2 Season
45 Episode
Destroyed In Seconds - Season 1 Episode 19
Mulhouse-Habsheim Airport, Mulhouse, France 6/26/1988 – Air France Flight 296 is an Airbus A320-111 low-speed flyover demonstration flight with 130 passengers and 6 crew members on board. It loses lift above the runway, goes into trees and explodes killing 3 passengers. 50 people were injured. 133 people survived. Watkins Glen, NY – grand am racecar series continues in a storm. One loses it on a turn and hits a foam wall, then one after another slam into each other and the wall at 65 mph, followed by five more. Two cars are destroyed. Aniva Bay, Sakhalin, Russia – MI14 sea and land helicopter exercise. One hits the water hard, takes water and can’t get lift. It nosedives and the blades rip off, killing 1. Julian, NC – Piedmont Dragway Powerjam. At night Donny revs his engine so hard it explodes. He pulled the safety too soon and the nitrous detonated and he climbed out of the inferno, and just suffers minor burns. He returns to racing the following month. Montreal, Canada – a 2 floor brick building is engulfed in fire and firemen back off and the front collapses. Right before the chief had the ladder truck back off. It takes hours to put it out. It was a welding torch that started it. Manchester, SD 6/24/03 – Two stormchasers drop probes in front of an F4 tornado. It takes out a farmhouse and buildings. It was a record 100 millibar drop. (similar to 114's version) Red Bluff, CA 5/07 – The nitro nationals dragboat racing. Problem Child (David Ishimaru) has trouble in a trial and they replace a prop. In the next race, it bounces, rolls and goes right over the other boat. Ishimaru’s capsule is ripped off and sent flying. He’s fished out with a broken back. Hwy29 – Rob Stewart rides the 318 twist & turn, 11 mile highway on his motorcycle in TN and NC Smokey Mountains – the tail of the dragon. He passes a slow bike and hits a car head on while making a turn. The bike is a loss.
- Year: 2009
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Documentary, Reality
- Studio: Discovery
- Keyword: destruction
- Director:
- Cast: Ron Pitts
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