Season 1, Episode 5

High Speed Train Wreck (Derailment at Eschede)

Air Date: 2005-09-26

Overview: 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?

Runtime: 45 minutes