Do you remember any catastrophic failure that was so huge that you couldn’t get it out of your system? Well, if you don’t, the subreddit Catastrophic Failure is here to show you some of such instances where people were frightened.
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Scroll down to get a reminder that we all have to be more careful to make sure such accidents won’t happen.
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.
May 7, 2021: Tourist Trapped 100m High On Chinese Glass Bridge After Floor Panels Blow Out
The View Of The Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse From Atop The Suspension Cabling, 1940
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
August 14, 2020: Chocolate Snows Down On Swiss Town Due To Factory Defect
Gas Leak Into Water Main Taiwan
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
2019: Cars Getting Transported On An Open Deck Catch On Fire After Salty Water Shorts Their Batteries
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
Red Wine Cistern Catastrophically Ruptures At Sicilian Winery
January 17, 2021: Final Seconds Of The Ukrainian Cargo Ship Before Breaks In Half And Sinks At Bartin Anchorage, Black Sea
December 19, 2019: Drill Bit After Taking Out Some Of London’s Internet
Boeing 777 Engine Failed At 13000 Feet. Landed Safely
$1,250,000 Worth Of Corn Spilled After Silo Collapse In New Carlisle, Ohio On Jan 28, 2018
A Functioning Dutch Windmill From 1848 Burned Down
April 20, 2010: The Oil Rig Deep Water Horizon Suffered A Catastrophic Blowout
August 4, 2020: Storage Before The Blast, Beirut
In Pittsburgh. Sinkhole Eats Bus. No One Seriously Hurt
On May 20, 1976, During Structural Renovations, A Fire Burned Away The Montreal’s Biosphère Transparent Acrylic Dome
$300k Video Wall Came Down In Vegas
Markham, Ontario, Plywood Used To Repair Building Proves Insufficient For The Task
Tires From The United Flight That Declared Emergency During Takeoff. No Injuries
Incorrectly Installed Part LED To Gas Leak. One Fatality And 3 Injured After Explosion When Workers Were Sent To Investigate
Cable On A Window Washing Station Snaps And Hits A Power Line, Causing An Electrical Explosion. The Workers Were Saved By Their Emergency Harnesses
Fireworks Store Bursts Into Flames At The Market In Rostov-On-Don, Russia, On The 6th Of December, 2020
Drone View Of Indonesia’s Largest Oil Refinery Explosion In Indramayu
Container Ship ‘One Apus’ Arriving In Japan After Losing Over 1800 Containers Whilst Crossing The Pacific Bound For California
Arecibo Radio Telescope After The Instrument Platform Collapsed. (11/30/2020)
July, 2014: Brand New Boeing 737 Fuselages Wrecked In A Train Derailment, Montana
Failed Rocket Launch
