Things that Float or Don't
She carried 40,000 lbs of "lard" to the Royal Navy Weapons Testing Establishment when she was sunk by a U20.
What is the Lusitania?
A lack of lifeboats and small, thin gashes across the hull due to a large cluster of frozen dihydrogen monoxide caused this disaster.
What is the Titanic?
The Saale, Main and Bremen caught fire when this disaster went from a smoldered to a roaring blaze.
What is the Hoboken Dock Fire?
This ticking time bomb blew 200,000 miles from Earth when heat degraded the teflon insulation around wires near oxygen tank 2.
What are the Apollo Missions?
Fan disk failure due to a fatigue crack produced a catastrophic separation of the disk. This was not the only failure to occur on the most reliable transportation, cargo doors also blew out.
What are the DC-10 aircraft?
A fail safe, known as a blowout preventer, malfunctioned due to a pipe that bent under pressure allowing 5 million barrels of oil to spill for 87 days
What is Deepwater Horizon Disaster?
Torsional Flutter is the instability of a a harmonic vibration pattern that can grow in size. This along with a cable band that slipped allowed for this disaster to happen.
What is the Tacoma Narrows Bridge?
Removal of software interlocks created multiple software bugs on this device causing a single point of failure. The beam should have been a low dose was 125 times the regular dose.
What is Therac 25?
The O-ring failed when this was launched at 28 degrees F. The establishment was told not to launch below 53 F costing the lives of 7 crew members.
What is The Challenger Space Shuttle?
Due to failed pilot proficiency, ice, and miscommunication, this aircraft landed in the Potomac.
What is Florida Flight 90?
What is the Transatlantic Telegraph Cable?
A lack of sun, dust, and wear and tear from traffic deemed this too expensive and inefficient.
What are Solar Roadways
This disaster could have been averted by paying $192,000 for a sprinkler system.
What is the MGM Grand Hotel?
Not all disasters have explosions, some are just ridiculously expensive, like this one when they shaved the mirror a fiftieth of a human hair preventing clear pictures of space.
What is the Hubble Telescope
The fire was attributed to a discharge of atmospheric electricity in the vicinity of a hydrogen gas leak.
What is the Hindenburg?
Typhoon Nina stalled out over Hunan Provence releasing a 30 mph wave 30 feet high.
What is the Banquio Dam?
The tank was painted brown to match the liquid inside. The viscosity of fluid and the temperatures outside hampered escape in the disaster when the rivets cracks and the tank gave way.
What is the Great Molasses Flood?
A giant wall of water knocked out the power and generators allowing pressure to rise within. This resulted in a hydrogen explosion which blew the roof off.
What is Fukushima?
During the launch, a piece of insulating foam broke off and damaged a thermal tile. This allowed for hot atmospheric gases to enter the heat shield and break the craft apart on reentry.
What is the Columbia Space Shuttle?
This disaster happened when a piece of debris from a DC-10 caused a deformation in fuel tank. The crash killed 113 people.
What is the Air France Concorde?
The capsizing and sinking of this vessel was flooding of frontal compartments as the result of structural failure. She currently lies in 3 pieces 30 nautical miles off the coast of Virginia.
What is the SS Marine Electric?
A set of tie rods held these walkways together causing undue stress on the beams. This resulted in both walkways plunging into party goers below.
What is the Hyatt Regency Walkway?
Rumor has it the cow started it, but she was cleared in 1997 by the City Council for this disaster that devastated downtown and North of the city.
What is the Chicago Fire?
This disaster had multiple single point of failures including a tractor beam that could be disabled at any one of seven power couplings.
Two minutes into the flight this planes MCAS system activated causing the plane to take a nose dive.
What is Ethiopian Air Flight 302? Boeing 737 MAX 8 Lion Air Flight 610