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.
#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.
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#2 May 7, 2021: Tourist Trapped 100m High On Chinese Glass Bridge After Floor Panels Blow Out
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#3 The View Of The Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse From Atop The Suspension Cabling, 1940
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#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
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#5 August 14, 2020: Chocolate Snows Down On Swiss Town Due To Factory Defect
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#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
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#7 Gas Leak Into Water Main Taiwan
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#8 2019: Cars Getting Transported On An Open Deck Catch On Fire After Salty Water Shorts Their Batteries
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#9 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
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#10 Red Wine Cistern Catastrophically Ruptures At Sicilian Winery
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#11 January 17, 2021: Final Seconds Of The Ukrainian Cargo Ship Before Breaks In Half And Sinks At Bartin Anchorage, Black Sea
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#12 Boeing 777 Engine Failed At 13000 Feet. Landed Safely
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#13 December 19, 2019: Drill Bit After Taking Out Some Of London’s Internet
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#14 $1,250,000 Worth Of Corn Spilled After Silo Collapse In New Carlisle, Ohio On Jan 28, 2018
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#15 A Functioning Dutch Windmill From 1848 Burned Down
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#16 April 20, 2010: The Oil Rig Deep Water Horizon Suffered A Catastrophic Blowout
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#17 In Pittsburgh. Sinkhole Eats Bus. No One Seriously Hurt
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#18 August 4, 2020: Storage Before The Blast, Beirut
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#19 On May 20, 1976, During Structural Renovations, A Fire Burned Away The Montreal’s Biosphère Transparent Acrylic Dome
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#20 $300k Video Wall Came Down In Vegas
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#21 Markham, Ontario, Plywood Used To Repair Building Proves Insufficient For The Task
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#22 Tires From The United Flight That Declared Emergency During Takeoff. No Injuries
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#23 Incorrectly Installed Part LED To Gas Leak. One Fatality And 3 Injured After Explosion When Workers Were Sent To Investigate
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#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
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#25 Container Ship ‘One Apus’ Arriving In Japan After Losing Over 1800 Containers Whilst Crossing The Pacific Bound For California
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#26 Drone View Of Indonesia’s Largest Oil Refinery Explosion In Indramayu
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#27 Arecibo Radio Telescope After The Instrument Platform Collapsed. (11/30/2020)
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#28 Fireworks Store Bursts Into Flames At The Market In Rostov-On-Don, Russia, On The 6th Of December, 2020
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#29 July, 2014: Brand New Boeing 737 Fuselages Wrecked In A Train Derailment, Montana
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#30 Failed Rocket Launch
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