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Can 5 Engineers Escape A Plane Wreckage?

UK television broadcaster Channel 4 is launching a new series this weekend, led by Former Royal Engineer Ant Middleton, which will follow a group of five engineers who are stranded at a 'crash site' in a hostile environment.

Episode 1, Escape from the Desert, will air this Sunday at 20:00 BST and follows five highly-skilled engineers, who are abandoned in a remote desert among the wreckage of a simulated plane crash.

Ex-Special Forces soldier and survival expert Ant Middleton's mission is to keep them alive in the hostile environment, their mission is to design and construct a powered vehicle from the wreckage - and escape.

The engineers, two men and three women, each bring a specific skill set to the team; an aerobatic pilot, a traditional craftsman, an aerospace engineer and two mechanical engineers.  At the remote crash site, they don’t have the luxury of a workshop, or even proper tools, to repurpose the wreckage.  Day after day the searing desert heat takes its toll and with food and water in short supply Ant must motivate a physically and emotionally exhausted team to engineer their way out of an increasingly critical situation.

Day after day the searing desert heat takes its toll and with food and water in short supply Ant must motivate a physically and emotionally exhausted team to engineer their way out of an increasingly critical situation.

I will certainly be tuning in... 

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