The Most Devastating Man-Made Catastrophes In Human History | Code Red - Disaster Compilation

I lost three friends and fellow Airmen when Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashed on takeoff due to a pilot error. August 16, 1987, was the worst day in my life, and I will live with the pain for the rest of my life. Karen Englert, age 28, USAF Staff Sergeant Charles Englert, age 27, USAFR Staff Sergeant Charles Englert Jr., age 14 months

An incredible comprehensive compiliation of the worst disasters in terms of loss of life, agonizing death & environmental damage with interviews of experts on the how & why. Excellent, with the lesser known details also given. 10/10

You know you’re old when you remember all of these accidents.

All my USCSB and NTSB video binging... has prepared me for this moment.

The Pan Am jet could not make a 45 degree turn on the third exit. This was omitted in this version.

I realize this documentary isn't about the tenirefe disaster exclusively, but my lord your depiction is far more generous to KLM and their poster boy pilot than any reliable documentary and historical record that I've come across.

The Columbia crash has had a large and important part of the story omitted here. Nasa KNEW the foam had hit the wing right at the start of the mission, as it filmed and reviewed each take off and the foam coming lose is easily spotted on the footage. They had had some strange readings from sensors in the area and even discussed things they could do to prevent an accident happening, such as get the crew to do a reentry favouring the undamaged side, or even a complete rescue mission, as Endeavour was almost ready to go on her own mission. But they chose to do nothing, content and arrogant in their own designs. The same arrogance that overrode the engineers they should have listened to in the Challenger disaster. Both tragedies were preventable, and I'd bet even now that same arrogance persists and they haven't learned from either. RIP to all those who lost their lives so unnecessarily.

The Concorde was the coolest looking plane ever made.

Halifax Explosion Dec 6, 1917. 2000 people instantly obliterated. 2500+ dead. 10,000+ injured. Thousands homeless, half the city was distroyed. Step,1- explosion. Step 2- shock,wave . Step,3 - tsunami step 4 - historic blizzard .

I seem to always come across videos like this days or hours before a flight for work and I fly at least 40 weeks out of the year for my job and by at least I mean 45 to 48. Either way once we get to 10,000 ft it's no worries.

Is not the first time Russia shutdown a passenger plane, they also did this to KAL007 in 1983 killing 269 innocent people.

In the 1970s, the Indian government initiated policies to encourage foreign companies to invest in local industry. Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) was asked to build a plant for the manufacture of Sevin, a pesticide commonly used throughout Asia. As part of the deal, India's government insisted that a significant percentage of the investment come from local shareholders. The government itself had a 22% stake in the company's subsidiary, Union Carbide India Limited

On Tenerife the Pan Am flight did not miss the 3rd exit, it was a turn which was physically impossible for a 747 to make and they had already passed the 1st exit with 3 remaining. Complicated by non-native English by the controller they were then instructed to take the 3rd exit which, by logical reasoning as shown in CVR playback they assumed had to be the 3rd remaining exit, or 4th overall and due to the overloading conditions and intrusive radio traffic had become imprudent to explicitly confirm repetitively, as they had already attempted explicit confirmation with the controller and the explanation was no clearer with his patience apparently running thin, it was thus reasonable to assume the instruction had to be for the only plausible 3rd exit being the 3rd remaining exit, the only one the 747 was actually capable of making and controllers must have some comprehension of commercial aircraft ground handling capabilities as a basic qualification. This no more contributed to the collision than using the runway for a taxi way to begin with. As the KLM flight had not received take-off clearance it made no difference whether the 747 had left the runway or not, it could just as easily have been another aircraft behind it entering the runway as a taxi way, since KLM took off without clearance on a runway being used as a taxi way. Saying the Pan Am flight shouldn't have been there is like saying female tourists wearing skirts contribute to kidnappings in third world countries.

Regarding the oil spill disasters, what happened to all the oil that got spilled during WWII as submarines torpedoed oil tankers supplying oil to the belligerents? Not all the tankers caught fire after being torpedoed.

Rip Boeing 747 after retirement 😢😭

MH 17 has been shot down by anti aircraft missile

Concourde was f'ing gorgeous. I will never wuit crying over it's loss, never

military should not fire until they have checked the aircraft

The Iranian air shoot down seems ridiculous to me. You can clearly see it’s not an f14. But I suppose I was not there .

U ever arrived at a party too early?