20 Times People Witnessed The Worst Catastrophic Failures Of Machinery And Structures

As long as stuff is being made, stuff will break. However, it’s one thing when the item that’s breaking is something as simple as the pair of knockoff AirPods that you bought off of Wish, and a whole different one when it’s something like a cargo ship or a bridge. And today we’re all about the latter.

#1 May 7, 2021: Tourist Trapped 100m High On Chinese Glass Bridge After Floor Panels Blow Out

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#2 April 28, 1988: The Roof Of An Aloha Airlines Jet Ripped Off In Mid-Air At 24,000 Feet

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The plane still managed to land safely. One Stewardess was sucked out of the plane. Her body was never found.

#3 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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#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 The View Of The Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse From Atop The Suspension Cabling, 1940

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#6 Gas Leak Into Water Main Taiwan

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#7 2019: Cars Getting Transported On An Open Deck Catch On Fire After Salty Water Shorts Their Batteries

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#8 August 14, 2020: Chocolate Snows Down On Swiss Town Due To Factory Defect

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#9 Red Wine Cistern Catastrophically Ruptures At Sicilian Winery

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#10 $1,250,000 Worth Of Corn Spilled After Silo Collapse In New Carlisle, Ohio On Jan 28, 2018

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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 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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#13 Boeing 777 Engine Failed At 13000 Feet. Landed Safely

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#14 On May 20, 1976, During Structural Renovations, A Fire Burned Away The Montreal’s Biosphère Transparent Acrylic Dome

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#15 A Functioning Dutch Windmill From 1848 Burned Down

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#16 In Pittsburgh. Sinkhole Eats Bus. No One Seriously Hurt

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#17 Markham, Ontario, Plywood Used To Repair Building Proves Insufficient For The Task

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#18 December 19, 2019: Drill Bit After Taking Out Some Of London’s Internet

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#19 August 4, 2020: Storage Before The Blast, Beirut

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#20 April 20, 2010: The Oil Rig Deep Water Horizon Suffered A Catastrophic Blowout

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