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  • Cypress Street Viaduct Collapse
    Cypress Street Viaduct Collapse

    Cypress Street Viaduct Collapse

    Friday Famous Failures

Cypress Street Viaduct Collapse

On October 17, 1989, Ruth Anne Liu-Johnston left her office in San Francisco and traveled toward downtown Oakland. On her way, she drove across the Bay Bridge and took the I-880 connector. As she drove, she noticed her speedometer ...

By |2024-01-16T08:25:13-06:00October 24th, 2024|Friday Famous Failures|1 Comment
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  • Radio Tower Collapse
    Radio Tower Collapse – Texas

    Radio Tower Collapse – Texas

    Friday Famous Failures

Radio Tower Collapse – Texas

As the last section of the tower was being raised, the supporting bolts suddenly failed, and the entire section fell, cascading a thousand feet to the ground. On the way down, the falling section sheered away guy wires and caused the entire structure to topple.

By |2024-01-16T08:25:13-06:00September 26th, 2024|Friday Famous Failures|5 Comments
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  • The Apollo I Fire Disaster
    The Apollo I Fire Disaster

    The Apollo I Fire Disaster

    Friday Famous Failures

The Apollo I Fire Disaster

At the height of the space race in the 1960s, the United States pursued an accelerated program to put men on the moon before the Soviet Union. Apollo 1 was to be the first crewed mission of the United States Apollo program, the undertaking ...

By |2024-01-16T08:25:27-06:00August 29th, 2024|Friday Famous Failures|1 Comment
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  • The Explosion of the SS Sultana
    The Explosion of the SS Sultana

    The Explosion of the SS Sultana

    Friday Famous Failures

The Explosion of the SS Sultana

The SS Sultana was an impressive steamboat that ran regular trips up and down the Mississippi River during the Civil War. Then, in the wake of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, the SS Sultana ...

By |2024-01-16T08:25:27-06:00July 25th, 2024|Friday Famous Failures|2 Comments
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  • The Johnstown Flood
    The Johnstown Flood

    The Johnstown Flood

    Friday Famous Failures

The Johnstown Flood

The rain pelted the men that desperately tried to save the dam, located 14 miles upstream of the town of Johnstown, PA in the southwest corner of the state. Hours earlier, Elian Unger, the president of the South ...

By PEimpact JH|2024-07-22T12:43:24-06:00June 27th, 2024|Friday Famous Failures|4 Comments
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  • The Bridge That Collapsed Twice
    The Bridge That Collapsed Twice

    The Bridge That Collapsed Twice

    Friday Famous Failures

The Bridge That Collapsed Twice

It was one of the world’s most ambitious bridge engineering projects of the time. When completed, the Quebec Bridge would be the longest cantilevered bridge in the world and connect the busy ports on either ...

By |2024-01-16T08:25:27-06:00May 30th, 2024|Friday Famous Failures|1 Comment
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  • The Charles de Gaulle Airport Collapse
    The Charles de Gaulle Airport Collapse

    The Charles de Gaulle Airport Collapse

    Friday Famous Failures

The Charles de Gaulle Airport Collapse

The Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, France is the largest airport in France and the second busiest airport in Europe. Every year, millions of passengers and hundreds of thousands of flights depart and arrive ...

By |2024-01-16T08:25:42-06:00April 25th, 2024|Friday Famous Failures|3 Comments
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  • The Hindenburg Disaster
    The Hindenburg Disaster

    The Hindenburg Disaster

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The Hindenburg Disaster

By 1937, giant hydrogen airships were sailing through the world’s skies, ferrying thousands of passengers across oceans and continents. These airships, also called zeppelins, promised quicker transport times than ...

By |2024-01-16T08:25:42-06:00March 21st, 2024|Friday Famous Failures|4 Comments
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  • The Sinking of the Titanic
    The Sinking of The Titanic

    The Sinking of The Titanic

    Friday Famous Failures

The Sinking of The Titanic

It’s an old adage that sometimes the unthinkable happens. Well, sometimes the unsinkable happens too. In the early morning hours of April 14, 1912, the largest luxury passenger liner ever built...

By |2024-01-16T08:25:42-06:00February 22nd, 2024|Friday Famous Failures|4 Comments
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  • The Chernobyl Disaster
    The Chernobyl Disaster

    The Chernobyl Disaster

    Friday Famous Failures

The Chernobyl Disaster

The town of Pripyat in the Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine was new, pleasant and boasted both prosperity and job security as the location of the advanced, modern Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant ...

By |2024-01-25T11:46:38-06:00January 25th, 2024|Friday Famous Failures|1 Comment
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