Seconds from Disaster Chicago Plane Crash (Season 3, Episode 9)
TV Episode | Documentary

Seconds from Disaster

Chicago Plane Crash (Season 3, Episode 9)

TV Episode | Documentary

On May 25, 1979, an American Airlines DC-10 loses an engine at take-off and crashes into a trailer park killing all 271 on board. The investigation shows that short-cuts at maintenance resulted in damaged attachments of the engine pylon.

Director

Nick Metcalfe

Producers

Nick Metcalfe | Charlotte Surtees

Composer

The Insects

Editor

Dudley Sargeant

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Edit Released

Updated Nov 29, 2006

Release date

Nov 29, 2006 (United Kingdom)

Awards

Series awards

3 wins & 1 nomination

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18 cast members

Name	Known for
Leigh Livingstone Debra Moruzzi Debra Moruzzi See fewer	Popcorn Podcast (2019)
Ken Burger Self - Former Police Dog Trainer Self - Former Police Dog Trainer See fewer	Seconds from Disaster (2004)
Ray DeVito Self - Friend of a Passenger on Flt. 191 Self - Friend of a Passenger on Flt. 191 See fewer	Keeping It Too Real (2011)
Sandra Evans NTSB Investigator NTSB Investigator See fewer	Simon Schama's Power of Art (2006)
Lee Foster Passanger Passanger See fewer	Seconds from Disaster (2004)
John Heavey Self - Former Fire Service Paramedic Self - Former Fire Service Paramedic See fewer	Seconds from Disaster (2004)
Guy Henderson NTSB Investigator NTSB Investigator See fewer	Popular Unrest (2010)
Dennis Hewitt James Dillard James Dillard See fewer	Entwinement (2013)
Benedict James NTSB Investigator NTSB Investigator See fewer	Seconds from Disaster (2004)
William Scott Johnson NTSB Investigator (as Scott Johnson) NTSB Investigator (as Scott Johnson) See fewer	A Home for the Bullets (2005)
Bud Laynor Self - Former Chief of Engineering, NTSB Self - Former Chief of Engineering, NTSB See fewer	Air Crash Investigation (2003)
Michael Lux Self - Capt. Walter Lux's Son Self - Capt. Walter Lux's Son See fewer	Seconds from Disaster (2004)
Michael Marx Self - Former Investigator NTSB Self - Former Investigator NTSB See fewer	Air Crash Investigation Special Report (2018)
James McNeill Air Traffic Controller Ed Rucker Air Traffic Controller Ed Rucker See fewer	Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
Ashton Smith Narrator (voice) Narrator (voice) See fewer	Major League II (1994)
Cara Spisak Eyewitness Eyewitness See fewer	The Be All and End All (2009)
Annie Vanders Passenger Passenger See fewer	Doghouse (2009)
Richard Waters NTSB Lead Investigator Mike Marx NTSB Lead Investigator Mike Marx See fewer	Judge Dredd (1997)