Disaster Area

Disaster Area

A podcast about disasters throughout history - what caused them, how people survived, and how we've responded to keep those disasters from happening again.

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Episode 83: Pan Am Flight 73

Episode 83: Pan Am Flight 73

Neerja Bhanot was uniquely successful in two fields - as a model, and as a senior purser for international airline Pan Am. But on September 5, 1986, the bravery of Neerja and her cabin staff was teste...

30 Jun 201859min

Episode 82: The Joelma Building fire

Episode 82: The Joelma Building fire

It would take the worst terrorist attack in modern times to steal the Joelma Building fire's title as the deadliest high-rise fire. On February 1, 1974, the office building in downtown Sao Paulo, Braz...

23 Jun 201857min

Episode 81: The People Hiding in the Truck

Episode 81: The People Hiding in the Truck

It was only supposed to last a few hours. All they would have to do was keep quiet, keep their heads down, and wait it out until they reached Houston. But at two AM on the morning of May 14, 2003, the...

19 Jun 20181h 4min

Episode 80: The Graniteville train crash

Episode 80: The Graniteville train crash

Graniteville, South Carolina, is like a lot of small towns - quiet and filled with hard-working people. It was the quiet that was broken when a moving train struck another train parked on a spur in th...

10 Jun 20181h 9min

Episode 79: The Austin tower shooting

Episode 79: The Austin tower shooting

It was hot that day in August of 1966, so hot you probably could have cracked an egg and cooked it on the sidewalk. Students walking the campus of the University of Texas at Austin did so under the wa...

1 Jun 20181h 16min

Episode 78: The Moorgate tube crash

Episode 78: The Moorgate tube crash

On a busy Friday morning in 1975, the London Underground was packed with people heading off to work at insurance and banking companies. In one six-car train on the Northern Line, driver Leslie Newson ...

28 Mai 201851min

Episode 77: The Pioneer Hotel Fire

Episode 77: The Pioneer Hotel Fire

Forty-two years. That's how long one man spent in prison for setting the deadly fire at the Pioneer International Hotel in Tucson, Arizona, just after midnight on December 20, 1970, when the place was...

18 Mai 20181h 4min

Episode 76: The Baby In The Well

Episode 76: The Baby In The Well

Children of the 80s know their pop culture touchstones - when the Challenger exploded, when the Berlin Wall came down, that time everyone was wondering who shot J.R. One particular 80s moment was a st...

6 Mai 20181h 9min

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