Seconds From Disaster

Name: High Speed Train Wreck (Derailment at Eschede)
Released: 2005-09-26
Duration: 45 min

Season 1 • Episode 5: High Speed Train Wreck (Derailment at Eschede) • Watch with subtitles

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Episode 5: High Speed Train Wreck (Derailment at Eschede)

September 26, 2005 • 45 min

June 1998. The new German InterCity Express is a trip from Munich to Hamburg, one of many. Today should be no different. The new train offers the ultimate luxury in high-speed travel. But a terrible accident sets off a chain of events causing the loss of 101 lives when the train derails catastrophically at the town of Eschede. But what caused such a horrible accident?

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