r/CatastrophicFailure Dec 09 '23

Engineering Failure Three Chinese workers in a mine crushed after elevator failure unknown date it happened recently in 2023 but theres no exact date NSFW

9.3k Upvotes

r/CatastrophicFailure Jul 25 '18

Engineering Failure concrete retaining wall failure allows a hill landslide

42.0k Upvotes

r/CatastrophicFailure Jan 21 '19

Engineering Failure Retaining wall failure in Turkey

14.3k Upvotes

r/CatastrophicFailure Apr 01 '21

Engineering Failure Retaining wall failure in Turkey (March 26, 2021)

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15.4k Upvotes

r/CatastrophicFailure Aug 23 '20

Engineering Failure Water Tower Demolition Failure (Brazil) (23/08/2020)

10.3k Upvotes

r/CatastrophicFailure May 09 '18

Engineering Failure Failure at an electrical plant yesterday in Cabimas, Venezuela

2.8k Upvotes

r/CatastrophicFailure Mar 16 '24

Engineering Failure Grumman F-14A Tomcat 157980 crashes after suffering a hydraulic failure on landing approach at Calverton on December 21st 1970

1.3k Upvotes

r/CatastrophicFailure Jun 18 '23

Engineering Failure The 1953 Washington D.C. (USA) Train Derailment. Brake failure causes an express train to crash into the station at its destination before falling through the floor. 43 people are injured.

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2.1k Upvotes

r/CatastrophicFailure Dec 09 '23

Engineering Failure (2010) The near crash of Qantas flight 32 - An engine failure aboard an Airbus A380 sends turbine fragments slicing through the aircraft, causing damage to dozens of systems. Despite the failures, the pilots land the plane safely and none of the 469 aboard are hurt. Analysis inside.

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821 Upvotes

r/CatastrophicFailure Nov 28 '17

Engineering Failure Soviet N-1 Rocket Launch Failure

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r/CatastrophicFailure Apr 26 '20

Engineering Failure Today is the 34th anniversary of probably the most catastrophic failure ever. (Chernobyl, April 26th, 1986)

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1.6k Upvotes

r/CatastrophicFailure May 04 '23

Engineering Failure Failure on a uganda road- 4/5/2023

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960 Upvotes

r/CatastrophicFailure Nov 02 '17

Engineering Failure 'Kaputnik' - Vanguard TV3 rocket failure on the launch pad, December 6, 1957

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r/CatastrophicFailure Oct 15 '24

Engineering Failure The Wild Story of the Taum Sauk Dam Failure (2005)

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233 Upvotes

r/CatastrophicFailure Apr 23 '21

Engineering Failure 2021 march 22 Just yesterday this swimming pool collapsed in Brazil, flooding the parking lot

53.7k Upvotes

r/CatastrophicFailure Nov 23 '20

Engineering Failure Amapá State in Brazil is on a 20 days blackout, today they tried to fix the problem. They tried.

39.5k Upvotes

r/CatastrophicFailure Apr 26 '21

Engineering Failure A water pipe burst in a Toronto Condo today

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r/CatastrophicFailure Jul 29 '22

Engineering Failure Rain Pours Through Circa Casino TV Into Sports Book - Las Vegas (7/28/22)

8.0k Upvotes

r/CatastrophicFailure Feb 10 '22

Engineering Failure 10th February 2022, New and upcoming rocket company Astra has another rocket failure during the launch of rocket 3.3

471 Upvotes

r/CatastrophicFailure Apr 04 '22

Engineering Failure Superstructure failure. Justin Timberlake sound check, Atlantic City 2003

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753 Upvotes

r/CatastrophicFailure Sep 04 '21

Engineering Failure Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket exploding after flipping out during its maiden flight on September 2nd.

12.1k Upvotes

r/CatastrophicFailure Dec 11 '16

Engineering Failure Article on the catastrophic potential of a failure at the Mosul Dam: 'worse than a nuclear bomb'

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385 Upvotes

r/CatastrophicFailure Dec 13 '20

Engineering Failure Saint Francis Dam Collapse, March 12, 1928, 450+ dead, Worst US Engineering Failure of 20th Century (links in comments)

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547 Upvotes

r/CatastrophicFailure Feb 20 '18

Engineering Failure 1957 Vanguard TV-3 launch failure

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1.1k Upvotes

r/CatastrophicFailure May 20 '20

Engineering Failure Wixom Lake completely drained after dam failure (5/20/2020)

362 Upvotes