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People Are Remembering The Biggest Catastrophic Failures Of Various Human-Made Devices And Here’re 30 Of The Most Devastating Pics
Where there are machines and devices, there’s always a chance they may, one day, out of nowhere, just stop working. Sometimes, it’s just a mere nuisance, other times, if we're talking about big, major structures, the outcome may be catastrophic.
There’s even a whole corner of Reddit dedicated to the latter. The subreddit Catastrophic Failure is a place to share some unfortunate and peculiar scenarios of what happens when things like a chemical storage facility has a leak or when water lines freeze and burst in Texas during the record low temperatures.
So let’s scroll through the compilation below, which is honestly both frightening and a reminder that we all have to be more careful to make sure such accidents won't happen.
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#1
April 28, 1988: The Roof Of An Aloha Airlines Jet Ripped Off In Mid-Air At 24,000 Feet
The plane still managed to land safely. One Stewardess was sucked out of the plane. Her body was never found.
Alexandru Bucur 4 years ago
Her name was Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing and at 58, she was senior flight attendant of Aloha Airlines.
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Jean-Daniel Mohier 4 years ago (edited)
Me too. At the same time it's a weird psychological trick our mind plays on ourselves when one people dying feels worse than if the whole plane had crashed and everybody had died. I guess it's because we can empathize more easily for a single person or a small group of people than for a large number that becomes abstract.
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Vicky Zar 4 years ago
Oh my God. That must have been a terrifying experience. I bet neither of them bordered any plane again for the rest of their life.
Monday 4 years ago
For those curious, there's a half-decent documentary about this one on Youtube where they actually talk to a couple of the people from the flight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYa7Fq5Ec6c&ab_channel=Wonder
C. D. McCullum 4 years ago
I remember a movie in the early 90's about this.
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Thomas Gray 4 years ago
Needless to say, this incident caused the FAA to implement new regulations for fuselage metal fatigue testing.
Troux 4 years ago (edited)
My first thought was "we would have lost a lot more in modern days". People with earphones in and seatbelts unbuckled all the time.
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Katherine Heasley 4 years ago
I'm amazed at how many people survived. At that altitude, temperatures are freezing, and the air is thin. I'd guess a lot of people passed out before the pilot could get down to an altitude people can survive.
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#2
May 7, 2021: Tourist Trapped 100m High On Chinese Glass Bridge After Floor Panels Blow Out
Vicky Zar 4 years ago
I hope he was the only one on there.... I don't want to imagine the alternative.
matilda 4 years ago
I think I heard about this one, they (owners of the attraction) said that was the advert only but Investigators found it wasn't and he was really trapped 😱😱😱😱😱
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Sapna Sarfare 4 years ago
This is why i don't trust anything which involves walking on glass on such heights
LazyPanda 4 years ago
Seriously! Took so long for me to warm up to the idea and now it's all shattered in one photo.
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Joonscrab 4 years ago
I thought the same and no one commented about it so I thought I was going there was something wrong with either BP or me.
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Jo Johannsen 4 years ago
Since the first time I heard of that bridge, this was what I expected to eventually happen. I wish I had been wrong.
#3
The View Of The Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse From Atop The Suspension Cabling, 1940
Skara Brae 4 years ago
Locals called the bridge "Galloping Gertie" Video of it galloping here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-zczJXSxnw
Otter 4 years ago
I want to know who was up in the cables with a camera, when the bridge was twisting itself into structural failure!
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April Caron 4 years ago
Whaaaa?!!! I drive over the newest version of this bridge weekly. I never knew it had a history that included collapse! It’s super high above the water, too.
Queen Mab 4 years ago (edited)
A man was driving across the bridge at the time. He had his daughter's cocker spaniel with him. The bridge deck was swaying and twisting so badly he had to crawl on his hands and knees off the bridge. The little dog was too frightened to get out of the car. So I guess there was a casualty that day. Bridge was rebuilt and a few years ago another bridge was built along side it for southbound traffic (I think for southbound). Check out the video.
In order to find out how one such catastrophe has changed the fashion industry forever, Bored Panda spoke with Ieva Zubavičiūtė, CEO of Fashion Bloc, consultant and investor in sustainable fashion. “On the 24th of April 2013, the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh collapsed killing 1,134 people and severely injuring thousands of garment factory workers.”
Ieva said that the catastrophe was a turning point “for many to find out that our clothes were being made in deadly environments and nobody wanted to be accountable for that.” Moreover, “The collapse of Rana Plaza, a multiple factory facility that manufactured clothing for brands such as Benetton, Mango, Primark, and dozens of others, was a wake-up call to the industry.”
#4
November 02, 2020: Train Breaks Through Barrier Onto Statue At The End Of The Line. Happened In The Middle Of The Night, No Injuries As Of Yet. Spijkenisse, The Netherlands
Katinka Min 4 years ago
That artist will be patting himself/herself on the back for the rest of her/his life.
Vicky Z 4 years ago
He actually commented that he was glad his work prevented any further damage or injuries and was surprised it was so strong!
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Tim Pillinger 4 years ago
The artist said that he was surprised that the whale was that strong
Monic Krugell 4 years ago
I am glad for the awkwardly placed statue as it could have been way worse
Lady Vader 4 years ago
No injuries as of yet. It was almost a year ago so I think we can officially call that one.
#5
August 14, 2020: Chocolate Snows Down On Swiss Town Due To Factory Defect
jammer 4 years ago
And those worse things would be the same colour as well.
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Lyuben Petkov 4 years ago
Where are the photos of the thousands of kids, walking around with their mouths open and tongues out?
Vicky Z 4 years ago
Kids? Why do we have to be kids to do that? I would be like that too!!
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Zedrapazia 4 years ago
Swiss here! It was actually a nightmare to clean it off from cars because it would only cause smears when washing it with water. It was a really funny incident tough.
Riley Quinn 4 years ago
Sounds hilarious at first, but given how chocolate is toxic for many animals, this is actually dangerous.
#6
December 2019 In Detroit: A Large Amount Of Chromium-6 Leaked Into The Ground From A Chemical Storage Facility That Contained It Improperly. It Was Only Found Out When It Leaked Onto A Nearby Highway
Fluffy Griffin 4 years ago
You want to think "oh, well it was discovered and then properly fixed" but look at Flint, Michigan (lead in the water supply). That's been documented since 2014 and is still a problem.
Heather Riddle 4 years ago
Also this happened in a suburb and not an inner city so yeah I suspect the response is completely different.
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Susan Williamson 4 years ago
Improper? I know where that building is and I saw it everyday. It had a pit inside a 'factory' and the owner filled it with this stuff and it leached for over a decade. The Chromium was found in a local river. He deserves a lot of years for what he did and the local official I believe knew about it too.
Rissie 4 years ago
"Chromium-6"... Right. That's ectoplasm and we know it! So who ya gonna call?
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
And that's why you need constant infrastructure repair and regulation, folks.
RedSkywalker 4 years ago
Actually, when solved in water Chromium-6 instantly become harmless Chromium-3.
“Sadly, this was not the first or the last tragedy that could have been avoided if the required safety measures were taken or brands would have monitored their supply chains adequately,” Ieva added. Nevertheless, it helped raise public awareness and initiate campaigns demanding transparency.
“One of the biggest impacts of the Rana Plaza tragedy is public awareness and the beginning of the Fashion Revolution movement. Every April, people are encouraged to demand transparency from the brands they wear by asking #whomademyclothes on social media.”
#7
Gas Leak Into Water Main Taiwan
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
Weird - looks like some of the cars are still intact!
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Hotdogking 4 years ago
This looks like an anime villain just threw the hero during their fight
Jean-Daniel Mohier 4 years ago
A series of gas explosions in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung has killed 25 people and injured 267 others, officials say. It was in 2014. :((( Kaohsiung is such a wonderful city, and people there are amazing. So sad.
Yugan Talovich 4 years ago
They're still trying to figure out what the mayor did with the money people contributed for relief.
Vicky Z 4 years ago
This s**t happens everywhere doesn't it? That's why i never contribute anymore in accounts given by the government! We still trying to find out where is the money that people donated for the fires we had two years ago in Greece! People never got them! F**k all those authorities who do this s**t!!!!
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Janet Graham 3 years ago
We had an interesting case of industrial pollution in the Denver, CO area in the late 1970s into the 1980s. Manhole covers kept blowing off in a small neighborhood. It did not take long to track it back to a corner that had 3 gas stations. It took a few years of research and a trial to get the offending station to clean up their mess. One of their underground storage tanks had sprung a leak and they were releasing gasoline into the groundwater. They drained the tanks and removed them. They dug up all of the affected soil and hauled it to a hazardous waste dump. There were several (10 ish) homes that had detectable gasoline in their basements. The Oil company had to buy all of the homes at market value. Only three of the homes could be cleaned up enough to sell. The other homes were demolished and the land became a park. If not for fortune, allof those homes could have blown up! It was shortly after this that EPA issued the regulations on underground tanks and the monitoring requirement
#8
2019: Cars Getting Transported On An Open Deck Catch On Fire After Salty Water Shorts Their Batteries
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
One car killed the lot. Something more than just saltwater on a battery caused this though, probably unshielded terminals and sodden bonnet insulation?
M O'Connell 4 years ago
The fault was probably not at the battery directly, but in a wiring harness or within the power distribution panel itself.
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Glynna Bowood 4 years ago
I imagine the Salt Water alone would cause some corrosion inside and on the outside of these cars. How can they be allowed to be transported on the open deck like that!?
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
Are there not rules and regulations for transporting these and other dangerous thing on ships? Anyone else noted a lot of theses are foreign ships - different regulations?
Grant Barke 4 years ago
If only there was some large amount of water we could use to put that fire out.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
It is extremely hazardous to attempt putting out a vehicle fire with water, as most flammable liquids float on water, and would only be spread around.
Load More Replies... WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Dodgy European dealers send cars that are not road worthy in Europe to various African countries. So a lot of dangerous death traps won't be killing people in Africa.
Brivid 4 years ago
This vessel was taking brand new cars made in Mexico to the Middle East.
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35 Years Ago, Space Shuttle Challenger Disintegrated And Killed All 7 Crew, Due To Failure Of A Joint In The Right Srb, Which Was Caused By Inability Of The Srb's O-Rings To Handle The Cold Temperatures At Launch
Monday 4 years ago (edited)
All the engineers agreed it wasn't safe....all the managers decided they knew better.
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Fulsome Kitten 4 years ago
Did anyone else watch this live in elementary school with their classmates? I think we all experienced a bit of trauma that day. RIP astronauts :(
Catlady6000 4 years ago
The channel I was watching this on had a small square showing Christa McAuliffe's parents' reaction to this flight. I still remember their faces going from worried excitement to disbelief and confusion to absolute devastation.
Justy 4 years ago (edited)
(Not so)Fun Fact: My mom's 4th grade science teacher was one of the people who wanted to go on the challenger, but was rejected. His friend, Christa McAuliffe was one of the people who did get picked...and she died on the challenger.
Moo Moo Futch 4 years ago
Awful seeing this on tv and then awful seeing the one in Jan/Feb 2003 blow on re-entry.
“In the same way, brands are asked to celebrate their makers. Fashion Revolution created a transparency index where they rate hundreds of major brands - from luxury houses such as Chanel to high-street labels such as Zara on the transparency of their supply chain,” Ieva explained. “Movements such as Fashion Revolution help the public make more informed decisions when buying clothes and prioritize transparency,” the fashion industry expert concluded.
#10
Red Wine Cistern Catastrophically Ruptures At Sicilian Winery
Ben Steinberg 4 years ago
Here! Take these cheese and crackers with you for safety!!
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Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
*millions of french people flock to the wine* *the crowd clears and there is no more wine*
Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago (edited)
Bring me the biggest cheese and cold cuts platter you have!
#11
January 17, 2021: Final Seconds Of The Ukrainian Cargo Ship Before Breaks In Half And Sinks At Bartin Anchorage, Black Sea
Nixxy 4 years ago
An you imagine how terrifying it would be to be on that ship? Imagine the noise of metal cracking in half 😬
Queen Jackson. 4 years ago
Nooooo why would you say that. That’s horrible.
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Kendra Keller 4 years ago
Oh wow wow wow wow this picture is giving me so much anxiety. I think it's because I'm not the biggest fan of the ocean because it's super scary and then I could definitely imagine putting myself on that ship when it happens
Kenny Kulbiski 4 years ago
Exactly what I was thinking. That's not very rough.
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Queen Jackson. 4 years ago
That’s it. Never flying in a plane, never learning to swim, never going on a boat unless it’s in a river I can see the bottom of, never anything.
Queen Jackson. 4 years ago
I’m guessing they didn’t know it was going to split like that, so why was it being recorded in the first place?
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Roxy Eastland 4 years ago
Woah, just watched the video and you can hear the frantic mayday radio shout outs from the bridge, poor guy, so scary.
#12
Boeing 777 Engine Failed At 13000 Feet. Landed Safely
Grant Barke 4 years ago
This was caused by a hideous sky gremlin deliberately damaging the engine. John Lithgow the actor has seen one on a flight once.
Troux 4 years ago
Commercial planes are all required (and tested) to be able to take off, fly and land with 50% engine capacity, FYI. Don't panic if it happens to you!
Adur Bdur 4 years ago
Aaaah that's the secret, don't panic. Sounds good, doesn't work :)
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Jean-Daniel Mohier 4 years ago
If you're afraid of flying, you should know that everything on aircraft is built redundantly so that if one system fails the other can take over. What that means is that one engine down is not enough to take down a plane (usually) which is probably why the crew was able to land the plane safely. Also you would have to fly non stop for 2000 YEARS to risk dying in a plane crash. A very low probability. Hope that helps. Be safe.
Mile High Moose 4 years ago
The ARFF rigs from my firehouse were the first ones on scene when it landed. We put it out on the runway using just two rigs. When this happened it left parts of the plane in several areas of the suburbs north of Denver.
Logic and Reason 4 years ago
I saw that plane while it was burning, it was a crazy experience.
Created back in 2015, the subreddit features “videos, gifs, or aftermath photos of machinery, structures, or devices that have failed catastrophically during operation,” states its description. Today, it has a whopping 1.5M members, so it’s obvious that huge audiences find the content very entertaining.
#13
December 19, 2019: Drill Bit After Taking Out Some Of London's Internet
Cold Contagious 4 years ago
Call before you dig... "Where's your sign?", we have the "Call" signs posted everywhere in the US. However, I'd say that there's still many ppl who think they know better and just don't bother.
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Carrie Laughs 4 years ago
This was a complete stuff up on the part of the company doing the works - there are many things they should have used, checked and found out beforehand to ensure they don't do this!
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Chancey 4 years ago
He has that look of "who the hell put all these cables here to mess up my drill bit?"
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F. H. 4 years ago
I could swear this picture is older than 2019, I have to go through my collection.
Joey Marlin 4 years ago (edited)
It was December 2019. It was a Virgin Media cable and didn't really have that big an impact location-wise. Unless you were a customer of course!
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#14
$1,250,000 Worth Of Corn Spilled After Silo Collapse In New Carlisle, Ohio On Jan 28, 2018
Martin Kaine 4 years ago
I would lend my ear to such puns, but I won't stalk you for them.
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A B C 4 years ago
Lol, now I'm imagining a flock of happy, completely round birds rolling by in the background
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lara 4 years ago
Thankgawd it collapsed instead of exploding. It's a mess, but an explosion would have been devastating.
#15
A Functioning Dutch Windmill From 1848 Burned Down
Demi Zwaan 4 years ago
That’s close to my hometown. I pass it every day. The structure itself was saved, because the burning reed fell off, so it didn’t burn much, and they rebuild it. In fact, they just readded the top last wee and are almost done now.
#16
April 20, 2010: The Oil Rig Deep Water Horizon Suffered A Catastrophic Blowout
Diana Eriksson 4 years ago
I thought BP meant Bored Panda and was really confused for a second haha
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Dave P 4 years ago
Interestingly the reason why they were drilling there is the safer ocean areas to drill they were denied access to by the US govt who gave them permits for this spot. Then the US govt gave them exemptions to certain safety standards because it was the only way to get the tax revenue because BP said they wouldnt drill otherwise. On top of that, Inspectors were assigned to specific companies and were allowed to take gifts, which led to many of them being bribed as well. This was just as much the fault of government as it was BP
Music Mania 4 years ago
The movie is also full of "artistic interpretation" just so you are aware. I work for one of the company's tasked with finding out WTF happened and tracking the history of events... suffice it to say we all were disappointed with the film and how much they got wrong.
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HoneyBun Arts 4 years ago
Hey this happened on my birthday! Wow my birthday is just bad luck after bad luck 😬
Even though the group’s title “Catastrophic Failure” suggests that some very unsettling content is shared there, the subreddit’s rules are strict to make sure the posts don’t cross any lines. The group doesn’t allow submissions that depict people visibly being seriously injured: “you must apply the 'Visible Injuries' flair to your post and tag it 'NSFW.'”
Moreover, “If a submission depicts a situation where people were killed, but those people are not directly visible, you must apply the 'Fatalities' flair to your post (e.g. the Hindenburg Disaster, or a plane crash).”
#17
In Pittsburgh. Sinkhole Eats Bus. No One Seriously Hurt
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
Well the earth gets hungry too! After all we remove from her!
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FABULOUS1 4 years ago
This looks like someone made a huge error during construction. Sinks holes usually dont open perfectly square like this one appears.
Rainy Day Wolf 4 years ago
the sinkhole itself it's probably round-ish but the pavement is placed in blocks
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All these sinkholes... Koyaanisqatsi... That's what we get when we pump hundreds of billions of litres of ground water out of the ground, dig deep into the ground for riches and treasures. ...
Anna Tribe 3 years ago
So, did Pittsburgh have to pay all medical expenses caused by the accident?
#18
August 4, 2020: Storage Before The Blast, Beirut
Nadine 4 years ago
The videos from the neighboring balconies still haunt me. So many lost lives and half a city destroyed in the name of greed and power for people who have zero alliance to their own country. Biggest blast in modern history, one year later, zero detained and zero accountabilities. Same poeple still run the country.
Corey Smith 4 years ago
It's hard to comprehend the size of the explosion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNDhIGR-83w
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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
When this happened people in my country donated €5 million in a couple of days. I said at that time that Beirut would gain 5 new millionaires but no one else would get anything out of the money. 1 year later, I'm right.
Caro Caro 4 years ago
SAD. Charity: poor people in rich countries giving money to rich people in poor countries.
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sofacushionfort 4 years ago
As a First-Worlder in the early 21sr C., I am in no position to gloat over the misfortunes of a country whose “leadership” is only concerned with taking and holding power, not exercising it responsibly with boring stuff like safety compliance.
lailyfnoor 4 years ago
Oh gosh! Even if the chemical was not explosive, it's gonna be an issue when they store any chemicals like that.
Katchen 4 years ago
I think even flour could explode if stored like that. Then again, flour is explosive.
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I remember getting a cold chill as the smoke plume rose - it looked very much like a nucular blast.
Janet Graham 3 years ago
There is no reason to store that stuff in such huge quantities at one location! That is one of the recognized errors.
Origami Chik3n 4 years ago
Just today i listened on the radio about current situation. Some of the politicians, who were in power during the explosion, got elected into parliament. Until they are sworn in, they do not have immunity. Judge tried to used this to call former ministers to testify. So one of them filed a complaint against the judge. While this complaint is being investigated, the case of the explosion cannot proceed.
#19
On May 20, 1976, During Structural Renovations, A Fire Burned Away The Montreal's Biosphère Transparent Acrylic Dome
Stannous Flouride 4 years ago
The US pavilion at Expo 67. Designed by R Buckminster Fuller. The largest geodesic dome ever built. So sad.
#20
$300k Video Wall Came Down In Vegas
BiLal Asif 4 years ago
Hey what's up with everyone why there is 1 at the end of every comment?
Hannah Edwards 4 years ago
People have been mentioning it, but I’m not seeing it.
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Jesus Christ 4 years ago
sorry for not speaking on the subject but everyones comment is ending with 1
Nancy Doughty 4 years ago
And the walls come tumblin' down and the walls come tumblin', tumblin' doooowwwn!
Speaking of catastrophes themselves, there have been far too many of them in the past and recent history. Since one of them, the Aloha Airlines flight 243 tragedy in the skies, over 30 years have already passed. The incident happened when cruising at 24,000 feet: an 18-foot section of the plane's roof suddenly ripped off. It caused an explosive decompression, creating a gaping hole in the fuselage and sucking a flight attendant out of the plane.
After the incident, a passenger reported that before boarding, she noticed a crack in the fuselage, but she did not report it prior to takeoff. Later, a National Transportation and Safety Board investigation suggested that the incident may have been caused by the plane's old age and poor maintenance. Moreover, Aloha Airlines short flights like this should have received check-ups twice as often as they had.
#21
Markham, Ontario, Plywood Used To Repair Building Proves Insufficient For The Task
Cold Contagious 4 years ago
Somebody is clearly a dumbass and didn't take nearly enough precautions. What if the side of the building had fallen over on someone 🤔; I shudder to think.
Load More Replies... Raven Sheridan 4 years ago (edited)
Well of course plywood didn't work! They needed duct tape!
Jay Broderick 4 years ago
I know nothing about building construction....but I do know this is incorrect!
#22
Tires From The United Flight That Declared Emergency During Takeoff. No Injuries
Nothanks L. Walk 4 years ago
Imagine the force required to grind THAT down to the axle... and still the strut held the plane up. This is why I love engineering. This is better than magic.
Stannous Flouride 4 years ago
The wheels appear to have been so hot that they melted their way into the tarmac.
Ellen Ranks 4 years ago
I was actually inside a plane that made an emergency stop. Tires caught on fire because of the friction. It was not a pleasurable experience.
Manny_Flawz 4 years ago
I saw a video where a tire blew out, took out the one next to it, then they caught fire. Pilots did not see this, so they retracted the gear like normal. The tires, which were still on fire, then burned through the cabin. The pilot tried to land but missed by 1 1/2 miles. 261 dead.
Catlady6000 4 years ago
I don't think this a reference to the flight your talking about. The heading says no injuries, and there is no sign of fire damage
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Incorrectly Installed Part LED To Gas Leak. One Fatality And 3 Injured After Explosion When Workers Were Sent To Investigate
An Co 4 years ago
Did they mean "LED" as in Light Emitting Diode", or did they mean led as in the path led to the pool?
Stephen Branley 4 years ago
The latter. No idea why they've capitalised it.
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Klas Klättermus 4 years ago
Is it just me who just woke up and is confused or is it terrible wording in the headline for this? I mean it sounds like it was a LED lamp/diode that was incorrectly installed. Then it sounds like 1 died and 3 was injured in the rescue team once they got there.
#24
Cable On A Window Washing Station Snaps And Hits A Power Line, Causing An Electrical Explosion. The Workers Were Saved By Their Emergency Harnesses
Kelly Rane 4 years ago
Gives me anxiety just looking at the pics. I am scared to death of heights, and adding the voltage in just makes it all the freaking peachier. NOPE!! 😳
Jo Johannsen 4 years ago
I never would have been up there in the first place, but did they ever go up again?
Another peculiar incident happened a year ago at a Swiss chocolate factory where, due to internal malfunction, it sent out a plume of cocoa 'snow.' Fine particles dusted the ground around Lindt & Spruengli factory in town of Olten after the ventilation system stopped functioning properly.
The area where the malfunction happened was in charge of making roasted cocoa nibs. These nibs are fragments of crushed cocoa beans, which are the basis of chocolate. Due to the strong winds, the powder spread around the factory, covering it in fine cocoa dust.
#25
Container Ship ‘One Apus’ Arriving In Japan After Losing Over 1800 Containers Whilst Crossing The Pacific Bound For California
Legen ( wait for it ) dary 4 years ago
I wonder how much things were there inside and how this affects the ocean for generations and generations.
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infinite upvote 4 years ago (edited)
So that's what happened to all the crap I ordered from aliexpress that never showed up
Nancy Doughty 4 years ago
Just how deep is all the crap that's been dumped on the ocean/sea floors?
Legen ( wait for it ) dary 4 years ago
wonder how much things were there inside and how this affects the ocean for generations and generations.
#26
Drone View Of Indonesia's Largest Oil Refinery Explosion In Indramayu
Catherine Watts 4 years ago
Yes, and my not recycling one styrofoam container is what's killing the planet...
Ozzie Ogawa 4 years ago
The locals have warned the authorities at least a week before the disaster but the authorities ignored it.
Just Your Regular Avocado 4 years ago
These images just make me so disgusted at how we've treated our planet.
OnlyMyOpinion 4 years ago
This will delete all the carbon reduction efforts of every individual combined.
Rainy Day Wolf 4 years ago
well look at it this way: every carbon emission we don't reduce just adds to the problem... even if it's minimum against the murderers of our world...
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Arecibo Radio Telescope After The Instrument Platform Collapsed. (11/30/2020)
Thomas Gray 4 years ago
I'm glad I got to see it a few years before this happened.
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Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
Good question. Maybe widen your horizon of news-sites a little?
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#28
Fireworks Store Bursts Into Flames At The Market In Rostov-On-Don, Russia, On The 6th Of December, 2020
Arieke 4 years ago
Something similar happened in the Netherlands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enschede_fireworks_disaster
Nope IWont 4 years ago
Los Angeles as well. The worst part was it was the bomb squad they set them off after miscalculating the strength of their containment vehicle. https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/lapd-bomb-squad-south-la-fireworks-explosion-cause-atf-report/2691869/
Load More Replies... Ripley Dog 4 years ago
That's why fireworks factories should have thick walls and a flimsy roof. Try to channel it up not out.
Rainy Day Wolf 4 years ago
This happens several times a year here in Mexico in a town called Tultepec, the town makes fireworks in the most unsafe way possible, many deaths each year... my people can't seem to understand, not the producers nor the customers... google "Tultepec explosion" and you'll see what I mean...
A year ago, a giant whale sculpture became a national hero in The Netherlands for stopping a train that overran the tracks. Luckily, the driver of the train in Rotterdam city escaped serious injury as the train crashed through barriers at the final station of De Akkers in Spijkenisse, near the Dutch port city of Rotterdam. The accident occurred on a raised platform, ten meters (30 feet) off the ground, where the carriage could have easily plummeted into the water below.
Maarten Struijs, the architect who designed the whale sculpture, expressed his astonishment and relief that the structure had played a life-saving role. “I'm surprised it's so strong," he told a Dutch news outlet. "If plastic has been standing for 20 years, you don't expect it to hold a metro carriage."
#29
July, 2014: Brand New Boeing 737 Fuselages Wrecked In A Train Derailment, Montana
Ara 4 years ago
Each year fuselages return from the Pacific Ocean to their spawning grounds. Sadly, many don’t survive.
Mandy Renn 4 years ago
And guess whose voice I read that in? ( In my head of course)
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Thomas Gray 4 years ago
"The first amphibious fuselages climbed out of the water about 350 million years ago..."
Sunshine Sunshine 4 years ago
The scale makes this so abstract for me. Like it's pens in a puddle or something
Suzanne Clark 4 years ago
They climb out of the primal brew and then develop their wings once they are on land...sometime later they develolp their individual colors. (yes, I am joking).
When it comes to the term “catastrophic failure” itself, it refers to a sudden and total failure from which recovery is impossible. Catastrophic failures often lead to cascading system failure. These failures are usually investigated with the methods of forensic engineering. It aims to isolate the cause or causes of failure.
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Failed Rocket Launch
Kenzi Darwish 4 years ago
I'm so sorry but why does this look so FUNNY, everyone else is so serious in the comments but all I can think is how funny this look
Madzdad the bard 4 years ago
A single switch was installed upside down that caused the rocket not to know up from down.
Alexandru Bucur 4 years ago
Accelerometer. And the tech had to hammer it in in order to fit the wrong way round.
Load More Replies... jevais 4 years ago
Stop sending things into space, why pollute everything, this planet was not enough to ruin? Governments and some big rich boys who spent billions to go to space. Very selfish and egocentric bastards that could do so much for humanity and for ecology with billions spent for nothing!
J. F. 4 years ago (edited)
Despite the rich people's d*** length contest it can actually help the planet. Satellites can be used for reducing fertilizer useage by showing areas where they are necessary and where not. Or the state of forests. The GPS system benefits a lot of emergency services and enviromental causes, too.
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CHRISTOPHER BRIDGER 4 years ago
the explosion is likley range saftey, hopefully those srb's got blown up...
Alexandru Bucur 4 years ago
It's a Proton. It has no SRBs. What you see there looking like the clustered SRBs of a Delta are actually the stage one liquid fueled engines clustered around the stage one tank in the middle. Also, it uses hypergolic fuels, namely Unsymmetrical Dimethylhydrazine and Nitrogen tetroxide, which are a lot more toxic and dangerous than mere SRBs. Oh, and since they're Russians, they don't use any flight termination system, they just let the rocket impact the ground, since they launch from such remote areas. In this case, the rocket disintegrated due to aerodynamic forces before it impacted.
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10 Years Ago - A 9.0 Magnitude Underwater Earthquake Instigated The 2nd Worst Nuclear Disaster In History - The Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown - March 11th, 2011
Jo Choto 4 years ago
I just think about all the older workers who instantly volunteered to go in and control the complete overload. Knowing that they would quickly die from radiation poisoning. They determined that they had lived more of their lives, and they should do whatever necessary to protect the younger workers and all the millions of people that would be affected by a full scale nuclear meltdown. These men were just ordinary blokes, everyday workers. Nobody ever mentions their heroism or sacrifice. They all died.
Jo Morris 4 years ago
The heading is about this being the 2nd worst nuclear disaster in history. Nothing to do with natural disasters like the tsunamis. They would be on a different list.
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Paweł Duda 4 years ago
More like the first. Chernobyl is just more legendary because of the secret in first days of the disaster.
Joey Marlin 4 years ago
There were 31 immediate deaths and an estimated 4,000 premature deaths from the effects of the radiation leak at Chernobyl. Fukushima, the meltdown directly resulted in the deaths of two people. 2014 report by the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation and World Health Organization projected no increase in miscarriages, stillbirths or physical and mental disorders in babies born after the accident at Fukushima. Both are level 7s.
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Catastrophic Driveline Failure 700' Up. I Avoided Most Of The Wires But Caught Two Small Utility Lines Right Before We Set Down. I Broke 2 Ribs, Passengers Were Unharmed. (Oc)
Dónal Ó Murchadha 4 years ago
2 broken ribs!? great landing! I mean, forgive the morbidity, but helicopters coming down usually result in a whole lot worse. so lucky!
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Klas Klättermus 4 years ago
An excellent pilot wouldn't take off in an aircraft that breaks. They would know their s**t and make sure it is all good before take off
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Toner Explosion
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Grain Bins In Iowa, USA After 80+ Mph(128+ Kmh) Winds. 2020
lara 4 years ago
It was explained to me that grain storage silos are built with "light" materials to reduce the chances of huge "shrapnel" explosions when grain silos blow up. Silos, if built out of "harder" materials will, generally, blow UP, like a cannon shooting into the air. Thus a huge dispersal of shrapnel. Explosions in metal silos will collapse the silo. Or at least that's what an engineer told me.
lazy panda 4 years ago
I've seen this happen several times after strong storms and it's terrifying.
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Pictures From The Suez Canal Authority On The Efforts To Dislodge The Ever Given, 25/03/2021
over it already 4 years ago
I was thinking the same - only 6 months ago? That 6 months has taken forever!
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Lynn Morello 4 years ago
Why does everyone keep saying EVER GIVEN, when it clearly reads EVER GREEN.?
Corey Smith 4 years ago
Evergreen is the shipping company. Ever Given is the name of the ship.
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Stucked Bulk Carrier Ship Wakashio Spilling Oil On The Coast Of Mauricius, 7.8.2020
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In 1945, A B-25 Bomber Got Lost In A Patch Of Fog And Crash Into The 79th Floor Of The Empire State Building. Fourteen People Passed Away In The Incident
Kelly Rane 4 years ago
I really want to know how they can stand there like that without wanting to wee their Underoos? One slip and out you go, and just short of a red cape and a big S on your chest... I'm thinking 79 floors of gravity will work.
Valisbourne Spiritforge 4 years ago
Going to guess the bomber wasn't carrying bombs and was probably not full up on fuel, unlike the 767 which had just taken off and WAS full of fuel. Not sure, this is the first I've heard of the incident.
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Sewer Main Exploding Drenches A Grandma And Floods A Street
Mestre_atg 4 years ago
You really don't know how modern media news works, do you? This is how we nowadays receive news, without facts checking, lots of drama in the headline, focus on the least important but most emotional impacting part of the news to grab readers. Welcome to 21st century
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Kelly Rane 4 years ago
Run as if your life "Depends" on it Granny!!! Get it "Depends" on it? Ok... I'll quit while my 💩 don't stink. 😂 I bet that was a 💩Y smelling neighborhood after that POO volcano.
#39
Residential Building Is Burning In Milan (29 Aug)
ButterScot 4 years ago
I think this apartment had the same issue as the Grenfell apartment fire in London. (Buildings cladding had a void space that allowed air in and the fire to spread)
Catlady6000 4 years ago
I'm surprised the Grenfell hasn't appeared on this list yet
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Us/Mex Border Wall Section Collapses - Hurricane Hanna - 26 July 2020
Thomas Gray 4 years ago
A wall in the Rio Grande Valley that can't even withstand a hurricane. Great job, Donald!
Dale 4 years ago
Actually if you do just a quick fact check this is a wall that was currently under construction (see the workers) and not during hurricane Hanna but a high wind event it wasn't structurally sound bc it was still under construction
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Aftermath Of The Collapse Of I-35 W In Minneapolis Mn (August 2, 2007)
Gin Marie 4 years ago
Yeah, you can thank Repubs for NOT caring. Unless it's tax cuts for their rich crook friends.
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Jo Choto 4 years ago
Is it me, or is cost-cutting resulting in more and more large infrastructures collapsing around the world?
Joe Reaves 4 years ago
It's cost cutting over the last few decades not just now, it's just that the hens are finally coming home to roost. The US has some very bad stats on the safety of their bridges but they're not the only country by far. The most recent big one was in Italy and for the same reason - basically hadn't been regularly maintained over decades. I think they were actually fixing that one at the time it collapsed, as they may have been in Minneapolis too, but if your bridge is on the verge of collapse and you add heavy construction vehicles and vibrating equipment to the equation without also closing it and adding extra support, boom, no more bridge.
Load More Replies... Kinslee the witches apprentice 4 years ago
Everyone on the otger bridge: :() what just happened
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July 8, 2019. A Truckload Of Apples Is Now Evenly Distributed On The Pavement
#43
May 2021, The Bridge On Interstate I-40 In Memphis, Tn, USA
Watching 4 years ago
So many of our bridges are like this. Our roads are horrible. I hope to God Joe Biden's infrastructure bill helps to fix all this.
Robert Beveridge 4 years ago
Isn't Tennessee one of the states that doesn't want to pass it?
Load More Replies... Downunderdude 4 years ago
Haven't you heard of gaffer tape and builder's bog? Fix that in a jiffy!
Bianca Saville 4 years ago
That's not old for a bridge. We have bridges built in the 1200s in Britain.
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The Moment A Fuel Tanker Drifts Into The Median And Explodes On I-75 In Troy Mi. The Fire Raged For Over 2 Hours, And I-75 Is Shut Down Indefinitely. The Driver Survived. July 12, 2021
Tami 4 years ago
Too many inexperienced truck drivers out there and too many tight delivery schedules.
Cold Contagious 4 years ago
I wondered why the car was so close behind him 🤔
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Under Construction Hard Rock Hotel In New Orleans Collapsed. Was Due To Open Next Month
Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
Ugh, yes - imagine that happening while the building was full of people celebrating the grand opening. It would have been carnage. :(
Load More Replies... Kevin Camp 4 years ago
When you hire the lowest bidder to build a high rise building on soggy soft ground, probably the same folks who get hired to build high rises in Miami on the same kind of ground.
Memere 4 years ago
This happened in October of 2019. They were finally able to get the bodies of 2 of the men who died out in August of 2020, almost a year later. And there was no way the hotel was due to be open in a month, they didn't even have the outside cladding on the building. This happened because of corrupt contractors & city inspectors colluding to use substandard materials & shortcutting standard construction methods.
Memere 4 years ago
No, there was no way it would have been open a month later, they didn't even have the outside done, no exterior doors/windows, etc. My son lives there & I had visited a month or so before & saw it before the collapse.
Load More Replies... Thomas Gray 4 years ago
Did they ever pull the skeletons of the dead construction workers out of it?
#46
Another Angle Of The Gas Station Explosion In Volgograd
Vorknkx 4 years ago
BTW, Volgograd is the present-day name of the legendary Stalingrad, which was a major turning point in the Second World War.
lara 4 years ago
Volgograd was ALWAYS the name of the city until the Great Murderer renamed it. The old Soviet Union has some of the most impressive cemeteries you have ever had lunch in.
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Train Derailment In Illinois
Eric Lafleur 3 years ago
We had one in 2013. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac-M%C3%A9gantic_rail_disaster
#48
Fire Tornado
The base of the “fire tornado” was 1,000 feet wide — larger than three football fields — and was fueled by winds gusting to 165 mph, according to the Cal Fire report. It exploded 7.5 miles into the air, ripping roofs off homes and toppling power lines.
Asi Bassey 4 years ago
I still don’t get how football fields have become a unit for understanding large sizes or lengths
Paula Marowsky 4 years ago
because nobody outside US understand feet...although maybe meters would be better, still footbal field is easier to undestand
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Parked Several Thousand Hot Rental Cars On A Dry Grass Overflow Lot In South Florida
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
That's one insurance company regretting a seemingly lucrative contract.
#50
Highway Sign Falls On Car (2018)
BigOrangeTractor 4 years ago (edited)
Yep, just one in the car and she survived with some neck injuries. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-08/tullamarine-freeway-sign-falls-and-crushes-car/10700470 if you need the whole dealy.
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#51
Commander George C Duncan Is Pulled Out Alive From The Cockpit Of His Grumman F9f Panther After Crashing During An Attempted Landing On Uss Midway On July 23rd 1951
#52
Static Charge Causes Massive Fire In Back Of Box Truck
Izzy Curer 4 years ago
Can someone explain how the guy's shirt looks black in the first picture, but then looks white in the 2nd one? I'm trying to understand what's happening. I take it the pictures are 1 minute apart?
M O'Connell 4 years ago
Click the reddit link and watch the original video. There were two men in the truck, the one in the black shirt stepped off first, and the one stacking the bundles (in the gray jacked) stepped off second. The static discharge from his shoe grounding on the deck of the truck sparked the fire.
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08/10/2020 - Arecibo Observatory, One Of The Largest Single-Aperture Radio Telescopes In The World, Has Suffered Extensive Damage After An Auxiliary Cable Snapped And Crashed Through The Telescope’s Reflector Dish
Jyri Hakola 4 years ago
Nope That was wrecked in the James Bond movie Goldeneye where it yet again killed poor Sean Bean. Yes.. that telescope have acted as a prop in various movies ;)
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Lotus Flower 4 years ago
Such a loss. It was in many movies but more importantly the dish was legendary and it’s loss has proudly affected the region and also planetary research..
#54
Water Lines Are Freezing And Bursting In Texas During Record Low Temperatures - February 2021
Watching 4 years ago
Right as Ted Cruz fled the state! 155 people died, but hope Cancun was nice. Republicans are killers.
Katinka Min 4 years ago
Fled and left his poodle alone in an icecold house. We do have some truly shitty politiciasn in my country, but Americans really take the cake.
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(Aug 12, 2019) Tesla Model 3 Crashes Into Parked Truck. Shortly After, Car Explodes Twice
Paweł Duda 4 years ago
Nothing suprising in Li_ion batteries being flammable as hell. It just takes them (18650) more to start fire than gasoline, but enough damage will release hell.
Load More Replies... Joey Marlin 4 years ago
You are supposed to be ready to take over immediately but the idea that you can trust humans to be in that ready state permanently when they already lose concentration on cars that require full time seems a bit unrealistic. Still probably be safer ultimately as speed, distance from other cars will all be automatic (when we are all driving them). Though if the systems go down (as they do) brown trousers time.
Load More Replies... J Adams 4 years ago
The problem is a very small amount of fire crews are equipped with the necessary tools to put out an electrical fire, for obvious reasons you can’t just use the hose and spray water on it. If you get trapped in an electric car fire the your going to die same accident in a standard car there’s a chance you could be saved
M O'Connell 4 years ago
Gasoline powered cars catch fire so frequently that it's not news at all.
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#56
Spacex’s Falcon 9 Rocket (Intentionally) Blows Up In The Skies Over Cape Canaveral During Successful Abort Test
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Should have done the same with the rocket that had Bezos on board.
Aesthetically Pleasing Rat 4 years ago
Such a waste of money and so bad for the environment...
#57
Huge Fire At A Huawei Research Facility In China, September 25, 2020
#58
Mega Church Burning Caught Fire. Luckily There Were 0 Casualties
Julia Atkinson 4 years ago
I'm glad there were no casualties, but a burning monument to greed and ignorance isn't much of a catastrophe
Joseph OReilly 4 years ago
I remember learning about the first churches in middle School history and it was one of the very few things that happened that year that genuinely shocked me. Exploiting people and guilt tripping those who don't know better into dumping all their money into something
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cybermerlin2000 4 years ago
OK, can we try this with Westboro Baptist Church with a full congregation?
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
Redirect the BNSF into their building and give 'em the La Ciotat Special.
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Michelle Otto 4 years ago
Those mega-church TV evangelicals are heathens anyway. God's way of smiting those who make a mockery of Christianity, they're just making us all look bad.
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Medical Helicopter Experiences A Malfunction And Crashes While Landing On A Los Angeles Hospital Rooftop. Wreckage Missed The Roof’s Edge By About 15 Feet, And All Aboard Survived
#61
Machine Malfunctions Spraying Molten Metal Everywhere (Unknown Date)
Gabriel 4 years ago
When dealing with molten metal there's nothing that safety gear will do to protect you, no safety gear will withstand 1500+ degrees
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Molten Silly String
Cactus McCoy 4 years ago
Looks like steel production. The red hot steel runs along machiery to "string it out" for bringing it into shape for rods, bars or similar. If it loses track and jumps out of the bearings it will go anywhere due to production speed.
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Douglas Turner 4 years ago (edited)
Known as a cobble, this is a not-uncommon occurrence in hot mill fabrication. There are some pretty cool videos on Youtube. Search for steel mill cobble. It's fun. But I don't know how it got up to the ceiling.
#64
Ammonia Leak Near Chicago
M O'Connell 4 years ago
This was very near where I live. Ammonia is a horrific thing to have come in contact with human tissue.
#65
Captain Brian Bews Bails At The Last Moment After A Stuck Piston Causes His Cf-18 Hornet To Crash
ProductofNZ 4 years ago
The piston was not in the engine itself. It's called a ratio boost piston. Its part of the fuel system that feeds the engine. Because of the malfunction, one engine was not getting enough fuel and was at idle speed. Because of the misbalance between the two engines, it caused the aeroplane to become uncontrollable.
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Catlady6000 4 years ago
Am I the only one who tried to say Captain Brian Bews Bails three times fast?
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Truck Puts Too Much Torque Into Its Engine, Causing It To Explode Out Of The Frame
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
This was during one of the senseless and useless events where vehicles with powerful engines are polluting the environment. As you can see from the black smoke coming from the exhaust.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
While your statement is technically correct, it is important to note that the environmental impact of recreational fossil fuel use pales in comparison to the impact of everyday uses.
Load More Replies... Nope IWont 4 years ago
"truck puts too much torque into its engine" That sentence hurts my brain.
#67
In Cancun During A Gender Reveal Party
Airis Malfoy 4 years ago
Ok gender reveal what? i get. you can buy 3 color balloons. a pink one, a blue one, and some other color. make sure that your pink or blue balloon is inside the other color, and just pop it, and announce whatever color it came! how bad can it be?
Vorknkx 4 years ago
I still find these parties weird. What happened to picking up the phone and just telling people what the baby's gender is?
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V V 4 years ago
Imagine growing up as one of the kids whose parent caused trauma & damage just because those parents were too egotistical to send an email or post on Facebook.
Jayne Kyra 4 years ago (edited)
2 people died. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9422023/Two-killed-Cessna-air-taxi-nosedives-crashes-lagoon-Cancun.html
Joanna Carmel 4 years ago
Gender reveals are best done when the child can speak for themselves.
jammer 4 years ago
Or they were hoping for a boy and it was a girl? Or something, gender reveal parties don’t make much sense.
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David Gripon 4 years ago
Oh man, I'm going to get crucified for saying this, but was that to reveal Down's Syndrome? I'm so sorry for that one...
#68
Concrete Retaining Wall Failure Allows A Hill Landslide
#69
Palestinian Apartment Building Collapses After Israeli Airstrikes
Esther Leah Lev 4 years ago
Ummm… do you know anything about their methods? Yes, they purposely fire rockets from and operate out of civilian buildings and areas and use them as human shields. Look it up before trying ineffective sarcasm…
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#70
This Glass Vacuum Lift Failing Spectacularly
Robert Bailey 4 years ago
Took me a second to decipher that title. I was thinking who would build a vacuum lift out of glass.
#71
Petroleum Products In The Water System After The Accident At The Chpp-3 In Norilsk, Russia
Rainy Day Wolf 4 years ago
If only it was the only one... https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/47973/norilsk-oil-spill-disaster-russia-accident-risk-map/
#72
An Explosion At The Ufaorgsintez Plant In Ufa, Russia. Two Containers With Methane Hydrogen Are Burning
Anna Tribe 3 years ago
So that's how they managed the early sunrise on the Truman Show!
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#73
Container Ship Runs Ground With Precious Construction Cargo Aug 2019
#74
Steel Mill Malfunction Leads To Gallons Of Molten Metal Being Pouted All Over The Factory Floor
#75
A Kalibr Cruise Missile Fired By Russian Destroyer Marshal Shaposhnikov Malfunctions Mid Launch And Crashes Into The Sea (April 2021)
#76
Windows Shattering In A Building A Mile Away From The Chemical Factory That Exploded In China
#77
Uss Bonnehome Richard On Fire In San Diego
#78
Firework Balloon Disaster In Myanmar
#79
Firefighters Attempt To Put Out A Magnesium Fire
ButterScot 4 years ago
The way we were taught to deal with a magnesium fire is to either let if burn and protect other buildings or keep pouring water on it.
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Fxnglhl 4 years ago
i'm sure we learned in chemistry at least at some point that magnesium reacts very violently with water?
Pixie 4 years ago
Of course they do, they make a really nice bright light when mixed (i think I had a chemistry school book with a picture of a diver carrying a magnesium torch, so it can it really can be usefull if you know what you are doing. But yeah, doesn't look like they did their chemistry)
Load More Replies... jammer 4 years ago
Damn, it sure looks like they’re using water for that. I’m mistaken, right? Right?!?
Dónal Ó Murchadha 4 years ago
I imagine they're using water to stop adjacent building from igniting. Magnesium fires need to be smothered and nobody is smothering that thing. i imagine they just let it burn out!?
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#80
Russian Mi-14 Struggles During A Water Takeoff And Ends Up Shattering Its Rotors
Sky Render 4 years ago (edited)
That's how most Kerbal Space Program helicopter designs end up "working".
#81
Ferry Crashes Into A Loading Dock In Barcelona Causing A Fire
#82
Excavator Being Lifted Into Tunnel Shaft In Hong Kong Falls. 10/14/2020
Victor Botha 4 years ago
Being lifted or being lowered?? You lift something out of or you lower something into
#84
2021 March 22 This Swimming Pool Collapsed In Brazil, Flooding The Parking Lot
Sergy Yeltsen 4 years ago
They're lucky it was just the pool. Champlain Towers showed how bad it can get.
#85
Burning Warehouse Explodes, Sending A Propane Tank Flying Through The Air
Missy Moo Moo 4 years ago
They are called "bleve". A pressure vessel is fine when it's full and on fire, it's when it is empty with no pressure keeping the fire outside of the vessel that there is a problem
smugdruggler 4 years ago
Yeah. Bleve is an acronym for Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapour Explosion.
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Chemical Factory In Istanbul Explodes And Catches Fire, Launching A Metal Tank Into The Air 9/19/2019
#87
Unsecured Load On Highway 30
M O'Connell 4 years ago
This appears to be a "double width" modular structure, they are usually moved one half at a time. I wonder what compelled them to move the thing while assembled.
smugdruggler 4 years ago
Probably because it was cheaper. It's always about the money.
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#88
An Explosion Occurred At The Tianjiayi Chemical Production Facility In Yancheng China
Kelly Rane 4 years ago
Ok, who left their popcorn to burn in the microwave again?? On a serious note: I hope no one was hurt or killed in this fire cause it looks huge!! 😳
ScarlettofHydraIsland 4 years ago
I think there’s a video of it somewhere on YouTube, but yeah, a bunch of workers were killed sadly
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Explosion In Henan Aluminum Factory After Heavy Flooding 20/7/2021
#90
A Cross-Sea Bridge Collapsed, 2019-10-01 In Yilan, Taiwan
Dónal Ó Murchadha 4 years ago
That truck!!!! I hope the driver survived. How luck is that if they did.
#91
The Ontario Police And Fire Department In California Are Investigating A Large Explosion(03-16-2021)
#92
Motor Yacht Go Wrecks Sint Maarten Yacht Club’s Dock. St. Maarten - 24/02/2021
Alexandru Bucur 4 years ago
And the best bit is they did it twice! They hit the dock, reversed, then went forward again and this time trashed it completely. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAmZ_HbVvzM
InfectedVoice 4 years ago
I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure it doesn't, you just go into neutral and slow down, put any sails down and lower anchor.
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Super Yacht Crash 13th March 2020
M O'Connell 4 years ago
This was a collision between racing boats at the Superyacht Challenge, in Antigua.
Luther von Wolfen 4 years ago
Fewer chemical plant explosions and more yacht collisions, please.
#94
A Fire Broke Out At A Polysilicon Plant In Xinjiang, China
Spittnimage 4 years ago
Four or five other explosions in China in this thread. Get your sh!t together China!
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago (edited)
It can't. Too busy wrecking the ecosystem every way possible.
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Structural Failure Arecibo Telescope Collapse 12/1/2020
#96
Pedestrian Bridge Collapse In Washington Dc 6/23/2021
#97
A Live Bomb Detonates On An Us Aircraft Carrier After Accidentally Being Dropped From An Aircraft, Killing The Cameraman (1953)
#98
Fixing The Old Water Tower Didn't Go Well. Russia, Feb'21
#99
Truck Crashed Into Another Truck Carrying Loads Of Paint On The Highway
Skara Brae 4 years ago
I'd actually watch a Transformers movie if scenes like this were in it.
#100
050220 Trailer Driver Misjudged It's Height, Crashed In To A 45 Years Old Iconic Pedestrian Bridge In Penang, Malaysia. The Bridge Is Beyond Repair And Got Torn Down The Next Day. Local Government Suing The Transport Company
Houssem Hammami 4 years ago
my first reaction when I passed from there was: where the hell is the bridge, it's a shame that it got destroyed, the place looks empty now
#101
Space X's Mk1 Starship Fails Its Nitrogen Pressure Test
M O'Connell 4 years ago
They weren't even really testing the engineering so much as the precision of the manufacturing/assembly technique.
Load More Replies... Joseph OReilly 4 years ago
If I remember correctly, this test was designed to basically pump up the tank until it exploded to see what it could handle. No catastrophic failure here, just a really, really extreme stress test
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What do you think ?
Colin L 4 years ago
This got me thinking of the great molasses flood (Boston, 1919). A giant wave of hot molasses killed 21 people and injured 120 others.
Claire Cotts 4 years ago
you beat me to it, I was thinking of exactly the same thing. The name makes it seem comical, but it was truly terrible
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Mark Wilson 4 years ago
Why do all the comments end in 1? Is this a meme I haven't heard of? A database glitch?
lailyfnoor 4 years ago
Sometimes accident can not be avoided. But we must prepare to prevent it to happen. Most of the time it happens because of poor operation/maintenance and bad safety practice.
Ren Karlej 4 years ago
Apart from natural disasters these things are always due to poor operation/maintenance and bad safety practice.
Load More Replies... Ben Steinberg 4 years ago
I"m surprised there wasn't a picture of the Nimitz freeway collapse in California after the the '89 Loma Prieta earthquake. That was truly a chilling sight...
Becca Claire 3 years ago
Anyone else thinking the Chernobyl disaster should have been on this list ?
Cristian Mihalache 4 years ago
They forgot to add the Morandi bridge catastrophe in Genoa, Italy.
Bob Belcher 4 years ago
What about the Metrodome Collapse or the one in Australia that was full of people when it collapsed. How about all the Rollercoaster accidents.
Colin L 4 years ago
This got me thinking of the great molasses flood (Boston, 1919). A giant wave of hot molasses killed 21 people and injured 120 others.
Claire Cotts 4 years ago
you beat me to it, I was thinking of exactly the same thing. The name makes it seem comical, but it was truly terrible
Load More Replies... Mark Wilson 4 years ago
Why do all the comments end in 1? Is this a meme I haven't heard of? A database glitch?
lailyfnoor 4 years ago
Sometimes accident can not be avoided. But we must prepare to prevent it to happen. Most of the time it happens because of poor operation/maintenance and bad safety practice.
Ren Karlej 4 years ago
Apart from natural disasters these things are always due to poor operation/maintenance and bad safety practice.
Load More Replies... Ben Steinberg 4 years ago
I"m surprised there wasn't a picture of the Nimitz freeway collapse in California after the the '89 Loma Prieta earthquake. That was truly a chilling sight...
Becca Claire 3 years ago
Anyone else thinking the Chernobyl disaster should have been on this list ?
Cristian Mihalache 4 years ago
They forgot to add the Morandi bridge catastrophe in Genoa, Italy.
Bob Belcher 4 years ago
What about the Metrodome Collapse or the one in Australia that was full of people when it collapsed. How about all the Rollercoaster accidents.
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