(28/11/2023) Two separate EMB-120 aircraft suffered gear collapse and runway excursion at Kikoboga, Tanzania roughly 6 hours apart5mo ⋅ Lostsonofpluto ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
An elevated train crash at the intersection of Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues in Brooklyn, New York, June 25, 19235yr ⋅ ibkeepr ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Lifeboats are launched from the cruise ship Costa Concordia as it sinks off Isola del Giglio, 13 January 20121yr ⋅ RLoret ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
4-11-96 Jessica Dubroff,her father and flight instructor were killed when the aircraft took off in bad weather,Jessica died trying to become the youngest person to fly a light aircraft across the states,she was 7 years old.2yr ⋅ Carp69 ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
The cargo ship LUNO breaks in half after crashing into the breakwater at Anglet, France, 20146yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
A Pilatus PC-12 crashes after losing engine power (4/23/19) Photo from NBC 54yr ⋅ Jewishtrain105 ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
On July 31 1973 Delta flight 723 hit a seawall on landing at Boston Logan International Airport, killing all 89 on board.9mo ⋅ c422 ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
July 3 2019. Garbage truck flys off overpassing into oncoming traffic. New Jersey - New York City.5yr ⋅ porquepine80 ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Visiting the aftermath of the Yellowstone floods 4 months later, south of Gardiner, Montana1yr ⋅ reisucks3 ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Chicken truck accident on California’s Hwy 166, December 27, 20194yr ⋅ GiveMeYourMomsDigits ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Fire in the Warsaw skyscraper - June 7, 2019 - Pic by Filip Bramorski2yr ⋅ ThePolasz ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
This is what happens when two cars are sandwiched in between lorries6yr ⋅ i_keep_on_trying ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Boulders crashed through this Italian farmhouse. January 2014.3yr ⋅ Browndog888 ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Asiana Airlines Flight 212 crashed at San Francisco International Airport,7/6/13, although not the worst aircraft disaster by far it is notable for the fact that SFFD ran over 2 of the deceased and proclaimed shit happens and a news report stating the name of the pilot as Captain Sum Ting Wong2yr ⋅ Carp69 ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Explosion in a Grain Elevator in Jefferson, Iowa This Morning3yr ⋅ MyNameIsAirl ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
C-130 Crashed into a Drury Inn at Evansville, IN 1992. 16 Killed5yr ⋅ KameronL69x ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
1961, a B-52 Stratofortress carrying three 4 megaton nuclear bombs breaks up in mid-air dropping its nuclear payload. Amazingly, no bombs exploded.3yr ⋅ MerseySideAlt9 ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
The Tacoma Bridge Collapse - When a bridge resonated with the wind (1940)4yr ⋅ NodesInLa ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
20 years ago thousands of kids were traumatized watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade6yr ⋅ DrHNIC ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Heavy dump truck comes into contact with high voltage power line and tires explode.7yr ⋅ WarLorax ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
A Cuban 737 airliner has crashed just after takeoff from Havana with 104 people on board6yr ⋅ DA_KING_IN_DA_NORF ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) after colliding with the container ship MV ACX Crystal off the coast of Japan, 17 June 20172yr ⋅ RLoret ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Transfer slab collapsed as they were pouring concrete in a highrise building. No workers injured as far as I know. May 7th 2021 Ontario Canada3yr ⋅ ChickenBalls42 ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Two military planes collided and crashed in Guidonia near Rome today1yr ⋅ Andrea-Di-Cello ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Catastrophic failure or our trucks driveshaft. Today 6 August 20195yr ⋅ thealteregoofryan ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Jan,29 1996, Captain John Stacy Bates received clearance for a vertical takeoff from Nashville International Airport in his F14, with his parents watching he lost orientation and plunged the aircraft into a house, killing himself, his radar intercept officer and 3 people in the house.2yr ⋅ Carp69 ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
McDonnell F2H-2 Banshee attempting to land on USS Essex without tail hook deployed bounces over crash barriers and strikes parked aircraft causing 7 fatalities on September 16th 19512yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Remains of 500,000-gallon water tower after being struck by a tornado, Mayfield Kentucky 12/5/20212yr ⋅ BrewCityChaser ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
(Le Havre, 18 April 1939, colourized) The SS 'Paris' (right) catches fire and capsizes after firefighters pour too much water into her, temporarily trapping the SS 'Normandie' (left) in drydock. Three years later, the 'Normandie' would meet a similar fate.2yr ⋅ Dancou-Maryuu ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Aftermath of the C-130 when it crashed in Sulu, Philippines. According to authorities at least 50 were confirmed dead from the crash including the pilots and crew. (July 5 2021)3yr ⋅ Cowl_Markovich ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Container ship MSC Chitra grounded off the coast of Mumbai, 10 August 20108mo ⋅ RLoret ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Explosions reported at Symrise Chemical Plant - Glynn County, GA 11/7/20221yr ⋅ xKron ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
4-10-91, MV Moby Prince an Italian ferry was covered in oil after a collision with an oil tanker,the ship caught fire and 140 souls on board perished,there was 1 survivor. Fire/Explosion7mo ⋅ KitchnStep ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Metal fatigue caused Aloha 243s fuselage to fail at 24,000ft. 12 minutes later, it landed safely with only 1 of 95 aboard lost5yr ⋅ baryonyx257 ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Largest landslide in North American history. Enough earth to bury Central Park in 20 feet of dirt. (Bingham Canyon Mine)6yr ⋅ easternconference11 ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Massive explosion at CAPECO facility, Puerto Rico in 2009. An overflowed gasoline storage tank spilled out, causing a 107-acre vapour cloud which ignited6yr ⋅ Podal419 ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Electrical Malfunction causes Fire at UN Warehouse, Destroys 50 Tons of Food for Starving Yemenis6yr ⋅ OMGLMAOWTF_com ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
View of the Tacoma narrows bridge from atop the suspension cabling, 1940.4yr ⋅ arcroix ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Oblivious truck driver takes out an entire section of a toll booth6yr ⋅ Morty_Goldman ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
On May 20, 1976, during structural renovations, a fire burned away the Montreal's Biosphere transparent acrylic dome.1yr ⋅ terriblyforgive36 ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Aftermath of the gas explosion at the Chinese city of Shenyang, where 3 people were killed and more than 30 injured (2021-10-21).2yr ⋅ vaish7848 ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
A corn silo containing over 10,000 tons of corn collapsed in my town in January. Nobody was injured.5yr ⋅ loganb3171 ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Crane operator fell asleep while at the controls. Laying over a 10 tone coil tubing injector onto the ground. no one was hurt. 10/15/174yr ⋅ RogueKirito33 ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Lightning struck plane, Diversion flight, emergency landing, El Paso airport.6yr ⋅ Clit0ria ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
The Ramstein airshow disaster, 1988. The Italian Air Force display team, Frecce Tricolori, were mid-display when a mid-air collision took place as the two groups passed each other. One jets fuselage and resulting fireball of aviation fuel tumbled into the spectator area, hitting the crowd.2yr ⋅ Status-Victory ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
This has probably been posted before, the event took place in 20106yr ⋅ friedfandango ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
The derailed tram that landed on a statue is being recovered now3yr ⋅ sloth_on_meth ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
High-resolution photo of failed engine on Air France flight AF66, an Airbus A380.7yr ⋅ atomicthumbs ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Antares rocket self-destructs after a LOX turbopump failure at T+6 seconds6yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Unbuckled rally car falls while being lifted to a higher floor6yr ⋅ explorer_c37 ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Coulson Boeing 737 Fireliner crashed on a firefighting mission in the Fitzgerald River National Park, Western Australia, Feb 6, 20231yr ⋅ SquiffyRae ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Earlier today, July 13, 2020, an AN-12 hit power lines and crashed. It then caught on fire. The crash killed 1 and seriously injured the other occupant.4yr ⋅ NHplanespotter ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
A steel coil was secured in the wrong place causing the trailer to fail. North Alabama, 5/17/19.5yr ⋅ pieman256 ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
B17 releases payload on another B17 over Berlin killing all 11 crew6yr ⋅ JohnSelth ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Cape San Blas turned in to island post Hurricane Michael5yr ⋅ trackfastpulllow ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Highway 1, south of Big Sur California washed away, January 20213yr ⋅ FortuitousAdroit ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Sealink Beached once again 16/10/1987 - Folkestone, Kent.1yr ⋅ Temporary-Memory69 ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
The building which collapsed in the aftershock of the Great Hanshin Earthquake January 7, 1995(Kobe, Hyogo, Japan)5yr ⋅ maruhoi ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
This train was driving without a driver for over 20 km while burning. The driver jumped out after he discovered the fire. It could only be stopped by derailing it. 09/07/20204yr ⋅ Dungeony ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
50+ vehicle pile up in Charleston, MO 3/17/22. Multiple fatalities.2yr ⋅ 11-110011 ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
3/3/1974 Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crash site after the In-Flight opening of the Cargo door1yr ⋅ LynxjetYT ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Grenfell Tower, the 8th worst skyscraper fire in history. Just before 01:00 on June 14th, 2017, a fire broke out in the kitchen of a fourth floor flat at the 23 storey tower block in North Kensington, West London. It claimed at least 70 lives.4yr ⋅ HarryIsAHuman2 ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Today marks the 26th anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing. Clipper maid of the seas(N739PA). A 747-121 the 15th 747 built belonging to Pan am broke apart mid flight due bomb in cargo bay exploding. there were no survivors and 11 deaths in lockerbie when the wing section struck sherwood crescent.1yr ⋅ FrozenUruguay ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Festive tree erupts in flames as several thousand mark New Year celebration. The 25 metre tall tree in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk burns to ashes in minutes as fireworks usher in 2018 across Russia6yr ⋅ OMGLMAOWTF_com ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Fly Jamaica Boeing 757 has crash landed after in-flight emergency5yr ⋅ DA_KING_IN_DA_NORF ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
The Pinova plastic resin manufacturing plant in Brunswick, Georgia caught on fire on Saturday April 15, 2023. A mandatory evacuation was ordered for everyone within a 0.5 mile radius from the plant.1yr ⋅ TimAppleBurner ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Over 45 car pile up on the Virginian peninsula that happened on 12/22/2019 (22/12/2019)4yr ⋅ anklefat ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
The 2020 Los Angeles (CA, USA) Train Derailment. The attempt to ram a train into a ship sheds a light on the importance of mental health evaluations and the dangers of conspiracy theories. The full story linked in the comments.3wk ⋅ WhatImKnownAs ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Almo Bridge (Sweden) collapsed after the MS Star Clipper struck the bridge arch, on 18 January 1980. No casualty from the collapse, but 8 people died as they drove over the edge until the road was closed 40 minutes after the accident.6yr ⋅ biwook ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
December 8, 1988. A low flying A-10 Thunderbolt crashed into an apartment at Remscheid, Germany. 6 killed (including the pilot) and 50 injured.5yr ⋅ 2015071 ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
The 2013 Lac-Megantic (Canada) Runaway Train Inferno. A defective freight train rolls into a town unmanned due to insufficient brakes and derails, sparking an inferno. 47 people die. The full story linked in the comments.2mo ⋅ WhatImKnownAs ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Highway 1 in British Columbia, Canada after unprecedented rainfall Nov 15 20212yr ⋅ PM_ME_YOUR_3_WISHES ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
NOS tank exploded due to overheating and malfunctioning pressure release valve7yr ⋅ schizoduckie ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
August 7, 2021. Semi carrying 27,000 lbs of aerosol deodorant explodes at Oklahoma truck stop.2yr ⋅ Perma_frosting ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
NASA Helios plunges to its doom in the Pacific Ocean June 26, 20033yr ⋅ dangerevans007 ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
The moment when the oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded in April 20106yr ⋅ Apeshaft ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
TP&W train 20 details in Crescent City, Illinois. 10 tank cars filled with liquid propane catch fire and cause a BLEVE. (June 21, 1970)4yr ⋅ Jewishtrain105 ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Is this Catastrophic enough? It looks like it could cause some serious harm if no one had noticed.6yr ⋅ imperialfishFTW ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
The 1989 Ufa (Soviet Union) Train Inferno. Sparks from a passing train cause leaked gas from a faulty pipeline to explode, with the blast derailing 2 trains. At least 575 people die. The full story linked in the comments.1mo ⋅ WhatImKnownAs ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
A truck lost a large part of a windmill near Apeldoorn, The Netherlands today.1yr ⋅ dannybluey ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Trucks are stuck on a flooded street following heavy rainfalls in Erftstadt, Germany, July 16, 2021. (Photo by Thilo Schmuelgen/Reuters)3yr ⋅ Extreme_Truth_ ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
(Baltimore, MD – 19 December, 1976) Just minutes after a Colts–Steelers playoff game concludes, an unauthorized Piper Cherokee buzzes Memorial Stadium and crashes into the upper deck. There were no serious injuries. The pilot would be arrested.7mo ⋅ Dancou-Maryuu ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Amtrak train hits FedEx truck that ran a stop sign, killing the driver. No injuries on the train. 11/28/22.1yr ⋅ Pandalism ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Catastrophic failure results in a fantastic success during a test of the Apollo abort system aboard a Little Joe II rocket6yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
The 1995 Fox River Grove (IL, USA) Level Crossing Collision. An inexperienced driver and poor infrastructure design cause a school bus to be struck by a train at a level crossing. 7 people die. The full story linked in the comments.2mo ⋅ WhatImKnownAs ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Aftermath of a large truck trailer slamming into a bridge on a busy Melbourne freeway6yr ⋅ YaMumIsYaDadd ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
June 24 1994, this B-52 Stratofortress stalled and hit the ground during practice at Fairchild AFB Washington,killing all 4 crew members, this was the last of many flight rules the pilot broke during his Air Force career.3yr ⋅ Carp69 ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
8/23/2022 - the main highway into Providence flooded and stopped traffic close to 20 miles.1yr ⋅ oneup84 ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Today a big box store’s delivery truck ran over an electricity box2yr ⋅ SpankySharp1 ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Air Transat Flight 236, a wrongly installed fuel/hydraulic line bracket caused the main fuel line to rupture, 98 minutes later, both engines had flamed out from fuel starvation. The pilots glided for 75 miles/120Km, and landed hard at Lajes AFB, Azores. All 306 aboard survive (18 injuries)5yr ⋅ baryonyx257 ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Heidelberg Castle, Germany - Powder Tower blown apart by the French in 16896yr ⋅ clausy ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Heavy dump truck comes into contact with high voltage power line and tires explode.6yr ⋅ whoareyou321 ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
North American F-100C-20-NA, 54-1907, lost due to Sabre Dance wing stall on 10 January 19566yr ⋅ RyanSmith ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
