60 Minutes · SEASON 42

Blackwater 61/Bloom Box/Ground Zero

Episode 20 · 2010-02-21

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BLACKWATER 61 - "Blackwater 61" is the call sign of a plane flown by the embattled government contractor Blackwater that crashed into a mountain in Afghanistan killing all onboard. The widow of one of the soldiers killed - a pilot herself - says the firm was negligent in the way it operated the flight. Steve Kroft reports. Draggan Mihailovich is the producer. THE BLOOM BOX - Large corporations in California have been secretly testing a new device that can generate power on the spot, without being connected to the electric grid. They're saying it's efficient, clean, and saves them money. Will we have one in every home someday? Lesley Stahl reports. Shachar Bar-On is the producer. GROUND ZERO - It's been eight years since the attack on the World Trade Center and billions of dollars have been spent, yet none of the promised buildings and memorial has been completed in what its developer calls "a national disgrace." Scott Pelley reports. Shawn Efran and Catherine Herrick are the producers.

44 minutes

Season 42 episodes

1. McChrystal/The Liquidator/A Living for the Dead2009-09-27 2. The Swindler/130 Million Tons of Waste/The Great Migration2009-10-04 3. Golf Company/A Blow to the Brain/The Birdmen2009-10-11 4. H1N1/The Kanzius Machine/Drew Barrymore2009-10-18 5. 60 Billion Dollar Fraud/Fight for a Cure/Tyler Perry2009-10-25 6. H1N1 Vaccine/Yakuza/The Movie Pirates2009-11-01 7. Cyber War/Andre Agassi2009-11-08 8. The Deadliest Weapon/B-Rex/Resurrecting Eden2009-11-15 9. The Cost of Dying / Witness / Cameron's Avatar2009-11-22 10. Congo's Gold War / Robert Ballard2009-11-29 11. The Zone/Personal Foul2009-12-06 12. President Obama/Growing Body Parts/Ricky Gervais2009-12-13 14. California Water Drought/Oust al Qaeda/The Birdmen2009-12-27 15. A Crack In The Swiss Vault/Delay, Deny And Hope That I Die/The Secret Language Of Elephants2010-01-03 16. Watching The Border/Revelations From The Campaign/Resurrecting The Extinct2010-01-10 17. Haiti/Football Island/Penelope Cruz2010-01-17 18. The Quiet Professionals/White Hot/Beyonce2010-01-31 19. Made In America/Davos/Pigeon Fever2010-02-14 20. Blackwater 61/Bloom Box/Ground Zero2010-02-21 21. Stealing America's Secrets/Battle Over History/Kathryn Bigelow2010-02-28 22. Inside The Collapse/Derek2010-03-14 24. The Case Against Nada Prouty/The Russian Is Coming/The Sharkman2010-03-28 25. Who Owns Your Genes?; Death Sentences Survived; Smokeless Cigarettes2010-04-04 26. Gotti Family Member; Meet the New Missing Link2010-04-11 27. Con men who promise cures to dying victims; actor Al Pacino discusses his career and upcoming roles.2010-04-18 31. Conan O'Brien, The All American Canal,, Chef Jose Andres2010-05-02 32. Homegrown terror, Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, people walking out on their mortgages2010-05-09 33. Deepwater Horizon disaster, Conductor Gustavo Dudamel2010-05-16 34. Are They Safe?/The Seed School/Marty's Big Idea2010-05-23 35. The Deadliest Weapon/Resurrecting the Extinct/Vogue, Anna Wintour2010-05-30 36. The Swindler/The Case Against Nada Prouty/The Sharkman2010-06-06 37. Sabotaging the System/The Great Explorer2010-06-13 38. Assault on Pelindaba/The Liquidator/A Living for the Dead2010-06-20 39. Blackwater 61/Fight for a Cure/Cameron's Avatar2010-06-27 40. Into the Wild: The Great Migration/The Secret Language of Elephants/B-Rex2010-07-04 41. The Lost Children of Haiti/Kathryn Bigelow/White Hot2010-07-11 42. Golf Company/Penelope Cruz/Guiding Light2010-07-18 43. The Narrative, Growing body parts, Tyler Perry2010-07-25 44. Out of the Shadows/Discovery/Derek2010-08-01 45. The Cost of Dying/The Patriarch/Chef Jose Andres2010-08-08 46. A Crack in the Swiss Vault/130 Million Tons of Waste/Pacino2010-08-15 47. The Blowout/The Russian Is Coming2010-08-22 48. Stealing America's Secrets/The Bloom Box/The Birdmen2010-08-29 49. 60 Billion Dollar Fraud/The Seed School/Doubles2010-09-05 50. 21st Century Snake Oil/Beyonce2010-09-12 51. The Swindler/White House Diary: Jimmy Carter/Football Island2010-09-19