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S2010E40: Trapped - The Chile Miners' Story

Panorama · Season 2010
Aired 18 Oct 2010 at 7:30pm (UTC)
Trapped - The Chile Miners' Story

Synopsis

Trapped alive longer and deeper underground than anybody in history, the 33 Chilean miners somehow survived to be rescued. For weeks, Panorama followed and engineers at the surface as they worked to free the men. But should they ever have been trapped in the first place? Reporter Dan McDougall reveals new evidence of massive safety problems in the mine being ignored just weeks before the collapse.

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