Talk:Flixborough disaster

we need to redo this. i need to add a link to Flixborough the town. what we need is a disambig page called flixborough, except if you search for 'flixborough' it brings you here.

how do we do this? how do we stop 'flixborough' coming here? I don't know Lincolnshire Poacher

I had previously fixed this -- see my note below -- there is now a separate page for Flixborough the village. --mervyn 16:25, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

I have now fixed this and set up Flixborough as a stub. Since Flixborough village is the only Flixborough, it doesnt need to be a disambig page, but those wikilinks which lead to Flixborough when they really mean to link to Flixborough disaster should be disambiguated. Forgot to mention that in order to edit a redirect you click where it says Redirected from ... and that opens up the redirect code for editing. --mervyn 10:25, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Bizarre Coincidences

Edited this section to reflect the speculative nature of the claim. It's an interesting yarn but lacks even a source citation. Any actual corroborating "evidence"? --Oscar Bravo 14:33, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

I think we can safely remove unsourced vague claims like this!

==Bizarre coincidences==

Lesley Brennan, who lived in the Grimsby area, claimed that at around 12 noon that same day, some five hours before the detonation took place, she was watching her TV when the word NEWSFLASH filled the screen and she learnt about the actual disaster before it had taken place. She told friends at lunch time of the incident/premonition, then later in the day saw the news reports on the television, mistakenly believing it had still taken place around lunchtime.

Have done so --mervyn 08:07, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

I do actually recall this story appearing on that wonderful source of knowledge 'The Mysterious World of Arthur C Clarke' in the early 1980's. I remember it because the lady comes from my part of the world (actually she lived in Cleethorpes). However i don't think such stories actually belong in this article and may be worthy of inclusion in articles like 'Preminition/Pre-cognition' so long as sources could be referenced. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.10.243.254 (talk) 21:15, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Flixborough villageres relocation?

I was just looking at the article for Bonby (I lived there for a few years back in the early 80s) - the article is woefully inadequate, and was thinking of adding to it. Anyway - at the time I lived there, there were some 'modern' blocks of flats in the village that I seem to recall were described as having been built to house villagers from Flixborough who had to relocate following the disaster, presumably due to damage to their homes. Is this true, or simply either apocryphal or my poor memory? Thanks. Carre 20:59, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Location

should it not be said that it was in Lincolnshire rater than north Lincolnshire, as it was at the time, or even Humberside, if that was in existence in '78? just a suggestion :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Abc26324 (talk • contribs) 19:41, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

I assume you mean 1974, in which case it would be Humberside which came into existence on 1 April 1974. Keith D (talk) 17:58, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

As above, the area was then Humberside but the fledgling Humberside Fire Service was still not fully operational and the emergency call-centre that initially controlled the response was in Louth, Lincolnshire and under the remit of Lincolnshire Fire Brigade. Control was subsequently re-routed to Scunthorpe. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.29.64.26 (talk) 22:32, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

I see that somebody recorded my buttock injury, and had it removed straight away. It was a tragic event, and indeed I lost a school-friend, but it is a pity that editors have no sense of humour.Roxy the dog (talk) 23:12, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Animals.

"It killed 28 people and seriously injured 36. No animals were hurt." This was the second + third paragraph the story, seems to be some kind of joke. Deleting the animal reference. Chardansearavitriol (talk) 09:41, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Article on Preventing Catastrophic Failure

The author of the short article cited below (available through Academic Search Elite) is an experienced consulting engineer. He criticizes the idea to use flexible piping on centrifugal pumps, even if only temporarily. To support his claim he draws on the Flixborough explosion, which he believes could have been prevented using rigid piping. In fact, he believes that for any case in which process plants handle dangerous materials, extra care should be taken to recognize potential problems and prevent them.

Bloch, H. P. (2008). Remembering Flixboro: part 1. Hydrocarbon Processing, 87(10), 9.

Socrates90 (talk) 21:11, 8 February 2012 (UTC)