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Sadly, tragedy is part of life and even the most well-meaning plans can end in disaster. While these situations might be difficult to look at, we shouldn’t just ignore what happened. Analyzing the things that went wrong teaches us how to prevent similar scenarios in the future.
The subreddit r/CatastrophicFailure is dedicated to documenting man-made devices, machines, and structures breaking down in ways many simply couldn’t imagine. So let’s scroll through the community’s latest posts and hope we never see anything like this in person.
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#1
Sinking Ship At The Mouth Of The Columbia River. Coast Guard Rescue Arrived Just In Time To Capture Footage And Rescue Captain
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#2
Southwest Airlines Flight 1248
#3
All Essential Connections Between Vancouver, Bc And The Rest Of Canada Currently Severed After Catastrophic Rains (Hwy 1 At The Top Is Like The I-5 Of Canada)
That’s all I yam 7 hours ago
“Sections of Highway 1 and the Coquihalla Highway near Hope were washed away, along with a parallel railroad. On the Coquihalla Highway, many bridges partly or completely collapsed. Near Hope, an entire section of the westbound side of the highway was washed out by the overflowing Coquihalla River. On November 18 [2021], the Government of British Columbia estimated that repairs for the Coquihalla Highway between Hope and Merritt would take months and that temporary Bailey bridges would be procured.” ( 2021 Pacific Northwest floods, Wikipedia)
#4
Motor Yacht Fire In Torquay, UK
#5
Rift Caused By The Earthquake In Hatay, Turkey. 200 Meters Long And 30 Meters Of Depth
NightOwlPanda 8 hours ago
Someone nicer than I am would go through here and add dates to each of these.
#6
Brazilian Navy Training Ship Cisne Branco Hits A Pedestrian Bridge Over The Guayas River In Ecuador
#7
What’s Left Of The Home Depot That Caught Fire (San Jose, CA, USA)
#8
Oil Pipeline Broke And Is Spraying Oil In Amazon Rainforest In Ecuador. It's Flowing Down Into A River That Supplies Indigenous People With Drinking Water Downstream
#9
45ft Robotic Dragon Caught Fire At Disneyland
#10
“I Shut Down The Wrong Engine” Taipei Crash
#11
This Walmart Distribution Center In Indianapolis
GirlFriday 8 minutes ago
2022 Fire in Plainfield, IN. It wasn't arson. All 1,000 warehouse workers were safely evacuated, the only injury reported was a minor injury to a firefighter.
#12
An Mi-8 Crashing Over The Core Of The Reactor On October 2, 1986
Upstaged75 7 hours ago
If you click on the Reddit link this is a video. The helicopter's rotors hit cables on a crane, which caused it to crash.
#13
Cng-Powered Bus On Fire Near Perugia, Italy
#14
The Dome Of The Grand Mosque Of The Islamic Center In Indonesian Jakarta Collapsing
#15
Accident And Backup On I-84 Near Pendleton, Oregon
#17
A Container Ship Ran Aground; Two Days Later, 24 May, The Ground Is Sliding Into The Sea
#18
Remnants Of The Amazon Warehouse In Edwardsville, IL The Morning After Being Hit Directly By A Confirmed Ef3 Tornado, 6 Fatalities
michael Chock 9 hours ago
Of course they wouldn't let their employees shelter during a tornado warning.
#19
Sinkhole Opened Under Private Pool In Israel
#20
Same Street Before And After The February 6 2023 Earthquake In Antakya, Turkey
That’s all I yam 7 hours ago (edited)
Earthquakes and sinkholes are scary. If they are prone to happen in an area, it'd be like living on or near time bombs that you don't know when or if they'll go off.
#21
Ten Partially Submerged Hokuriku-Shinkansen Had To Be Scrapped Because Of River Flooding During Typhoon Hagibis
That’s all I yam 6 hours ago
“Typhoon Hagibis struck with winds of 225km/h (140mph) on the weekend of 12-13 October, k*****g about 90 people and displacing thousands with flooding. It was the country's worst storm in decades. The images of the parked trains with floodwater lapping at them became symbolic of the extent of the damage.” ( Japan typhoon Hagibis: Ten flooded bullet trains scrapped, BBC )
#22
Aluminium Factory
#23
Carnival Freedom Cruise Ship Catches Fire In Grand Turk
Barbara Wilcock 7 hours ago
Cruise ships are vulgar. Hurt the environment and pollution destroying small islands
#24
Dubai 35 Story Hi-Rise On Fire. Building Belongs To The Emaar Company, A Developer In The Region
#25
Melbourne Florida - Vehicle Drove Into A Fireworks Store
#26
Snow Covered Mountains Are Rapidly Melting, From Downpours Causing Flooding . Springville CA
#27
Northeast Dubois County High School Flooding
#28
Photo Showing The Destroyed Reinforced Concrete Under The Launch Pad For The Spacex Rocket Starship
#29
A Massive Explosion Took Place Today In The Chocolate Factory In West Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
#31
Transformer Explosion At The Hoover Dam
#32
Carus Chemical Plant In La Salle, IL Has Erupted Into Flames
That’s all I yam 7 hours ago
“At around 9 am on Wednesday, January 11, 2023, the Carus Chemical plant in La Salle, Illinois, was involved in a major fire”. “… they had determined it was caused by friction between a forklift and spilled potassium permanganate”. “ They determined chemicals had spilled from a supersac [jumbo bag] while being transported to a truck and ignited when a forklift moved pallets around it”. “During the fire, over one million pounds of chemicals were burned. Following the fire, it was determined that the Carus warehouse needed to be torn down.” ( 2023 LaSalle chemical plant fire, Wikipedia )
#33
North Korea's New Destroyer Capsizes At Launch
#34
Truck Carriying Liquid Gas Overturns And Explodes In Santiago, Chile
#35
Shuangjiangkou, Sichuan Province, China Bridge Collapse
#36
A Fire In The Ancient Yongqing Temple Puts The Chinese Community On Alert
#37
Fire And Explosions Destroy Hardware Hypermarket In Moscow
#39
Changsha China Telecom Building On Fire
Andrew Tranter 1 hour ago
Did any of these burning buildings, eventually collapse into their own footprint? - asking for a friend.
#40
Bridge Collapse In Brazil
That’s all I yam 6 hours ago (edited)
Crazy. In the video that fish pointed out, it shows the bridge dropping out from underneath the motorcycle. It didn't look like it turned out well for the cyclist.
#42
A Massive Fire Has Occurred At Russia’s Perm Refinery From A Suspected Ukrainian Attack
#43
Chemical Explosion. Borculo Netherlands
That’s all I yam 5 hours ago
“An orange cloud of toxic chemicals billowed over the FrieslandCampina factory site in Borculo, the Netherlands, late Friday night [July 11, 2025] after two hazardous substances reacted inside a truck”. The incident began when nitric acid and hydrochloric acid – corrosive chemicals used to clean equipment – came into contact”. “No one suffered an injury in the incident, but it did force officials to evacuate the plant and closed roads as a precaution.” (Explosion Leads to Toxic Gas Cloud, ISS Source) Microsoft Copilot stated: “When these two strong acids mix, they generate nitrosyl chloride (NOCl) and chlorine gas (Cl₂), both of which are toxic. The orange coloration comes primarily from nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) — a byproduct formed when nitric oxide (NO) oxidizes in air.”
#44
Plane View Of Argentina Explosion
#45
Train Carrying Ethanol Derails In Fairmont, MN
That’s all I yam 6 hours ago
The derailment occurred on October 27, 2021. Ethanol is the alcohol we can drink. I wonder if anyone started to feel its effects.
#46
F-35b Crash At Fort Worth
#47
Dinner Cruise Boat Sounds 5 Short Blasts Before Ramming The Pier After Transmission Failure
#48
Building Explodes (Gas Leak) Where Woman Was Waiting To Do Job Interview. This Happened In Georgia
#49
Tractor-Trailer Strikes Retaining Wall And Spills Alfredo Sauce All Over I-55
#51
Spacex Starship 36 Explodes During Static Fire Test
#52
The Main Stage Of Tomorrowland On Fire
That’s all I yam 6 hours ago
“Tomorrowland is a large-scale annual electronic dance music festival held in Boom, Antwerp, Belgium”. “On 16 July 2025, two days prior to the opening day of the first weekend of that year's festival, the main stage was completely destroyed by a fire.” ( Tomorrowland (festival), Wikipedia )
#53
Newly Released Pictures As A Part Of The Preliminary Investigation Into The Nov 4 UPS MD-11f Crash Showing The Harrowing Moments Prior To The Accident
That’s all I yam 6 hours ago
“On November 4, 2025, the McDonnell Douglas MD-11 operating the flight suffered a separation of its left engine during its takeoff roll and crashed into an industrial area seconds after liftoff from the runway”. “The crash k****d all three crew members on board the aircraft, and an additional twelve people on the ground” ( UPS Airlines Flight 2976, Wikipedia ) This is an amazing series of photos. You can see the engine separating from the plane.
#55
Nitric Acid Leak At The Austin Powder Company In Vinton County, Ohio. About 3000 Gallons Leaked From A 5000 Gallon Tank
#56
In Kragujevac, Part Of The Road Collapsed Along With A Retaining Wall After The Investor Removed A Large Amount Of Earth To Build A Multi-Story Building
David Paterson 4 hours ago
Let me guess, they forgot to put functional drainage pipes behind the retaining wall?
#58
Tower Crane Collapses Due To The Construction Site Being Neglected For Over 10 Years
#59
Epic Failure Of Job Training In A Salmon Cannery In Alaska
#60
Car Fitted With Illegal Natural Gas Tank Explodes While Refueling At A Brazilian Fuel Station
#62
360 Digger On A Trailer Hits Overpass
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Cee Cee 8 hours ago
Lots of natural disasters rather than failure of structural or mechanical etc faults.
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Load More Replies... David Paterson 3 hours ago
The oil pipeline spill in the Amazon basin was negligible. First observed as oil in a creek by local fishermen, reported to western travellers, soon fixed. Keep in mind that crude oil contains fertilizer.
Cee Cee 8 hours ago
Lots of natural disasters rather than failure of structural or mechanical etc faults.
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Load More Replies... David Paterson 3 hours ago
The oil pipeline spill in the Amazon basin was negligible. First observed as oil in a creek by local fishermen, reported to western travellers, soon fixed. Keep in mind that crude oil contains fertilizer.
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