Trapped (National Geographic Channel)

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 An aviation accident is defined in the Convention on International Civil Aviation Annex 13 as an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, in which a...	November 7, 2007
1	A Fairchild FH-227 carrying five crew and forty passengers, many of them rugby Rugby union Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand... players from Stella Maris College Stella Maris College (Montevideo) The Stella Maris College of Montevideo, commonly referred as Christian Brothers College – Stella Maris or just Christian, is a private, co-educational, not-for-profit Catholic school run by the Christian Brothers of Ireland... 's "Old Christians" team, hits the side of a mountain (later named as Cerro Seler) in the Andes Andes The Andes is the world's longest continental mountain range. It is a continual range of highlands along the western coast of South America. This range is about long, about to wide , and of an average height of about .Along its length, the Andes is split into several ranges, which are separated... 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 Since the end of the age of sail a ship has been any large buoyant marine vessel. Ships are generally distinguished from boats based on size and cargo or passenger capacity. Ships are used on lakes, seas, and rivers for a variety of activities, such as the transport of people or goods, fishing,...	November 14, 2007
2	The Camilla, a Finnish Finland Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside... roll-on/roll-off cargo ship in Canadian Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean... waters, suffers a main engine failure. With a storm approaching, the captain declares an emergency to the Canadian Coast Guard Canadian Coast Guard The Canadian Coast Guard is the coast guard of Canada. It is a federal agency responsible for providing maritime search and rescue , aids to navigation, marine pollution response, marine radio, and icebreaking... . 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
3	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 An apartment or flat is a self-contained housing unit that occupies only part of a building... block. 107 people are killed and 555 are injured.
4	Earthquake Rapid Response	2005 Kashmir earthquake 2005 Kashmir earthquake The 2005 Kashmir earthquake was a major earthquake centered in Pakistan-administered Kashmir known as Azad Kashmir, near the city of Muzaffarabad, affecting Gilgit-Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It occurred at 08:52:37 Pakistan Standard Time on 8 October 2005...	8 October 2005 – 12 October 2005	Earthquake Earthquake An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. The seismicity, seismism or seismic activity of an area refers to the frequency, type and size of earthquakes experienced over a period of time... victim rescue	November 28, 2007
4	An earthquake Earthquake An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. The seismicity, seismism or seismic activity of an area refers to the frequency, type and size of earthquakes experienced over a period of time... 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 The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... , 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 A flood is an overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land. The EU Floods directive defines a flood as a temporary covering by water of land not normally covered by water... ed hospital	December 5, 2007
5	The 300-bed Tulane University Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana New Orleans, Louisiana New Orleans is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana. The New Orleans metropolitan area has a population of 1,235,650 as of 2009, the 46th largest in the USA. The New Orleans – Metairie – Bogalusa combined statistical area has a population... takes in patients from other hospitals during Hurricane Katrina Hurricane Katrina Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was a powerful Atlantic hurricane. It is the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States. Among recorded Atlantic hurricanes, it was the sixth strongest overall... . 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
6	7 men are trapped underground. They are not saved until over a week later.

Season 1 (2007)

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