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2005 Bp Texas city Refinery explosion.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_Refinery_explosion
737-800max plane crashes 3-2019
https://www.fierceelectronics.com/electronics/killer-software-4-lessons-from-deadly-737-max-crashes#:~:text=It's%20been%20widely%20reported%20that,crashes%20that%20killed%20346%20people.
The levees breaking in New Orleans during hurricane Katrina. 8-2005
https://www.unitedstatesnow.org/what-caused-the-levees-to-break-in-new-orleans-during-hurricane-katrina.htm
Thanks for sharing, these are so interesting!!
The Boston Molasses Disaster is an interesting example of a historic engineering accident. There have been other famous accidents that are worth looking into, such as the Chernobyl nuclear disaster or the 2007 I-35W Mississippi River bridge collapse. Each of these accidents highlights different aspects of engineering failures, and they provide important lessons for future engineers. It's important to learn from these accidents so that we can avoid them in the future.
Chernobyl I defintiely knew about haha but that bridge one is interesting for sure
The Boston Molasses Disaster is definitely one of the craziest engineering accidents in history! But there are definitely others that are worth looking into. For example, the collapse of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa, Italy earlier this year was a devastating tragedy. The collapse killed 43 people and injured dozens more. It's still not clear what caused the bridge to collapse, but an investigation is currently underway.
Thank you for pointing these out, I'll make sure to read more into them
Challenger Space Shuttle is basically a case study at this point
Fukushima nuclear reactor is a fairly recent one that is worth learning about
Bhopal gas tragedy - between 3k - 10k killed and many more with long term impacts. Considered as one of the worst industrial disasters ever in terms of human life. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster