Forensic engineering
When disaster strikes, finding the cause is the role of forensic engineers.
A 100 year-old mystery
Even today, there is much debate about the precise cause of the Tay Bridge disaster.
The Shuttle explosion
Challenger flew nine successful Space Shuttle missions.On January 28, 1986, the Challenger and its seven-member crew were lost 73 seconds after launch. Read more about the Challenger disaster.
The Concorde crash
The blot on a technological record card: the Paris crash, the only accident involving a Concorde.
Railway investigations
The UK railways network is surprisingly safe - but when things go wrong, they can be disastrous - as with Hatfield.
Disaster in West Virgina
46 people died when a crossing on the Ohio River collapsed. Our video recreates the investigation into the Silver Bridge Disaster.
Tornado solves a puzzle
Could a nineteenth-century mystery have finally been solved by the 2003 collapse at Kinzua?
