Greates Material Failures
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GREATEST ENGINEERING FAILURES
1. TWA Flight 800 disaster that occurred when the Boeing 747 exploded off Long Island on July 17, 1996. There has been an immense effort to find the cause of this accident. To this date, the specific cause of the disaster has not been determined, but the most probable cause involved frayed sensor wires in the fuel tank of this airliner.
2.Venezuelan Natural Gas Pipeline Rupture. A natural gas pipeline in Venezuela ruptured next to a major highway in September, 1993. The subsequent gas jet ignition resulted in an inferno that killed at least 50 people.
3. German high-speed passenger train that occurred on June 3, 1998. The train was travelling from Munich to Hamburg when it derailed just before 11 a.m. in Eschede, 35 miles north ofHanover. Post-crash reports focused on rattling that alarmed some passengers in the minutes before the crash of InterCity Express 884. The reason for the rattling now seems clear: investigators say that a broken wheel was the most likely cause of the disaster. Metal fatigue is suspect.
4. The Comet was the world's first commercial jet airliner. A design defect resulted in the structuralfailure of many Comets. The loss of Comet I G-ALYP lead to the finding of 'design defect' as the cause. Metallurgical failure analysis plays a critical role in determination of sequence of failure, and ultimately, in identification of the cause of aircraft accidents
5. The Chernobyl disaster was an accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 26, 1986 at 01:23 a.m., consisting ofan explosion at the plant and subsequent radioactive contamination of the surrounding geographic area. reactor 4 suffered a catastrophic steam explosion that resulted in a fire, a series of additional explosions, and a nuclear meltdown
6. Hindenburg was a German zeppelin. Together with its sister-ship LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin II it was the largest aircraft ever built. In its second year ofservice it was destroyed by a fire while landing at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey on May 6, 1937. A total of 36 people (about one third of those on board) perished in the accident, which was widely reported by film, photographic, and radio media.
7. Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737 suffered explosive decompression inflight, but landed safely. One stewardess was blown outof the plane and killed, several passengers were injured.
8. RMS Titanic was an Olympic class passenger liner that became infamous for its collision with an iceberg and dramatic sinking in 1912. The second of a trio of superliners, she and her sisters, RMS Olympic and HMHS Britannic, were designed to provide a three-ship weekly express service and dominate the transatlantic travel businessfor the White Star Line.[1] Built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland, Titanic was the largest passenger steamship in the world at the time of her sinking. During Titanic's maiden voyage (from Southampton, England; to Cherbourg, France; Queenstown (Cobh), Ireland; then New York), she struck an iceberg at 11:40 PM (ship's time) on Sunday evening April 14, 1912, and sank two hoursand forty minutes later, after breaking into two pieces, at 2:20 AM Monday morning April 15.
9. On March 28, 1979, the Unit 2 nuclear power plant on Three Mile Island suffered a partial core meltdown. This was the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power generating history.[1] Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station sits on an island of area 3.29 km² (814 acres) in theSusquehanna River in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg. Approximately 25,000 people lived within 5 miles of the island at the time of the accident
10. Bhopal disaster, In the morning hours of December 3, 1984, a holding tank with 43 tonnes of stored MIC overheated and released toxic heavier-than-air MIC gas mixture, which rolled along the ground through the surrounding streets killing...
1. TWA Flight 800 disaster that occurred when the Boeing 747 exploded off Long Island on July 17, 1996. There has been an immense effort to find the cause of this accident. To this date, the specific cause of the disaster has not been determined, but the most probable cause involved frayed sensor wires in the fuel tank of this airliner.
2.Venezuelan Natural Gas Pipeline Rupture. A natural gas pipeline in Venezuela ruptured next to a major highway in September, 1993. The subsequent gas jet ignition resulted in an inferno that killed at least 50 people.
3. German high-speed passenger train that occurred on June 3, 1998. The train was travelling from Munich to Hamburg when it derailed just before 11 a.m. in Eschede, 35 miles north ofHanover. Post-crash reports focused on rattling that alarmed some passengers in the minutes before the crash of InterCity Express 884. The reason for the rattling now seems clear: investigators say that a broken wheel was the most likely cause of the disaster. Metal fatigue is suspect.
4. The Comet was the world's first commercial jet airliner. A design defect resulted in the structuralfailure of many Comets. The loss of Comet I G-ALYP lead to the finding of 'design defect' as the cause. Metallurgical failure analysis plays a critical role in determination of sequence of failure, and ultimately, in identification of the cause of aircraft accidents
5. The Chernobyl disaster was an accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 26, 1986 at 01:23 a.m., consisting ofan explosion at the plant and subsequent radioactive contamination of the surrounding geographic area. reactor 4 suffered a catastrophic steam explosion that resulted in a fire, a series of additional explosions, and a nuclear meltdown
6. Hindenburg was a German zeppelin. Together with its sister-ship LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin II it was the largest aircraft ever built. In its second year ofservice it was destroyed by a fire while landing at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey on May 6, 1937. A total of 36 people (about one third of those on board) perished in the accident, which was widely reported by film, photographic, and radio media.
7. Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737 suffered explosive decompression inflight, but landed safely. One stewardess was blown outof the plane and killed, several passengers were injured.
8. RMS Titanic was an Olympic class passenger liner that became infamous for its collision with an iceberg and dramatic sinking in 1912. The second of a trio of superliners, she and her sisters, RMS Olympic and HMHS Britannic, were designed to provide a three-ship weekly express service and dominate the transatlantic travel businessfor the White Star Line.[1] Built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland, Titanic was the largest passenger steamship in the world at the time of her sinking. During Titanic's maiden voyage (from Southampton, England; to Cherbourg, France; Queenstown (Cobh), Ireland; then New York), she struck an iceberg at 11:40 PM (ship's time) on Sunday evening April 14, 1912, and sank two hoursand forty minutes later, after breaking into two pieces, at 2:20 AM Monday morning April 15.
9. On March 28, 1979, the Unit 2 nuclear power plant on Three Mile Island suffered a partial core meltdown. This was the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power generating history.[1] Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station sits on an island of area 3.29 km² (814 acres) in theSusquehanna River in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg. Approximately 25,000 people lived within 5 miles of the island at the time of the accident
10. Bhopal disaster, In the morning hours of December 3, 1984, a holding tank with 43 tonnes of stored MIC overheated and released toxic heavier-than-air MIC gas mixture, which rolled along the ground through the surrounding streets killing...
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