High Speed Train Wreck (Derailment at Eschede) Seconds from Disaster : Season 1 Episode 5
TV-PG National Geographic 1h 00m
Aired: August 3rd, 2004 @ 8:30 PM EST on National Geographic
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?
