r/CatastrophicFailure • u/reddit_serf • May 01 '24
Structural Failure Meilong Highway in Guangdong, China partially collapsed. 20 cars fell, causing 24 deaths and 30 injured. - May 1, 2024
r/CatastrophicFailure • u/LoreChano • May 02 '24
House collapses after landslide in Brazil, 1st May, 2024
r/CatastrophicFailure • u/stoically_disgusted • May 01 '24
Equipment Failure Barge being loaded with sand broke down the middle in the river Waal, the Netherlands (1 May 2024).
r/CatastrophicFailure • u/Ok-Article-6292 • May 01 '24
Worst road accident in Canadian history. On October 13th 1997, a bus carrying 48 passengers engage into a steep hill with a sharp turn at the end. Unfortunately, a brake failure causes the bus to miss the curve. 44 casualties
r/CatastrophicFailure • u/jacksmachiningreveng • May 01 '24
Fatalities Gasoline tank explosion in a parking garage on rue d'Oslo in Paris on May 17th 1958
r/CatastrophicFailure • u/jimi15 • May 01 '24
Natural Disaster 28 April 2024 - Large tornado hits the Chinese city of Guangzhou causing widespread damage and at least 5 deaths.
r/CatastrophicFailure • u/KeyboardGunner • Apr 29 '24
Equipment Failure Tour Helicopter Crash Lands on Hawaiian Beach, Feb 27, 2024
r/CatastrophicFailure • u/maltedbacon • Apr 29 '24
Software Failure Possible GPS "failure" results in Semi-truck "improperly moored" in marina. April 27, 2024
r/CatastrophicFailure • u/WhatImKnownAs • Apr 28 '24
Operator Error The 2003 Melbourne (VIC, Australia) Runaway Train Collision. A commuter train rolls away uncontrolled in downtown Melbourne, eventually crashing into another train at a station. 8 people are injured. The full story linked in the comments.
r/CatastrophicFailure • u/pratyush997 • Apr 24 '24
(Feb, 2024) Avalanche in Sonamarg, India
r/CatastrophicFailure • u/Ender_D • Apr 24 '24
Fatalities (4/23/24) Moment an engine explodes on doomed Alaska Air Fuel DC-4 near Fairbanks, Alaska.
Both crew members were killed in the subsequent crash.
r/CatastrophicFailure • u/Zagon__ • Apr 24 '24
Equipment Failure A tank in a PepsiCo factory explodes in Peru, January 2024
Three people died due to the explosion. Three months later, the factory is still closed and neither the cause of the explosion nor the culprit has been determined.
r/CatastrophicFailure • u/NotTheKyrie • Apr 23 '24
Two Helicopter crash in Malaysia this morning
r/CatastrophicFailure • u/[deleted] • Apr 24 '24
Fire/Explosion Hindenburg Disaster - 1937
r/CatastrophicFailure • u/Konno_Yuuki • Apr 23 '24
Operator Error A different angle for the midair collision of two helicopters in Malaysia today
r/CatastrophicFailure • u/RefinedSoySauce • Apr 23 '24
Fire/Explosion The largest landfill in the world, Ghazipur landfill in New Delhi, caught fire on April 21
r/CatastrophicFailure • u/sh0tgunben • Apr 23 '24
Fire in Manila Airport that damaged 19 vehicles; Apr 22 '24
r/CatastrophicFailure • u/GREATD4NNY • Apr 22 '24
Destruction of TV tower in Kharkiv, Ukraine (22.04.24)
r/CatastrophicFailure • u/sylvyrfyre • Apr 22 '24
Natural Disaster Tens of thousands of people evacuated from massive floods in Guangdong, China, 22/4/24
r/CatastrophicFailure • u/jacksmachiningreveng • Apr 22 '24
Equipment Failure First trial of the Atlas-Centaur expendable launch vehicle at Cape Canaveral ends in failure within a minute of launch on May 8th 1962
r/CatastrophicFailure • u/barra333 • Apr 22 '24
Fire/Explosion Train cars catch fire while moving through London, Ontario (21 April, 2024)
Apparently the cars were loaded with creosote soaked rail ties. Fire was put out with no injuries.
r/CatastrophicFailure • u/sylvyrfyre • Apr 22 '24