 has a cockpit window blowout at 30,000 feet. An amazing story [...]
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By admin | January 14, 2008
Only weeks following the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York, AA Flight 587 plummets straight into a a quiet residential area in Queens —home to many already deeply affected by the terrorist attacks. At first, they thought another terrorist attack had taken place… but this was not the case. The real reason changed the aviation [...]
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By admin | January 14, 2008
Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 is flying with 69 people on board from Russia including 45 school children. The aircraft collides with DHL Flight 611, with the two pilots on board. The collision happens over the Bodensee between Germany and Switzerland and the wreckage ends up in Uberlingen, Germany. 71 people are killed in the disaster. [...]
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