Episode 97: The MGM Grand Fire

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Videos:

• Survivors: MGM Grand Casino Fire
• Disaster Chronicles: MGM Grand Fire Las Vegas 1980

Articles and books:

• Clark County Fire Department: MGM Hotel Fire – Nov. 21, 1980 (includes fire report)
• 37 Years Ago: Could MGM Grand fires teach a history lesson?
• Hotel Impossible’s Anthony Melchiorri Revisits the MGM Grand Fire of Nov. 21, 1980
• Killer says deadly Hilton blaze in 1981 ‘wasn’t meant to hurt anybody’

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Episode 96: The Janauba tragedy

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Videos:

• • Creche Em Janaúba Momentos Difíceis
  • Família das vítimas contam como receberam notícia sobre o massacre de Janaúba

Articles and books:

• Security guard kills six children in nursery school arson attack in Brazil
• Six children dead after Brazilian nursery school guard sets them on fire
• Michel Temer honours heroine of Janaúba with National Order of Merit
• Distúrbio psiquiátrico e obsessão: saiba quem era o vigia que matou crianças em Janaúba
• Teacher dies after 2 months in hospital, and fire in MG daycare reaches 13 deaths
• New building of Innocent People’s Daycare opens in Janaúba
• Vigia who burned day care in MG did not follow psychiatric treatment, says expert…

Episode 95: The Sunshine Skyway bridge collapse

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Videos:

• Archived WTVT coverage: Sunshine Skyway Bridge tragedy
• Suicide and the dark side of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge
• Sunshine Skyway Bridge – The Story

Articles and books:

• The Sunshine Skyway Bridge plunged into Tampa Bay 38 years ago
• 38 years later: Looking back on the Sunshine Skyway Bridge tragedy
• It’s been 38 years since collapse of Sunshine Skyway. Recording of mayday call shows day’s horror.
• Skyway: The True Story of Tampa Bay’s Signature Bridge and the Man Who Brought It Down, by Bill DeYoung

Episode 94: The sinking of the Wahine

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Videos:

• Wahine sinking footage, part one; part two ; part three; part four, and part five
• The 20th anniversary of the Wahine disaster
• Wahine disaster – 50 years on
• Epilogue to Tragedy

Articles and books:

• NZ History: Wahine disaster
• The Wahine disaster, by Max Lambert and Jim Hartley
• Out There in Wellington: Wahine Memorials
• Life Flight: Our History

Episode 93: The Women’s War

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Articles and books:

• The unforgettable story of courage, bravery, and rebellion
• Aba Women’s Riots (November-December 1929)
• Strength of A Woman: The Story of Aba Women’s War by Onigegewura
• Igbo women campaign for rights (The Women’s War) in Nigeria, 1929

Episode 92: The Pan Am Building helicopter crash

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Videos:

• The Death and Life of Helicopter Commuting

Articles and books:

• Helicopter flips over atop building on Park Avenue in 1977
• Aviation Safety Network listing on the crash
• Wired New York forum with information on the removal of the wreckage and an eyewitness account
• May 16, 1977 | 5 Killed in Helicopter Accident on Top of Pan Am Building
• NTSB report on the crash
• This Day in Aviation: The Pan Am Building helicopter crash
• New York Times: 5 KILLED AS GOPTER ON PAN AM BUILDING THROWS ROTOR BLADE

Episode 91: The Thredbo disaster

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Videos:

• 60 Minutes Australia, the Survivor: Parts one and two
• Trapped Underground segment on the Thredbo landslide

Articles and books:

• Thredbo disaster 20 years on: Pain lingers after horror of snowfield landslide
• Stuart Diver: ‘Tragedy stays with you forever’
• The terrifying roar behind Thredbo tragedy
• Survival, by Stuart Diver and Simon Bouda
• Heroes of Thredbo