Seconds From Disaster

Theories abound as to why the nuclear-powered Kursk sank to the bottom of the Barents Sea, but one thing is certain: all 118 sailors aboard perished.

A truck bomb explodes at the American embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, killing 213 people and injuring 4,000 others. As investigators interrogate a suspect, the name of the organization that recruited him and planned the bombing comes out: Al-Qaeda.

Two months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a plane slams into a residential area of New York City - home to many firemen, police and their families already deeply affected by the events of 9/11.

On September 5, 1972 the world wakes to the news that terrorists have killed two Israeli athletes and captured nine others at the Olympic Games in Munich.

Nearly 100 years later, the story of the Titanic continues to capture the world's imagination. What caused the largest and most luxurious passenger liner ever built to sink on her maiden voyage?

During the super-carrier USS Forrestal's first combat mission, a tragic accident leaves 134 men dead.

In December 2004 the biggest earthquakes in the last forty years rocked South Asia with an energy equivalent to more than 23,000 Hiroshima bombs.

January, 1954. One of the world's first passenger jet aircrafts, Comet Flight 781 disappears over the Mediterranean Sea, killing everyone on board. The tragedy launches one of the most critical and complex investigations in aviation history.