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  • Thumbnail for Chernobyl disaster
    according to INSAG-1, the main cause of the accident was the operators' actions, but according to INSAG-7, the main cause was the reactor's design.: 24 ...
    272 KB (29,494 words) - 20:55, 2 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fukushima nuclear accident
    The proximate cause of the accident was the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, which resulted in electrical grid failure and damaged nearly all of the...
    191 KB (18,265 words) - 21:15, 5 June 2024
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    determine the cause of the accident, and interviewed members of the Space Shuttle program, including those who had been involved with STS-107.: 234–235  The CAIB...
    108 KB (10,656 words) - 15:22, 5 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Aviation accidents and incidents
    An aviation accident is an event during aircraft operation that causes serious injury, death, or destruction; an aviation incident is any operating event...
    87 KB (9,154 words) - 06:00, 5 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Columbia Accident Investigation Board
    2003. The panel determined that the accident was caused by foam insulation breaking off from the external fuel tank, forming debris which damaged the orbiter's...
    13 KB (1,279 words) - 14:01, 5 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
    was the cause of the accident, and that NASA and Morton Thiokol failed to act despite numerous warnings of the potential dangers of the SRB. The committee's...
    117 KB (11,617 words) - 17:02, 5 June 2024
  • problems. After the accident, they were often blamed by some for being the cause of the accident. Many of the survivors of the accident mentioned a large...
    17 KB (1,851 words) - 16:08, 28 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Three Mile Island accident
    The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown of the Unit 2 reactor (TMI-2) of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station on the...
    139 KB (16,832 words) - 16:46, 22 May 2024
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    lack of safety technology that could have prevented the accident. The second cause of the accident was the inadequate safety culture in Japan. The company...
    39 KB (4,355 words) - 02:50, 5 June 2024
  • Viktor Bryukhanov (category Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour)
    was begun on the day of the accident and was led by Sergei Yankovsky. Yankovsky questioned Bryukhanov about the causes of the accident. After Bryukhanov...
    20 KB (2,160 words) - 20:01, 26 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Air France Flight 447
    the abnormality, causing the aircraft to enter an aerodynamic stall which the pilots failed to correct.: 79 : 7  The accident is the deadliest in the...
    217 KB (20,532 words) - 01:55, 4 June 2024
  • which led to the failure of the pylon structure. Contributing to the cause of the accident were the vulnerability of the design of the pylon attachment...
    54 KB (5,933 words) - 11:59, 28 May 2024
  • storage of the radiation source to be the root cause of the accident, which resulted in ten people being hospitalized for radiation injury, three of whom...
    23 KB (2,869 words) - 02:28, 12 January 2024
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    pilots and the control tower. The subsequent investigation by Spanish authorities concluded that the primary cause of the accident was the KLM captain's...
    68 KB (6,893 words) - 06:14, 31 May 2024
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    TWA Flight 800 (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the National Transportation Safety Board)
    history at that time. The report's conclusion was that the probable cause of the accident was the explosion of flammable fuel vapors in the center fuel tank...
    101 KB (10,348 words) - 23:24, 3 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Twilight Zone accident
    Safety Board (NTSB) issued its report on the accident. The probable cause of the accident was the detonation of debris-laden high temperature special effects...
    32 KB (2,948 words) - 17:10, 5 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Accident triangle
    The accident triangle, also known as Heinrich's triangle or Bird's triangle, is a theory of industrial accident prevention. It shows a relationship between...
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  • Thumbnail for Investigations into the Chernobyl disaster
    according to INSAG-1, the main cause of the accident was the operators' actions, but according to INSAG-7, the main cause was the reactor's design.: 24  Both...
    20 KB (2,463 words) - 09:31, 20 April 2024
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    Valery Legasov (category Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour)
    and Efim Slavsky of Sredmash. Bryukhanov was accused of mismanagement and that operator error was the primary cause of the accident, while design flaws...
    45 KB (5,456 words) - 20:34, 1 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Accident
    An accident is an unintended, normally unwanted event that was not directly caused by humans. The term accident implies that nobody should be blamed, but...
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