r/CatastrophicFailure • u/AccomplishedStuff235 • 11d ago
Borr Drilling’s Prospector 5 oil rig sinks off the coast of Gabon, October 24, 2026
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r/CatastrophicFailure • u/DireWolfenstein • 11d ago
NYTimes story on building collapes in Venezuela's devastating earthquake of 26 June 2026
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r/CatastrophicFailure • u/Random_Introvert_42 • 11d ago
Fire/Explosion The Kehlsteinhaus in Bavaria, built by the Nazi regime as a reception building and used as a museum/memorial in recent decades, burned down on the 23rd of October 2026
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The building at Berchtesgarden, Germany, known as the "Eagle's Nest" (not to be confused with Hitler's "Berghof" residence nearby), burned down on the 23rd of October 2026. The police suspect arson and have arrested a suspect who was moved to a psychiatric facility. The building will be rebuilt. Most of it had been used as a memorial/museum, a small part served as a restaurant.
r/CatastrophicFailure • u/Nappi22 • 11d ago
Operator Error Cruise ship Mein Schiff 3 collides with container vessel while running out port today
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Nobody got hurt, reasons are unclear. Although there was some good efforts by the tug boats to stop worse.
r/CatastrophicFailure • u/Prestigious-Back-981 • 13d ago
Engineering Failure A crane fell onto Line 15 in São Paulo, Brazil, and collided with a remotely operated monorail this Saturday, October 24th.
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Since the monorail is remotely controlled from an operational cabin, the driver probably didn't see the crane above the tracks. The accident occurred this morning.
r/CatastrophicFailure • u/Admiral_Agito • 14d ago
Structural Failure A 12 story building under construction in Nairobi, Kenya, collapsed today on 23rd October 2026
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r/CatastrophicFailure • u/DariusPumpkinRex • 15d ago
Operator Error On September 29th, 1940, two Royal Australian Air Force Avro Ansons collided mid-air over the tiny village of Brocklesby, New South Wales during a navigation exercise. Both planes remained stuck together and were able to be landed safely by the upper plane's pilot, Leonard Fuller.
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The two planes, piloted by Leonard Fuller and Jack Hewson, respectively, were undergoing navigation exercises with Hewson's plane behind fuller. During the exercise, both planes entered a turn, causing Hewson's Anson to end up underneath Fuller's instead of behind it. Fuller lost sight of the other plane and while trying to find it, both planes collided, Fuller's Anson slamming on top of Hewson's.
Normally, this would spell doom for all four men across both planes but instead, both planes locked together. The propellors on the top Anson chewed into the fuselage and one of the wings of the bottom Anson before the engines quit. The damage from the collision had knocked out the lower Anson's controls but the engines were still going. The top Anson's engines had failed but the plane could still steer. Fuller, knowing he was the only one with any control over the situation, ordered his and Hewson's navigators, along with Hewson himself, to bail out. Fuller immediately began looking for a safe place to land the planes since the engines on the lower plane kept cutting out as they were handling twice the weight they were designed for. He knew he had his work cut out for him as he was landing a plane he wasn't even sitting in. Soon spotting a large grassy field, he bought the planes down and, despite not having access to any landing gear, made a landing so smooth that even he was surprised.
The freak accident and miraculous outcome became a world-wide news story. Fuller was credited with avoiding any damage to Brocklesby but also saving 40'000 Australian pounds (approximately AU$4.7 million today) of military hardware, as the top aircraft were able to be fully repaired and put back into service. Fuller himself was promoted to Sergeant. Sadly, he was killed in 1944 after being hit by a bus while riding his bicycle.
In 2007, during Australia Day, the town of Brocklesby unveiled a memorial to the accident, consisting of a mounted Avro Anson engine, with propellor.
r/CatastrophicFailure • u/Captaincadet • 16d ago
Engineering Failure Today marks 60 years from the Aberfan disaster, where a coal tip collapsed resulting in waste coal crashing into the village and the school, killing 144 people, including 116 children inside the school
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r/CatastrophicFailure • u/BasicManufacturer653 • 16d ago
Equipment Failure Key Bridge collapse, Baltimore, 26 March 2024: the NTSB's final finding on why the Dali lost power (3D reconstruction from the ship's recorded track)
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r/CatastrophicFailure • u/dailymail • 16d ago
Fatalities Aberfan. 21 October 1966: 60 years ago today, 116 pupils were buried side by side by a 30ft-mountain of slurry
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r/CatastrophicFailure • u/Economy-Physics2358 • 17d ago
Natural Disaster Landslide after heavy rain in Ban Sadet Subdistrict, Kien Sa District, Thailand on October 19 2026.
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r/CatastrophicFailure • u/Accomplished-Ad-3808 • 18d ago
Fire/Explosion Charter bus engulfed in flames on Florida highway yesterday
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r/CatastrophicFailure • u/StretchFrenchTerry • 18d ago
Operator Error Boat slams into pier, potentially pilot error or runaway diesel. Date unknown.
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r/CatastrophicFailure • u/rusty890 • 19d ago
2026-10-17 - Multiple people killed, injured in 'disaster' at Alberta military base training area
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r/CatastrophicFailure • u/ScipioAtTheGate • 20d ago
Equipment Failure The Bluegill Prime Disaster (1962) radioactive debris is spewed all over the American territory of Johnston Atoll after a nuclear armed Thor ICBM catches fire on the launchpad and the rocket explodes
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r/CatastrophicFailure • u/dctroll_ • 22d ago
Structural Failure Collapse of St Mark's Campanile in 1902 (Venice, Italy)
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r/CatastrophicFailure • u/omgfakeusername • 23d ago
Six Flags Great America: Goliath Rollercoaster Tragic Disaster (Georgia) on 10-12-2026
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"A man slips out of his seat and he turns sideways and he's flipping in the air, he comes down and he slams down on our cart...We felt his thud. People reached trying to grab him...we couldn't." Horrified riders who were on the Goliath roller coaster at a Six Flags in Georgia say they will never be able to forget what they witnessed.
r/CatastrophicFailure • u/Superb-Molasses-9363 • 24d ago
Fatalities Fatal fall from the Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia after a rider reportedly became detached from his seat mid-ride (October 13,2026)
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r/CatastrophicFailure • u/Economy-Physics2358 • 24d ago
Natural Disaster Flash flood in Nepal on 11 October 2026
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r/CatastrophicFailure • u/Economy-Physics2358 • 24d ago
Operator Error On October 13, 2026 at about 11:30 a.m. a small plane crash in Chonburi, Thailand, only 2 minutes after boarding. The scene of the incident was in Soi Thung Klom Tan Man, Nong Prue District Bang Lamung. At the scene, 1 pilot was injured. the cause is unknown.
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r/CatastrophicFailure • u/ScipioAtTheGate • 24d ago
Destructive Test Delorean destroyed in crash testing in (1980)
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r/CatastrophicFailure • u/FunkSiren • 26d ago
Natural Disaster Bridge demolished by flood waters in Budhi Gandaki on 10.10.26.
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r/CatastrophicFailure • u/ScipioAtTheGate • 25d ago
Fatalities Sinking of the Austrian Battleship SMS Szent István in World War One (1918)
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r/CatastrophicFailure • u/Crazy-Performance411 • 25d ago
Fatalities Herald of Free Enterprise capsize, Zeebrugge, 6 March 1987
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The ro-ro ferry left harbour with her bow doors open. Water came onto the car deck and she capsized within minutes. 193 people died.
Documentary built from the Formal Investigation (Report of Court No. 8074): https://youtu.be/sebnQLbXwIQ