• SECONDS FROM DISASTER

EXCLUSIVE VIDEOS

  • Comet Air Crash video

    Play Comet Air Crash video

    In 1954, disaster struck again when a third Comet jet airliner crashed, throwing the future of commercial avia...

    (1:00)
  • Titanic video

    Play Titanic video

    Count down the moments when an iceberg, too few lifeboats and freezing waters resulted in an oceanic tragedy.

     (0:41)
  • All Videos

EXCLUSIVE GALLERIES

ABOUT THE SHOW

CGI, forensic science and eyewitness accounts combine to re-enact some of the world’s worst disasters.

Blending advanced CGI, re-enactments, archival footage, forensic science, dramatic eyewitness accounts and expert testimony, we recreate in gripping detail the final moments behind some of the most calamitous disasters of modern time.

Comet Air Crash
In early 1954, one of the world’s first passenger jet airliners, the British-made de Havilland Comet, crashes into the Mediterranean 20 minutes after leaving Rome for London. Post-mortem examinations show that many of the 35 people who died suffered highly unusual injuries. Investigators hoped to find answers by piecing together...
Read More

Seconds from Disaster on Facebook

Get news on your profile. Click here
ADVERTISEMENT
http://media.natgeotv.com/Shows/19.jpg
National Geographic Channel