Examples of engineering failures such as the Hindenburg?

Posted by James on August 10, 2010 · 1 Comment 

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Question by Wes: Examples of engineering failures such as the Hindenburg?

I’m doing a project on “Most Extreme Engineering Failures” and I’m looking for some examples like the Hindenburg.

Best answer:

Answer by billrussell42
The most famous is the Tacoma Narrows Bridge

but there are hundreds of others. Check the link, there are 100 bridge disasters alone.

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Comments

1. Finner says:

   August 10, 2010 at 2:11 pm

   I believe it was one of the Mars probes that smashed into the surface because the engineers failed to do the conversion between metric and the imperial system of measurement.

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