Descent from Disaster
July 16, 2013
2 Seasons • 12 Episodes
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Retrace some of NZ's darkest days to reveal the stories, secrets and lessons learnt from our most famous disasters.
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Retrace some of NZ's darkest days to reveal the stories, secrets and lessons learnt from our most famous disasters.
July 16, 2013 • 45m
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July 23, 2013 • 45m
On July 3rd 1963, a National Airways Corporation DC3 slammed into a rocky ravine deep in the Kaimai Ranges. All 23 passengers and crew were killed. Simon Gault looks back at this tragic story.
July 30, 2013 • 45m
West Coast's Leigh Hart revisits his old hometown of Runanga, where in 1967,it was one of several West Coast towns devastated by the Strongman Mine disaster.
August 6, 2013 • 45m
135 people lost their lives when the S.S. Wairarapa steamed straight into rocks on Great Barrier Island. Andrew Fagan uncovers the stories of heroism and downright cowardice on that tragic night.
August 13, 2013 • 45m
The Hawkes Bay Earthquake of 1931 is New Zealand's deadliest earthquake with over 250 people killed and hundreds more injured. Gary McCormick looks back at this tragic event.
August 20, 2013 • 45m
In 1918, 8500 New Zealanders lost their lives in a influenza pandemic that swept the world, Judy Bailey investigates the affect it had on New Zealand.
