Category:Engineering failures

A

• [+] Airliner accidents and incidents caused by mechanical failure (35 P)

B

• [+] Bridge disasters (14 C, 8 P)

C

• [+] Collapsed buildings (1 C, 24 P)

C cont.

• [+] Collapsed oil platforms (7 P)

D

• [+] Dam disasters (1 C, 21 P)

I

• [+] In-flight airliner structural failures (30 P)

N

• [+] Nuclear accidents (3 C, 58 P, 3 F)

S

• [+] Software engineering disasters (18 P)
• [+] Space accidents and incidents (1 C, 23 P)

2

• 2001 Humber Refinery explosion
• Buncefield fire

A

• Aggie Bonfire
• Aviation accidents and incidents

B

• Big Dig ceiling collapse
• Birkenhead Dock Disaster
• Byford Dolphin

C

• HMS Captain (1869)
• Casco class monitor
• Cave Creek disaster
• Civil engineering and infrastructure repair in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
• Clyde Arc

C cont.

• Communication during the September 11 attacks

D

• MV Derbyshire

E

• Engineering ethics
• List of modern infrastructure failures

F

• Flixborough disaster
• Forensic engineering

G

• SS General Slocum
• Gerrards Cross tunnel collapse

H

• Hindenburg disaster

K

• Knox Mine disaster

L

• Lake Peigneur
• Life-critical system

M

• March 2008 Manhattan construction crane collapse
• May 2008 Manhattan construction crane collapse

N

• New River (Mexico – United States)
• Nicoll Highway collapse

R

• Robb Engineering

S

• Salton Sea
• Studénka train disaster

T

• RMS Titanic

V

• Versailles rail accident

W

• Westinghouse J40