Disaster Area

You'd think if your plane crashed fifty meters from the end of the runway, you'd be saved. You'd be wrong.

Videos:

• Disaster Breakdown: Locked into Disaster

Articles and books:

• The Lever of Death: The crash of Dan-Air flight 0034
• Department of Trade report on the accident

Jennifer talks about "Society of the Snow," the award-nominated adaptation of the Pablo Vierci book about the survival story of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571. "Society of the Snow" comes out in select theaters on December 22nd and on Netflix on January 4th. (No, Jennifer has not seen it yet. Although dear God, does she want to.)

On one February morning in 1997, a pair of men dressed in dark clothes entered a North Hollywood bank. What followed would be one of the most frightening things many Americans had ever watched live on TV up to that point.

Videos:

• Zero Hour: The North Hollywood Shootout
• North Hollywood Bank Shootout_February 28, 1997

Articles and books:

• 20 years ago, gunbattle terrorized North Hollywood – and shocked America
• Chilling portrait of robber emerges
• Jury Unsure If Cops Let Shooter Die
• Police Kill 2 Bank Robbery Suspects in a Wild Gun Battle
• Children Offer to Drop Suit in Robber's Death
• 20 years ago, a dramatic North Hollywood shootout changed the course of the LAPD and policing at large
• How the infamous North Hollywood shootout unfolded 20 years ago
• The LAPD use of force report for the North Hollywood shootout
• A Painful Anniversary of Shootout

On one February morning in 1997, a pair of men dressed in dark clothes entered a North Hollywood bank. What followed would be one of the most frightening things many Americans had ever watched live on TV up to that point.

Videos:

• Zero Hour: The North Hollywood Shootout
• North Hollywood Bank Shootout_February 28, 1997

Articles and books:

• 20 years ago, gunbattle terrorized North Hollywood – and shocked America
• Chilling portrait of robber emerges
• Jury Unsure If Cops Let Shooter Die
• Police Kill 2 Bank Robbery Suspects in a Wild Gun Battle
• Children Offer to Drop Suit in Robber's Death
• 20 years ago, a dramatic North Hollywood shootout changed the course of the LAPD and policing at large
• How the infamous North Hollywood shootout unfolded 20 years ago
• The LAPD use of force report for the North Hollywood shootout
• A Painful Anniversary of Shootout

It was just supposed to be a great night out seeing one of the best rock bands in the world. It turned out to be anything but.

Videos:

• What Really Happened During The Who Concert Disaster? We Explain
• The Who: The Night that Changed Rock

Articles and books:

• Crowd surge at a Who concert killed 11 people in 1979: 'It was so strong, it just tore us apart'
• The Who concert 40 years later: Survivors and victims' families relive tragic night in Cincinnati
• They Survived the Who Concert from 'Hell.' Now, They Finally Have Closure
• Lawsuits settled in concert tragedy

Videos:

• The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari (Netflix)
• Sky News Australia airs Krystal Browitt video of tour guide warning
• Trapped in the Volcano

Articles and books:

• Eruption of Whakaari (White Island) kills ten people: September 10th, 1914
• This is the family that owns the Whakaari volcanic Island
• The December 2019 hydrothermal explosion at White Island (Whakaari), New Zealand, and its lessons for Yellowstone
• White Island volcano: what we know about the victims
• White Island volcano eruption: Whakaari Management found guilty of 'astonishing' safety failures
• Why the New Zealand volcano eruption caught the world by surprise
• Insights into the 9 December 2019 eruption of Whakaari/White Island from analysis of TROPOMI SO2 imagery
• White Island volcano: NZ officials charge 13 parties over tragedy
• Geonet Volcanic Alert Levels

It's the first night of winter on a windy night in Scotland when a loud noise broke the quiet over a small village. What followed was a fiery nightmare caused by the cruel intentions of others.

Videos:

• Air Crash Investigations: Pan Am Flight 103
• Lockerbie Bombing: Smithsonian special on Paramount+

Articles and books:

• AAIB report on Pan Am Flight 103
• Skygods, by Robert Gandt
• Colonel Gaddafi 'ordered Lockerbie bombing'
• Anger at Lockerbie bomber welcome
• Pan Am Jet Crashes in Scotland, Killing 270
• Libya Admits Culpability In Crash of Pan Am Plane
• Lockerbie and the worst Christmas imaginable
• New Charges in Pan Am Flight 103 Bombing
• Lockerbie bombing suspect is now in US custody
• Pan Am Flight 103 Terrorist Suspect in Custody for 1988 Bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland
• Syracuse University Remembrance Week Schedule 2023

Videos:

• Air Crash Investigations: Pan Am Flight 103
• Lockerbie Bombing: Smithsonian special on Paramount+

Articles and videos:

• AAIB report on Pan Am Flight 103
• Skygods, by Robert Gandt
• Colonel Gaddafi 'ordered Lockerbie bombing'
• Anger at Lockerbie bomber welcome
• Pan Am Jet Crashes in Scotland, Killing 270
• Libya Admits Culpability In Crash of Pan Am Plane
• Lockerbie and the worst Christmas imaginable
• New Charges in Pan Am Flight 103 Bombing
• Lockerbie bombing suspect is now in US custody
• Pan Am Flight 103 Terrorist Suspect in Custody for 1988 Bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland
• Syracuse University Remembrance Week Schedule 2023

In the third part of our story, we look at the train disaster caused by the tsunami and the aftermath of the disaster.

Videos:

• Compilation in chronological order of videos of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
• The man who Filmed the Tsunami - Shocking footage of the Indonesian disaster
• Thunderbolt 1000 Siren Productions: Sri Lanka Train Disaster 18 Years Later
• The Wave That Shook the World
• Tsunami: Caught on Camera
• 2004 Boxing Day tsunami playlist

Articles and books:

• One train, more than 1,700 dead
• 10 years after tsunami, Utah man recovers, composes music linked to experiences
• The 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami: The Story of the Deadliest Natural Disaster of the 21st Century, by Charles River Editors
• Wave of Destruction: The Stories of Four Families and History's Deadliest Tsunami, by Erich Krauss
• Scientists: Sumatra quake longest ever recorded
• Power of tsunami earthquake heavily underestimated
• Girl, 10, used geography lesson to save lives
• The Devastating 2004 Tsunami: Timeline
• 10 Years Since Dec 26, 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
• 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami: 17 years on, a look back at one of the deadliest natural disasters in history
• Blast from the Past
• The Volcanic Eruption of Krakatoa

First came the earthquake, then came the wave.

Videos:

• Compilation in chronological order of videos of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
• The man who Filmed the Tsunami - Shocking footage of the Indonesian disaster
• Thunderbolt 1000 Siren Productions: Sri Lanka Train Disaster 18 Years Later
• The Wave That Shook the World
• Tsunami: Caught on Camera

Articles and books:

• One train, more than 1,700 dead
• 10 years after tsunami, Utah man recovers, composes music linked to experiences
• The 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami: The Story of the Deadliest Natural Disaster of the 21st Century, by Charles River Editors
• Wave of Destruction: The Stories of Four Families and History's Deadliest Tsunami, by Erich Krauss
• Scientists: Sumatra quake longest ever recorded
• Power of tsunami earthquake heavily underestimated
• Girl, 10, used geography lesson to save lives
• The Devastating 2004 Tsunami: Timeline
• 10 Years Since Dec 26, 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
• 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami: 17 years on, a look back at one of the deadliest natural disasters in history
• Blast from the Past
• The Volcanic Eruption of Krakatoa