Engineering Disasters: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Engineering has built our modern world. Everything from skyscrapers to roads and air travel exist because of advances in engineering. What happens when engineering goes horribly wrong? Engineering Disasters goes beyond the headlines to uncover what really happened in the most notorious engineering accidents. What caused an outdoor stage to collapse in Indiana, killing seven? How did a collection of classic Corvettes disappear right out of thin air? Why did a plane's fuselage rip open in mid-flight? What was behind the collapse of a domed stadium? Each hour long episode combines expert and eyewitness interviews, state of the art graphics and dramatic ‘moment of disaster' footage to tell the story behind the world's most terrifying engineering disasters.

Series details

• Title: Engineering Disasters
• Format: Documentary
• Language: English
• Genres: Thriller, Mystery, History
• Premiere date: 2015-04-11
• Final broadcast date listed: 2015-05-23
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: History
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 14312
• TVDB ID: 294331

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2015-04-11; final listed air date 2015-05-23; episode order: 8.

Source and licence

Adapted from Engineering Disasters on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.