Planes, Trains and Auto Uh Ohs
An imperfect welded joint was blamed for the collapse while people watched a clown float down the river in a bathtub.
What is the Yarmouth Bridge?
This disaster involved a WW2 vehicle that was stretched and given a canopy trapping passengers when a derecho flooded it.
What is the Branson Missouri Duck Boat Disaster?
Corrosion of copper from salt caused this failure but not before the Queen and President Buchanan exchanging a message.
What is the TransAtlantic Cable?
A Typhoon dropped 7 inches of rain in one hour over the Hunan Provence allowing this to give way.
What is the Banqiao Dam?
OSHA determined men at this park were shocked by a surge in an aerator pump that did not have a functioning ground-fault circuit interrupter.
What is Kings Island?
This vehicle's ball bearing reached an ambient temperature 253 degrees above its threshold.
What is the East Palestine Ohio Railroad Disaster?
Extraordinarily heavy detonation followed with a very large cloud of smoke (far above the front funnel). A second explosion must have followed that of the torpedo!
What is the Lusitania?
3 crew members lost their lives on the launch pad which was the beginning of several disasters in this program.
What was the Apollo Missions?
A lack of bracing on supports reduced the load the roof could carry. Bracing was placed every 30 ft. rather than every 15 ft.
What is the Hartford Arena?
The first space station fell out of orbit creating what looked like an intense meteor shower as it entered the atmosphere.
The name of the software system that crashed 2 737 Max.
What is the MCAS?
Referred to as the Ugly Ducklings, a brittle fracture kept one of these ships from leaving port.
What are the Liberty Ships?
Flooding from a tsumami drowned out the diesel generators causing pressure to rise and a hydrogen explosion.
What is Fukushima Nuclear Disaster?
What is the Salton Sea?
The lift chain on this ride prematurely released sending cars backward down the hill and derailing.
Days after opening a panel disappeared and was thought to be stolen. Later it was discovered it disintegrated under the weight of automobiles.
What is the Solar Roadway?
Ignition of cotton balls from either a cigarette or sparks from machinery caught this wharf ablaze.
What is the Hoboken Dock Fire?
A software bug in the system gave patients a dose 125 times more than they should have received.
What is Therac - 25?
This 10 ft deep lake swallowed 11 barges, a tugboat, a dock, and a drilling platform when they drilled their way into a mine.
What is Lake Peigneur?
Located in Kings Mills this factory exploded when two trains carrying powder collided.
What is the Peter Cartridge Factory?
In a ground test in 1970, a cargo door blew out resulting in rapid pressurization causing the main cabin floor to collapse.
What is the DC -10?
The repeated stress and pressure loads experienced during dives may have caused this hull to weaken and develop cracks over time.
What is the Titan Submersible? (Ocean gate)
A lack of a sprinkler system and 83 building code violations had a fireball burst into a casino and out of the building.
What is the MGM Grand Hotel?
What is Deep Water Horizon?
While the main reactor in the original design could be destroyed by a torpedo fired into an external exhaust port, the main reactor in this new design could only be destroyed by direct blaster fire.
What is the Death Star?