E7 - Air Land and Sea
51 min
Planes, trains and ships, our mass transit systems, have had a profound effect on mankind, making the world smaller and more connected. Every year billions of journeys are undertaken without a hitch, but when accidents do happen, when trains collide, planes fall from the sky or ships sink to the bottom of the ocean they shatter lives, taking hundreds, even thousands of passengers with them. These deadly disasters are one in a million events, turning everyday travel into terrifying frontpage news, but surprisingly even when a jumbo jet crashed nose first into a Japanese forest there were survivors. These are the stories of tragedy and survival against the odds, because modern technology and human resilience make a strong team.