Trapped (National Geographic Channel)
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Trapped is a documentary
Documentary
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 television series that premiered on November 7, 2007 on the National Geographic Channel
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. Produced in association with the National Geographic Channel
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 and Cineflix (which produced Mayday
Mayday (TV series)
Mayday, also known as Air Crash Investigation in the United Kingdom, Australia and Asia and Air Emergency and Air Disasters in the United States, is a Canadian documentary television programme produced by Cineflix investigating air crashes, near-crashes and other disasters...

, also known as Air Crash Investigation), the program examines various actual incidents or disasters in which victims were trapped on the site.

As of 12 December 2007, six episodes have been aired.

Season 1 (2007)

# Episode Title Situation Date of Situation Nature of Situation Original U.S. Airdate
1 Alive in the Andes Fuerza Aérea Uruguaya Flight 571
Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571
Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, also known as the Andes flight disaster, and in South America as Miracle in the Andes was a chartered flight carrying 45 people, including a rugby team, their friends, family and associates that crashed in the Andes on October 13, 1972...

13 October - December 23, 1972 Aircraft crash
Aviation accidents and incidents
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November 7, 2007
A Fairchild FH-227 carrying five crew and forty passengers, many of them rugby
Rugby union
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 players from Stella Maris College
Stella Maris College (Montevideo)
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's "Old Christians" team, hits the side of a mountain (later named as Cerro Seler) in the Andes
Andes
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 Mountains. Twelve of the occupants die instantly; more die as the survivors wait to be rescued. The sixteen remaining survivors are rescued more than two months after the crash.
2 Ocean Emergency RORO vessel Camilla
MV Camilla Desgagnés
The MV Camilla Desgagnés is a Canadian cargo vessel that has operated since 1982 in the waters of eastern and Arctic Canada.Prior to 2003 she was known simply as MV Camilla.-2003 salvage:...

23 January 2003 Disabled ship
Ship
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November 14, 2007
The Camilla, a Finnish
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 roll-on/roll-off cargo ship in Canadian
Canada
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 waters, suffers a main engine failure. With a storm approaching, the captain declares an emergency to the Canadian Coast Guard
Canadian Coast Guard
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. A squad of rescuers fly to the ship and the sixteen members of the Camillas crew are safely evacuated.
3 Osaka Train Wreck Amagasaki rail crash
Amagasaki rail crash
The Amagasaki rail crash occurred on 25 April 2005 at 09:19 local time , just after the local rush hour. The Rapid Service came off the tracks on the West Japan Railway Company Fukuchiyama Line in Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture, near Osaka, just before Amagasaki Station on its way for Dōshisha-mae...

25 April 2005 Train derailment November 21, 2007
A JR-207 type train, bound for Osaka
Osaka
is a city in the Kansai region of Japan's main island of Honshu, a designated city under the Local Autonomy Law, the capital city of Osaka Prefecture and also the biggest part of Keihanshin area, which is represented by three major cities of Japan, Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe...

 on a commuter service, derails on a curve at a speed greater than the limit for that section of track. The two front carriages crash into an adjacent apartment
Apartment
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 block. 107 people are killed and 555 are injured.
4 Earthquake Rapid Response 2005 Kashmir earthquake
2005 Kashmir earthquake
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8 October 2005 – 12 October 2005 Earthquake
Earthquake
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 victim rescue
November 28, 2007
An earthquake
Earthquake
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 of magnitude 7.6 on the Richter scale rocks Pakistan. Two ten-storey blocks in the Margalla Towers, a luxury apartment complex in Islamabad
Islamabad
Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan and the tenth largest city in the country. Located within the Islamabad Capital Territory , the population of the city has grown from 100,000 in 1951 to 1.7 million in 2011...

, collapse. A rescue team from the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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, Rapid UK, goes to Islamabad to help rescue victims from the towers.
5 Hurricane Hospital Tulane Hospital flood
Effect of Hurricane Katrina on Tulane University
As a result of Hurricane Katrina and its effects on New Orleans, Tulane University was closed for the second time in its history—the first being during the American Civil War...

29 August 2005 – 30 August 2005 Flood
Flood
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ed hospital
December 5, 2007
The 300-bed Tulane University Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana
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 takes in patients from other hospitals during Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina
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. Relatives of the patients and others also arrive until there are over 2,000 people at the hospital. The hospital is being powered by emergency generators in the basement and has no running water. When the basement starts to flood after the hurricane, the decision is made to evacuate. The patients, staff and everyone else are airlifted from the hospital's car park roof by helicopter.
6 Cave Rescue Vitarelles cave system 11 November - Late November 1999 Flooded cave December 12, 2007
7 men are trapped underground. They are not saved until over a week later.

See also

  • Blueprint for Disaster
    Blueprint for Disaster
    Blueprint for Disaster is a Canadian documentary television series that premiered in 2004 on Discovery Channel Canada. Produced by Temple Street Productions, the program investigates why and how various disasters have happened. Toronto-based Voice Artist Adrian Bell provided the narration for the...

  • Mayday: Air Crash Investigation
    Mayday (TV series)
    Mayday, also known as Air Crash Investigation in the United Kingdom, Australia and Asia and Air Emergency and Air Disasters in the United States, is a Canadian documentary television programme produced by Cineflix investigating air crashes, near-crashes and other disasters...

  • Seconds from Disaster
    Seconds From Disaster
    -By original broadcast date:National Geographic Channel has broadcast many episodes under multiple titles. The title currently or most recently listed on the NGC Calendar is shown first...

  • Seismic Seconds
    Seismic Seconds
    Seismic Seconds is a documentary television series that aired in the late 1990s on the National Geographic Channel. The program analysed the causes of six incidents, five involving the loss of human life...

  • Situation Critical
    Situation Critical
    Critical Situation is an American documentary television series. Produced in conjunction with the National Geographic Channel, the series examines various disasters or violent incidents. It replaced Seconds From Disaster, a similar program with a more forensic approach...

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