William James famous engineering disasters

selected famous engineering disasters
these links comprise problem A1 of course 05-210 and will die off as students move on \| comments? \| updated 1998-10-29 \|Š1998 Wm James \|
transportation *fall 1999 projects* flight 592 ValuJet Sinking of Titantic Ford Pinto Failure E1A1 Boeing 747-200 plane crash in Amsterdam Sultana steam boat disaster of 1865 eletrical fires on McDonald Douglas DC-6's Ferry disaster Estonia in 1994 Design flaws of Embaer 120 airplane Apollo 1 Mission English Channel tunnel fire de Havilland Comet *fall 1998 projects* space Challenger shuttle ....another one ....another one Apollo 13 ....another one ....another one shipping Edmund Fitzgerald ....another one USS Thresher ....another one aerospace Hindenburg ....another one SwissAir flight 111 cars San Marino Grand Prix The Pinto (car) ....another one	structures *fall 1999 projects* Bay Bridge collapse of 1989 Ocean Ranger oil rig Collapse of L'Ambiance Plaza (16 story residential project in Bridgeport, Connecticut) Johnstown Dam disaster 1889 Second Narrows Bridge of Vancouver, B.C. New ideas about the Leaning Tower of Pisa Amusment park roller coaster rides Miamus River Bridge Victims of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel Walkway collapse,1981 Collapse of 1.4Km stretch of Nimitz Freeway (also known as Cypress Viaduct) in 1989 *fall 1998 projects* Leaning tower of Pisa Boston molasses bridges Tay bridge ....another one Hyatt Regency ....another one ....another one Quebec bridge ....another one Tacoma Narrows bridge dams Buffalo creek ....another one Omai tailings dam Three Gorges Dam ....another one ....another one St. Francis Dam	other *fall 1999 projects* Exxon Valdex oil spill Chelyabinsk nuclear disaster Hubble telescope Breast implants faulty swimming pool drain cover design Vitek Proplast-Teflon joint replacement disaster Piper Alpha oil Rig Explosion failure of the Bjork-Shiley monostrut heart valve Love Canal chemical mishap Uranium processing plant accident in Tokaimura, Japan Westray Mine disaster in Nova Scotia sinking of Venice *fall 1998 projects* Year 2000 bug ....another one Bopal disaster radiation Therac-25 ....another one ....another one ....another one Chernobyl Three Mile Island ....another one ....another one