Engineering failures supply a substantial amount to discuss, but also of interest are those quirky details of why something was designed a certain way. <BR><BR>An ...

Insight into Hurricane Katrina told by those who lived through it. How systemic failures from local and national government agencies helped throw the disaster into overdrive. How responses to national ...

FARGO — Flood disasters are almost invariably a combination of a natural "act of God" and an engineering failure. On May 31, 1889, an 11-inch rain following an already wet spring led to the ...

What happens when machines turn against us? Mechanical failures have caused plane crashes, ship sinkings, and even nuclear disasters. In this video, we break down some of the most infamous engineering ...

A task force investigating the collapse of an 11-storey building in Mombasa has blamed the disaster on engineering and regulatory failures. On April 9, a multi-agency assessment declared the building ...

Bad leaders, a complacent crew and maintenance cost-cutting by the Navy contributed to a series of engineering failures on the USS Boxer that prevented the ship from going to sea for more than one ...

When the Allies crossed France in June 1944, one of the big times during the European Theatre of World War II, they faced the ...

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