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On July 25, 2000 a Concorde supersonic jet operating as Air France Flight 4590 takes off from Charles de Gaulle Airport. A piece of metal from another aircraft left on the runway impales the Concorde's tyre, which explodes. Debris is flung into the wing, causing a fire and the Concorde's crash into a hotel in Gonesse, killing the 100 passengers and nine crew members on board, as well as four others in the hotel.
Here with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of Seconds from Disaster in this episode Crash of the Concorde.

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This is a true story, Dramatizations are derived from eyewitness testimony and second-hand accounts.

At the Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, coal miners accidentally dug into the poorly documented Saxman Mine, causing 500 million tonnes of underground water to flood the Quecreek

Here with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of Situation Critical in this episode Coal Mine Disaster.

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This is a true story, Dramatizations are derived from eyewitness testimony and second-hand accounts.

Priz AS-28, a miniature submarine of the Russian Navy, becomes entangled in sunken fishing nets at a depth of 190 m in Berezovaya Bay off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The submarine was freed with the aid of a British remotely operated vehicle.

Here with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of Situation Critical in this episode Running Out of Air.

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The Ring of Fire is an area where a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur in the basin of the Pacific Ocean. In a 40,000 km (25,000 mi) horseshoe shape, it is associated with a nearly continuous series of oceanic trenches, volcanic arcs, and volcanic belts and/or plate movements.It has 452 volcanoes and is home to over 75% of the world's active and dormant volcanoes. It is sometimes called the circum-Pacific belt or the circum-Pacific seismic belt.
About 90% of the world's earthquakes and 81% of the world's largest earthquakes occur along the Ring of Fire. The next most seismic region (5--6% of earthquakes and 17% of the world's largest earthquakes) is the Alpide belt, which extends from Java to Sumatra through the Himalayas, the Mediterranean, and out into the Atlantic. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is the third most prominent earthquake belt.
The Ring of Fire is a direct result of plate tectonics and the movement and collisions of lithospheric plates. The eastern section of the ring is the result of the Nazca Plate and the Cocos Plate being subducted beneath the westward moving South American Plate. The Cocos Plate is being subducted beneath the Caribbean Plate, in Central America. A portion of the Pacific Plate along with the small Juan de Fuca Plate are being subducted beneath the North American Plate. Along the northern portion, the northwestward-moving Pacific plate is being subducted beneath the Aleutian Islands arc. Farther west, the Pacific plate is being subducted along the Kamchatka Peninsula arcs on south past Japan. The southern portion is more complex, with a number of smaller tectonic plates in collision with the Pacific plate from the Mariana Islands, the Philippines, Bougainville, Tonga, and New Zealand; this portion excludes Australia, since it lies in the center of its tectonic plate. Indonesia lies between the Ring of Fire along the northeastern islands adjacent to and including New Guinea and the Alpide belt along the south and west from Sumatra, Java, Bali, Flores, and Timor. The famous and very active San Andreas Fault zone of California is a transform fault which offsets a portion of the East Pacific Rise under southwestern United States and Mexico. The motion of the fault generates numerous small earthquakes, at multiple times a day, most of which are too small to be felt. The active Queen Charlotte Fault on the west coast of the Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada, has generated three large earthquakes during the 20th century: a magnitude 7 event in 1929; a magnitude 8.1 in 1949 (Canada's largest recorded earthquake); and a magnitude 7.4 in 1970.
- en.wikipedia.org

Here with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of How The Earth Was Made in this episode The Ring of Fire.

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This is a true story, Dramatizations are derived from eyewitness testimony and second-hand accounts.

Members of United States Navy SEALs are ambushed by Al-Qaeda forces. During the initial ambush and subsequent battle, three Chinook helicopters were lost before the SEALs and reinforcements consisting of units of the 75th Ranger Regiment brought the engagement to a conclusion.

Here with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of Situation Critical in this episode Al-Qaeda Ambush.

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Seven climbers trying to scale the slopes of Mount Hood fall into a crevasse resulting in the deaths of three climbers. Then the rescue operation goes wrong, causing the crash of a rescue helicopter.

Here with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of Situation Critical in this episode Nightmare on Mt. Hood.

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The last survivor of a fatal avalanche is helicoptered of k2 one other climbing world's most demanding mountains. Disaster-hit during the descent to the steep gully known as the bottleneck. Eleven people are dead others stranded on the second highest peak in the world. It's that deadliest day in this mountains history.

In June 2008 an international team of Mountaineers set off on a journey to summit K2 armed with video cameras recorded their attempt to conquer the unforgiving mountain. The journey to K2 stretches from Skardu airport in Pakistan onto the Karakoram highway the highest international paved road in the world. After many hours by jeep the road ends in the town of vesco
from there a long walk through deep alleys, narrow paths, and rocky hillsides.
After eight days have treacherous terrain at the far northern end of Pakistan close to the Chinese border surrounded by some of the highest peaks in the world, lies K2.

There are four main camps on the way to the k2 summit. Lower oxygen levels on the mountain mean every climber must stop on their way up to acclimatize to the different altitudes.
The final push to the summit usually starts from camp four weeding through a technically difficult a notorious passage known as a bottleneck. From there a roughly 1,000 foot climb leads to the summit.

Here are some of the interview from this trip.
"The Sun was shining it was brilliant still on the summit but what happened on the way back I still can believe in"

"Leaving a battleground, you're losing a war"

"We were all withering away, we were our slowly dying"
"You couldn't ask for a better day in a million years and only and K2 is a perfect Sunday become a deadly day"

"When I saw K2 for the first time I don't think I've ever been so scared and happy at the same time looking at a mountain. It's just creepy feeling between wanting something and trying to run away from something"


Here with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of National Geographic in this episode Fatal Altitude Tragedy on K2.

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This perilous journey Marsh Mokhtari travelled to India's Himalayan mountains to take on the world's highest drivable roads Khardung La. Only Marsh Mokhtari and his SUV and is now a cliffside road. This path is only inches to spare as well as ice snow and avalanches and then he arrived in a war zone. Here this is fragile as the are is thin.

Indian is a home to more than billion people and one of the world and one of the world's fastest-growing economies. But in the Shorthernmost sate called Jammu and Kashmire. These towering mountains keep this region largely isolated from the rest of the country.

Here the mountain roads are treacherous climbing as many as 10 people each year. The twisted wreckage a van that carried five german tourists to their death in 1990 reminds him of the hazards of face.

Here with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of Perilous Journeys in this episode Crossing The Himalaya .

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