Engineering Gone Wrong
Episode 3: The Night Bhopal's Safety Systems Failed
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In the 3rd episode of Engineering Gone Wrong, we head to Bhopal, India, where a pesticide plant became the site of one of the deadliest industrial disasters in history.
On the night of December 3rd, 1984, a toxic gas leak turned a sleeping city into a catastrophe.
How did a chemical plant's safety systems fail so completely? What caused the toxic gas leak? And could the disaster have been…