TOP 15 ENGINEERING FAILS - what were they thinking?

[@ernestmcgrayjr.1454]

You are showing John Hancock in Chicago, not the one in Boston that was once called the cardboard tower from boarding up windows when glass cracked or fell.

[@Bobrogers99]

I was about to comment the same.

[@joel455667]

How many is there

[@sheilaholmes996]

Chris Farley had an apartment in the Chicago one.

[@waynedesign]

The Hancock in Chicago simply goes by the name 875 N Michigan Ave at Hancock Company request since they’ve long left the building.

[@pjschmid2251]

@@waynedesign i’m sure Chicagoans are going to actually honor that request 😂 much like they’ve embraced the name Willis Tower… It’s still the Sears tower

[@enigmawyoming5201]

As a civil engineer, I MUST point out that every failure is not because of engineering. Contractors trying to earn more money will often build with cheaper materials, or do things like only putting in 4 bolts at a joint where 8 bolts were specified by the engineer. Manufacturers of materials will also produce substandard materials to ‘earn’ more money. As the saying goes, engineers don’t make any more money specifying lower than adequate designs, but contractors and material manufacturers DO make more money shaving corners. Another saying says “follow the money”. There is incentive ($) to actually build a structure poorly. The engineer gets paid the same no matter how it gets built.

[@Eagle-nq2mv]

It doesn’t say much for the city inspectors , bribed I suppose

[@Bobrogers99]

Not every one of these failures was due to engineering mistakes, but some involved engineering along with other factors.

[@she_sings_delightful_things]

💯

[@bertmeinders6758]

Bert Meinders I'm a mechanical engineer, and my experience of inspecting components outsourced to China or India has led me to the conclusion that both countries have been corrupt for so long that giving a customer exactly what is in the contract is seen as a sign of weakness (charging them for rework at New Zealand wage rates quickly improves their performance, though).

[@TimeSurfer206]

Regardless of the actions of the Cuntwreckers, distribuwhores, and "Skilled Poo Flingers" like me (Electrician), you do have a vested interest in making sure it was built the way you told them to. Regardless of who winds up paying the Liability Suits, your image is still on the line. But then, the ULTIMATE responsibility of oversight falls to THE DOLT WHO'S PAYING FOR IT.

[@cottawalla]

Skylab did fall on Western Australia, but to say it fell on populated areas is a little dramatic. WA is the size of Western Europe, with the population of a single medium-sized city mostly concentrated in and around Perth. The local council, where the pieces landed, decided to bring NASA'S stress levels, if they were elevated at all, back down to earth by sending them an official fine for littering.

[@nickbrutanna9973]

LOLZ.

[@SmallWonda]

Oh yes, I remember that! Hilarious!!

[@enigmawyoming5201]

That gave me the best laugh I had so far today!

[@Hope4Today9]

Not only that The design was intentional not an engineering fail... if there was any failure it was on congress cost cutting.

[@andrewholdaway813]

I remember, people were evacuated from potential impact sites by helicopter - in which (statistically) they were 100x more likely to be killed. 🤣

[@jamesrichardson381]

I still get irritated when I read someone talking about the twin towers (The World Trade Center) like they were a failure and placing some blame on them for collapsing and stuff like this let's people see what actual failures of buildings are. Far from being a failure in the engineering and building the towers actually held up remarkably well. A fully loaded 757 with full gas tanks of jet fuel hits pretty much any structure and it is coming down. The fact that they held together as long as they did and long enough for many to evacuate to safety is a beautiful thing. Especially the 2nd impact which took out basically 2 opposing corners of the building midway up. Talking about this brings back a lot and reminds us how stupid and short sided many people can be as they quickly forgot why we originally went to war over there.

[@abigailblackstock4928]

Usually, "engineering fails" aren't the engineer, but the "businessmen" in charge. Businessman builds something for profit, engineer builds for quality, businessman cuts corners, and the engineer gets saddled with the blame. Be careful who you work for. I've spent a fair bit of time getting away from people with bad business practices. So has my father who got the rare satisfaction of telling Ford to stuff their pride where the sun don't shine because their processes were screwing up one of his company's products.

[@FernandoBarajas-mx4pt]

It's crazy to think that there's still structures that were built 500 y.a.-1000 y.a. and some beyond that are still standing and yet with all the computers and materials used today even the most modern engineering fails. I mean roman concrete used in ancient viaducts is still holding up and used 1000 or more years after being built..

[@maliausher3447]

Cheap materials and low budgets. People always trying to find the lower quality and cheaper products with fast time lines.

[@roelheijmans]

10:55 number 8, it starts with the John Hancock building in Chicago, but all of a sudden we are in Boston. Two things got messed up there 😉

[@BirchBarlow]

Having dined on the 95th floor, I was alarmed to hear the building only has 60 stories ! 😂

[@RavenFilms]

He said Boston twice, but used footage that clearly says Chicago

[@oldmanuserphan]

This channel is kinda known for having really bad factual quality control, and they never go back and correct things so their vids are littered with misleading and nonfactual information.

[@RonaldSavilla]

Thank you, I was very confused looking at a building that I knew was in Chicago but they were saying Boston. Then suddenly they start showing the other glass covered structure that I was not familiar with and it all made sense.

[@wewinnew]

Excited, surprised, scared - this video took me through a whirlwind of emotions. Catastrophic failures are no joke!

[@andrewholdaway813]

Your comment however...🤣

[@canisqmajoris]

The video is showing the John Hancock Center in Chicago, which is 100 stories tall and not the building in question. Eventually it does depict the correct building, the John Hancock Tower in Boston.

[@mclovin6829]

When glass falls off a building, this is called glass falling. You learn something every day...

[@georgebreitwieseriii2092]

Who can remember such complex technical jargon? Hah ,I was ready to be enlightened by some cool term and instead wanted to slap the narrator.

[@chrislopes994]

Not to mention narrator makes his own stories up About bhopal gas tragedy

[@hjkaye]

Definetly a mixup on the Hancock tower segment. First photos were not the Boston building.

[@RavenFilms]

11:46 In Boston huh? It even says in your footage that it’s Chicago.

[@georgemccune2923]

They clearly did not double check source photos and videos used. Some of the footage and pictures shown was the John Hancock Building in Chicago and some was the John Hancock Building in Boston. The glass fell from the one in Boston. Both were renamed a while back as the naming rights with Hancock Financial expired in Chicago and the Lease was up in Boston if I remember correctly as to the reasons.

[@reallyseriously7020]

Tacoma Narrows colapse. I've seen the fotage a hudred times and it never gets old. Just stunning.

[@vfcs]

Engineering failures? Several of these had nothing to do with the engineering but rather management decision failures. Ford Pinto for example.

[@cturdo]

Yes, tank placement was not the issue, but the $11 upgrade was adopted in future years after management decided to hush it up.

[@christopherbedford9897]

The "minor rear-end collision" sequence at 5:14 was a SATIRICAL JOKE from one of those Zanuck/Ambrahams/Zucker movies like Police Squad or Naked Gun. The Jeep barely touches the Pinto but the setup tells you exactly what's going to happen, and it does. The car might genuinely have been a total death trap, but using this as an illustration of the failure, especially after multiple views of a legit crash test in which there's no conflagration at all, somewhat detracts from your credibility.

[@urieaaron]

Thank you, came here to say that, but you said it better than I would have.

[@richardbell7678]

It comes from the 1984 film "Top Secret" The mechanism for the horrific fires of the Pinto was the fuel tank being compressed between the rear bumper and the differential housing causing fuel to be sprayed beneath the hot engine and/or exhaust system and the fuel igniting after being heated past the flash point. A crash test of a rear end collision that did not have the Pinto's engine running might not ignite the furl.

[@bertmeinders6758]

@@richardbell7678 Bert Meinders I have owned 18 cars, and at least 10, including my current VW Passat, had their fuel tank mounted under the rear load space, just like the Pinto. It's a very common location, so why don't other cars burn when similarly mistreated? Some other engineering fault, perhaps, like the PVC fuel lines Ford liked at that time?

[@johfc]

@@bertmeinders6758 There seems to be some misguided assumption that a fuel tank is some kind of ticking time bomb. I have witnessed a crash with a fuel tank impacted and the fire emergency responders were not concerned...

[@RailRide]

​@richardbell7678 As soon as the video mentioned the Pinto debacle, I was anticipating the use of that movie clip. As the military truck chasing the protagonists was slamming on its brakes, the camera zooms in on the Pinto nameplate on the rear of the (stationary) car, so the audience knew an explosion was imminent, the sight gag being that the truck barely nudged the Pinto's bumper, prompting it to explode.

[@garymiller5937]

Absolutely terrible disasters. There was one dog that lost its life in the Tacoma bridge collapse. Let's not forget it. 😢😢😢

[@r.j.powers381]

Yes. For me the loss of a pet is indeed more than a casualty. Thank you for posting.

[@DaleDix]

Someone tried to save it but it kept biting them so they had to run and got off just in time.

[@Ulrich.Bierwisch]

It was an American dog, so this qualifies the disaster to be number one and much higher that the Bhopal disaster, that only killed people in India. The bridge also wasn't that much of a mistake. It was a lesson that had to be learned sooner or later. In Bhopal, they learned how to avoid punishment for thousands of dead and hundred-thousands of injured people.

[@DaleDix]

@@Ulrich.Bierwisch Bhopal killed a lot of livestock.

[@abc-wv4in]

I'm glad you posted this. I did too, before I saw this post. Very sad about the dog, who had no say in being on the bridge.

[@normfarris3430]

I remember the Hancock tower mess. At one point, it was called the Plywood Palace, because of the plywood patches all over the outside of the building.

[@craigcook9715]

The Citicorp Center in NYC should at least get honorable mention. If it weren't for a student reviewing the plans, it could have been a really huge disaster.

[@ydenneki]

5:14 The scene from 1984's "Top Secret" with Val Kilmer, one of the best spoof films ever made (along with the Airplane and Hot Shots duologies).

[@GavKuplinski]

The Ford Pintos gas tank issue was not where the gas tank was placed. Plenty of cars had the same placement. The problem was the inside of the tank would puncture during a hard rear collision. By the time the issue was rectified by Ford, which it WAS eventually, nobody wanted one.

[@alexismartinez-vn6hd]

why did you show the John Hancock Building in Chicago?

[@alunchurcher7060]

One big problem has been overlooked with this video and thats, they get the money to build something but then think it will not require long term maintainance and this maintainance is either patched up or left and covered up. You can build miles and miles of roads but they will require regular maintenance which increaes in cost constantly.

[@johfc]

This seems to be a common problem and politicians seem to often be reluctant to fund operating (maintenance) budget for that.

[@cliffontheroad]

@@johfc Building new things (w/ tax $$) gets them praise and re-elected. Maint only gets under-table $$ money so there is less of that. Yet, they resurface perfectly good highways to keep the $$ flowing. Remember the "our bridges are falling down" which got a lot of attention and minimum taxpayer revolts? Alumchurcher is right too.

[@canisqmajoris]

Artz Pedregal was NOT a welcome addition to the neighborhood, and it's worth mentioning that the rooftop garden is suspected to be the issue. The part that failed was a cantilevered section; the hillside had nothing to do with it.

[@georgemccune2923]

GOOOOOOOOOOOOO Boston!!!!! 3 spots on this list.

[@user-ye1go6hw9r]

Hancock building - thats Chicago, not boston. Your footage even shows the word "Chicago" while you say Boston.

[@netgnostic1627]

The Bhopal situation was more nuanced than that. Union Carbide was prevented by (corrupt?) local officials from having actual authority over it. They couldn't force the local owners to spend the funds necessary for badly needed maintenance and repairs - which was the eventual cause of the disaster.

[@sirridesalot6652]

A guy in his car on The Tacoma Narrows bridge escaped and ran to safety but unfortunately his do did not. That bridge was also called Galloping Gerty.

[@paulmoffat9306]

I owned a '74 Pinto WAGON version - no issues at all, and YES, it was once rear ended and NO FIRE. The reason, was the wagon frame was longer and gave more room for the fuel tank. Had it for 8 years, and traded it in for a new car, as had started to rust through quite badly. Not all Pintos were bad.

[@andrewholdaway813]

Fuel tanks behind the rear axle were the norm back in the (pinto) day.

[@johnl5316]

"Despite its horrific portrayal in Pinto Madness, published by Mother Jones magazine in its September/October 1977 issue, later fatality rate data revealed the Pinto to be on par with other subcompacts of the day and certainly not the threat it was purported to be in both print and broadcast media."

[@tardismole]

So. You mention the Ford Pinto, but ignored the Austin Mini Metro, which had a very similar design flaw. As a survivor of the latter, I find that as negligent as the manufacturer who ignored the flaw by blaming the two million owners instead. And then there's the omission of the Space Shuttles Columbia and Challenger, which surely have to be the most well known engineering failures in NASA's history.

[@tesmith47]

The NASA accidents were not engineering fails, but ADMINISTRATION FAILS

[@abc-wv4in]

Well, in fairness engineers told NASA the o-rings weren't safe in temperatures that low, but their pleas were ignored by NASA's brass.

[@tardismole]

@@abc-wv4in Exactly my point.

[@martykarr7058]

Remember though, that the Skylab program relied on leftover parts from Project Apollo.

[@carterdjohnson9673]

The Pinto was one of Ford's best selling cars for its time, even with it's flaws! Over three million Pintos were produced over its ten-year production run, outproducing the combined totals of its domestic rivals, the Chevrolet Vega and the AMC Gremlin. Ford's analysis was correct they made just under $30,000,000,000.00 at $10,000.00 per unit sales, $50,000,000.00 in law suits One great story my uncle who was Henry Ford Sr. valet, told was, one day Henry was at Fairlane Towne Center in Dearborn, Detroit ran into a lady on a Pinto in the parking lot. He just told her it was his fault and said he would take care of everything. So, he had her follow him to a Ford dealership and told her she could have any car on the lot. The lady tried to select another Pinto, Henry said " No mama" and made her get a Lincoln Continental like his, uncle loved working for him! Of course hindsight, Henry probably knew about the Pinto lawsuits too.😂

[@Hope4Today9]

Henry Ford Sr. Died in 1947. Henry Ford Jr. Died in 1987. Nice story, wrong Henry.

[@jorgecruzseda7551]

Bhopal was horrible, and Union Carbide washed its hands

[@tylerdurden4006]

Fun fact, union carbide was also the company in that huge explosion that killed 11 firefighters in texas I think it was...

[@koriw1701]

And Union Carbide still exists thanks to a good deal of money shuffling and asset-hiding, those bastards.

[@mrcryptozoic817]

Skylab was the least of all the worries/failures in this compendium. It wasn't a disaster. If it's going to crash to earth, that's not the worst place to crash. While congress doomed it via cost cutting, it was pretty well handled. And you can't forget that the orbit dictates all the potential crash sites. I'm old enough to remember it.

[@mikeh.7499]

good pace.good narration. not insulting our intelligence. interesting subjects. dang I have been throwing overboard any channel that even sniffs of A.I. life's short and these guys aren't wasting my time.hey thank you.😮

[@bettyswallocks6411]

And then there’s the forthcoming wave of problems generated by the cost-cutting use of RAAC ( lightweight aerated concrete), much of which is still in situ and well past its sell-by date.

[@Peo_Sahlin]

A lot of cars have the fuel tank behind the rear axel. It was really very common.

[@TimeSurfer206]

Yes, but the Pinto's was basically a part of the Bumper, itself.

[@ernsailor9041]

Loads of cars had the fuel tank at the back.

[@georgemccune2923]

Yes but the Pintos rear arched up a substantial amount after the rear axle and the tank hung lower than the bumper and was easily hit. Google a photo of a Pinto from the rear as if you are seat in a vehicle behind one and you see the back hatch, the bumper and under the bumper several inches of sheet metal more often than not painted body color, directly behind that sheet metal sat the fuel tank. Most normal height front car bumpers of the time would just got under the bumper and hit the tank directly and compounding the issue was the Pinto had a very small dainty rear bumper in its first few years till Ford beefed it up as a band-aid. But yea once you look at a picture of the early ones and see the metal under the rear bumper and realize the fuel tank is right on the other side and these cars were unibody and did not have a full frame and you will see why it became a problem. Yes you are correct lots of cars had rear fuel tanks but most had a several inches or almost a foot spacing away from a point of direct impact.

[@ernsailor9041]

@@georgemccune2923 The Triumph Dolomite has the tank right at the left back side not even an inch from the rear panel and the bumper was attached to the weak sheet metal, it's also unibody.

[@georgemccune2923]

@@ernsailor9041 I have never seen one of those. I was not meaning to come across as i was arguing with you, sorry if i did. I am bored crazy at work with another 6 hours to go. not sure really what i was going for, perhaps i miss read your comment thinking you were saying lots of cars had rear tanks also and they did not blow up so the pinto shouldn't either, lol. either way it is my bad. Also we can not forget the death trap of the gm trucks that had the saddle bag fuel tanks. My favorite that i have personally rode in and questioned my survival is the 1928-31 Model A. The fuel tank was the cowl, the windshield base attached to it and it was also the dashboard.. basically like riding with a 5 gallon fuel tank in your lap. my best friend had one for several years fully restored and i always just wondered everytime we came to a stop and you could hear the fuel slosh about how many people burned up in those things.

[@ernsailor9041]

@@georgemccune2923 You're good, I was just talking about cars and their odd ideas over the years, some things get designed without much thought it seems. I owned a Dolomite for many many years. Jaguars had a fuel tank in each rear quarter panel so you get twice the fun if rear ended and fun if hit on either side. 👍

[@Telekenesis123]

The BP oil disaster - that servant Don Cheney, among others, knew that the well was going to blow and sold their stock in the company around just before it went public. Him and other volunteers, destined for their chosen destination, profited in this lifetime from the disaster, but thankfully will inherit their chosen inheritance. As they deemed to others, may it be deemed to them, but with mercy; because no one of us can be so cruel. By their own choosing they sold themselves, even by trying to sell others. True to their profession of being a ...red light worker.

[@ewaf88]

You should do a video on our new Highspeed line called HS2. It's turning into an expensive disaster. Costs had risen from £55 billion to £105 billion so they've actually had to reduce its length so it now won't serve Northern towns and won't be going into the centre of London

[@stirgy4312]

Hey, the Simple History dude! Nice!

[@blackmanxrjc]

obviously... that's not the Boston Hancock Tower they are showing, it's the Chicago Hancock building....Fun fact, it was referred to locally as "the worlds tallest toothpick" as the windows were replaced with plywood. The issue was a failt in securing the windows too tightly to the structure, introducing stress to the glass. When a catestrophic crack was about to occur, a small "J-shaped" crack would occur in the corner of the window. The windows were then removed and replaced (first with plywood, later with replacement windows). You used to be able to get a "defect window" for about $20, made great glass coffee tables.

[@gerardweatherby3941]

There was a lot more to the mars climate orbiter than what’s described. There were overlooked indications for months something was off.

[@mini4x]

Basically, every car built for about 100 years had the fuel tank where ethe Pinto did, a ton of cars today still do.

[@2dronetek2]

There was nothing "miraculous" about there being no casualties in the Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse. It was moving long before it actually collapsed and there wasn't a single person who would have been stupid enough to set foot on that bridge while it was moving like that.

[@Eric-qo8vv]

Traces of the molasses can still be found today if you dig down about a foot and in the summer it can still be smelled

[@hibaakaiko3888]

I remember watching a documentary about the start of the big dig mega project. I always wondered what happened to that thing!

[@JamesSmith-qj9kd]

Mexico City: If corruption was an airplane , Mexico would be an airport......

[@chezsnailez]

Don't think Skylab really deserves placement on this list. The reason Skylab's orbit had decayed so rapidly was an unexpected increase in solar activity that created enough drag on the space station as to push it out of a stable orbit...

[@DustinMcallister]

There was an actual fatality on that last video where the bridge broke itself apart I actually watched documentary on that and there was a dog left in the car

[@aodhganmerrimac]

The windows falling out of the Hancock tower was just the tip of the iceberg. it actually could have fallen over on it's narrow edge into the South End under the right circumstances. This fact was kept from Bostonians as extensive work, including the addition of a large concrete counter weight on one of the upper floors was installed.

[@janhansen554]

Tretten brigde was a brand new type of brigde (steel and wood construction). Never been used in any other countries before, i wonder why???lol. Talkiing about removing the other 14 bridges which is build in Norway.

[@arnesahlen2704]

27:00 Tacoma Bridge had 'waved' for months! (nicknamed Galloping Gertie) just up-down. That new twisting did it in. A car was abandoned; dog in it bit a would-be rescuer so was left and died.

[@abc-wv4in]

Should've left the car door open. And the idiot who owned the car shouldn't have brought the dog to begin with!

[@1skyofrog]

The information about the blowout preventor is not correct. It had no operational nor design flaws. Cameron, the manufacturer, was removed from the lawsuits over the accident.

[@cturdo]

Skylab was a space station on the cheap, and as such, it and the crews performed well. Remember, this was the 1970s, but to say there was no plan to recover it is not accurate.

[@BatFang-s8y]

Three in Boston? I think I will never live there. Unless one of those is actually the Chicago one mentioned in these comments.

[@olli1068]

Interesting that the - unmanned - Ariane 5 mission is mentioned, while - manned - Apollo 13 mission is not. Is that because they made it back to earth? 🤔 Talking about American space flight missions: Where are the Space Shuttles Columbia and Challenger?

[@maestroh2986]

The Mars Rover debacle can only happen with the involvement of one of 3 nations: United States, Liberia, and Myanmar

[@bertmeinders6758]

Bert Meinders The persistent attachment to the unnecessarily complicated Imperial system of weights and measures, lacking interoperability between science and engineering, causes headaches elsewhere too. Our CNC machining programmes supplied to an American licensee came back with the complaint: "Feed rates too high - tools keep breaking". The "problem"was that the licensee 's software automatically replaced the command G21 (mm per minute) with G20 (inches per minute).

[@Handle1969]

How come the John Hancock segment shows the CHICAGO building then cuts to Boston building..

[@eugenebowen-t1x]

Way to go editing on the John Hancock building. You had one job.

[@goslonomo]

Lots of mistakes in the stock photos, but a fun watch.

[@bruceblunderfield5431]

Name me just one Engineer or Architect that was held responsible for any of these non-accidents!

[@user-um7dn3pd8l]

Yo..rand mcnally...since when is Boston on lake michigan?

[@benjaminlorenz2181]

In the past we had alot of small cars with its petrol tank under the trunk in europe. The problems were more like the other tank-like built 2-3ton cars at that time in the US. They smashed everything in their path.

[@westhillswood51]

The Pinto story is one of cost/benefit more than poor engineering. 3.2 million Pintos were sold and a gazillion miles driven in them. A relative few fires happened but garnered big headlines when Ford execs were shown to know a $2 part could have fixed the issue but they chose not to implement the change. The Pinto (failure) story is more a cautionary tale of how the media can corrupt actual events.

[@papamike9866]

About the pinto. I remember pretty much of ALL American passenger cars in the 70's had the fuel tank in the rear under the trunk behind the rear axle.

[@LyinDogFacedPonyCommenter]

To be fair, almost all vehicles in the 70s and prior had the fuel tank placed behind the rear axle

[@mipamat5804]

The Mars Climate Orbiter crash was blamed on mixing "Imperial" units with metric units, this same type of problem resulted in the Hubble Space Telescope producing blurred images until it was fitted with correcting lens by the Space Shuttle team.

[@Thomas-l6g8w]

Norway has Circle K convenience stores?

[@machendave]

Mexico City is built on a reclaimed lake, it’s said to be like building on jelly.

[@knutholt3486]

Most often, the engineer has not done eny calculation mistake. Instead he has been pressed to accept a certain probability of failur due to external forces to save costs.

[@KK-eh2gm]

John Hancock tower - Chixago, Illinois

[@TompaDee]

I have driven many times over tretten bridge with my 4 ton worktruck.

[@bloodvypa783]

I love this series, it's eye-opening, however, most of the problems are due to badly built, cheap manufacturing, cheap materials & other cost-cutting procedures'. This therefore is unfair to be blamed on purely engineering issues. Still a great series though.

[@TimeSurfer206]

As a Construction Electrician, the Engineering and Architectural firms have a VESTED INTEREST in making sure -Cuntwreckers- CONTRACTORS, -DistribuWhores- err, DISTRIBUTORS, and us "Highly trained, skilled and educated Poo Flingers" ALL "doo" our jobs well. THEIR NAME IS ON THE BUILDING TOO. But, in many places, as long as "The RIGHT people" make money, "It's all Kewl, Brah, only peasants died." _See:_ "Tofu Dreg Construction." And the Millenium Tower seems to be emitting that odor, too. A new Meme Category: "Explain your trade badly." "I'm an Electrician. I throw shi* at walls and MAKE it stick." Oh, and in closing, it really doesn't matter who winds up paying the lawsuits at the end, the ULTIMATE responsibility of oversight falls to THE DOLT WHO'S PAYING FOR IT.

[@bob456fk6]

The Tacoma Narrows Bridge is a "relatively" minor engineering disaster. Expensive and embarrassing but at least no human lives were lost. A dog in a car on the bridge was killed. This was designed at a time when they didn't have computers to model structures and they tried to cut corners without a thorough analysis.

[@BasementEngineer]

The problem encountered by the Tacoma Narrows Bridge was recognized by Engineer Roebling when he designed the Brooklyn Bridge in the mid 1880's. His bridge was completed in 1883 or so and is still in use. Roebling made notes that the inclination in designing a suspension bridge was to make the bridge deck insufficiently stiff. This has nothing to do with the live load strength of the bridge, but impacts its resistance to deformation by external forces such as high winds. Roebling was correct, and his recommendations were ignored by SOME subsequent bridge designers. Other bridges have encountered this wind flutter problem also, and remedial work was carried out to stop this fluttering.

[@gramaseetharaman7862]

Human Engineering limitations are explored only after failures.

[@somebodypeculiar]

You need someone to think about your descriptions. For the Treton bridge collapse, you said of the drivers crossing when it happened, "the GROUND beneath them gives way". Ground? They were on a bridge above a river! Then there is the Mars Climate Orbiter that was described as "a contributor of orbital pollution", though orbit is exactly what it did not achieve and never did.

[@adammartin4906]

Umm why are they showing the John Hancock Building in Chicago then saying it's the Boston one? Creator, of this video Top Fives please fix this Failure Thank You!!!

[@dennis3180]

This site doesn’t know where the john hancock building is. It’s not in Boston and it’s got 94 floors and I never heard of pieces of glass falling out of it

[@PintjensBert]

This 11:06 is not the same building as this one 12:03 Right?? And there is a timestamp missing around 12:36

[@neelzbezuidenhout467]

Holy shit Boston has a problem 😅

[@marshajacobberger1646]

It's interesting how this picture you're showing of bridge/highway collapse has the men all dressed the same as well as everyone is standing in the exact same position on both sides of the highway.

[@haydendegrow945]

For the record, I'm willing to excuse your mess up with the Hancock Tower.... But you also forgot to mention the Kansas City Hyatt collapse. This was EASILY top ten worthy, and was a disaster WAITING to happen. Make a second video about this and show Hyatt collapse

[@dennislink7957]

The Pintos concept of putting the gas tank in the rear was actually standard practice then and always has been. Where else do you put a tank holding 15 gallons of fluid. Very few cars do not have the fuel tank in the rear of the car.

[@frederickschulkind8431]

The Quebec cantilever bridge collapsed during construction in 1907 causing about 80 fatalities (uncertain number) and then had the center span fall during its lift in 1916 for 11 more.

[@BasementEngineer]

True! The designer of the original bridge was an American who would not listen to any criticism of his work, even though he was told that the bottom chords of the cantilever beams (the diamond shaped structures) were beginning to buckle. The second failure was an accident. One of the hoisting shackles on the 5,000 ton centre section failed when this was hoisted into position. Non Destructive Examination of this shackle would likely have prevented such failure, but NDE was not available at that time.

[@olgamartin5884]

These homes are built base on the DESIGN of a NETTLE or WASP NEST, including the home of PIGEON COUP. The wasp or nettles are very smart especially the PIGEONS because after a while they abandoned the nest and coup.

[@Brandtphenom]

8:50 the fact that $600,000 is now equivalent to 9 million is a testament to our shitty currency. Inflation must stop.

[@fonziebulldog5786]

Many cars by the time like Pinto who had the petrol tank in the same place.

[@vazjc]

Did you just say Bostonians to the John Hancock Tower in Chicago? You need to fix the John Hancock one.

[@abcdef-qk6jf]

Galopping Gertie never grows old...

[@colinmccarthy7921]

There is a saying,What can happen,will happen. The Design,Materials,Specifications,Etc.,are of the Utmost Importance. Weather Conditions,Earthquakes,Etc.,are out of our control. I believe in leaving no stone unturned.What ever we do in Life, we cannot have 100% Perfection.We can work towards it. I am an Engineer.

[@romeoslover817]

Lockheed Martin should take this one in the shorts. Common sense states to use the metric system;as the Imperial system is used by very few countries in general. All science oriented projects I am aware of use the Metric system

[@cliffontheroad]

Hubble telescope lens was ground to specs but with the wrong unit / mismatch. They had to make, and fly up, a correction when flaw was realized.

[@Brian-uy2tj]

Ford did do a program to make the Pinto safer. They came up with a urethane liner for the gas tank that was virtually puncture proof, they added anti lock brakes, air bags which made it the safest car in the US........ and then they cancelled the Pinto all together. Like what GM did with the Corvair.

[@dlewis9760]

I'll have whatever you are smoking. Anti lock brakes and air bags? Give examples. You won't find any. The Pinto's production ended in 1980. Ford had an experimental fleet of cars in 1971. EXPERIMENTAL. The 1984 Topaz offered air bags as optional equipment. Ford offered Anti Lock brakes on the Thunderbird and Lincoln Continental in 1969. Standard in 1971. Expensive cars. Never offered on a Pinto that was built to a price.

[@Brian-uy2tj]

@@dlewis9760

[@SGliderGuy]

Your report on the pinto is flawed. The first image and many others depicted a 1974 or later model. Staring in 1974, Ford discontinued the Pinto chassis and stretched the body over the Mustang II. A much-needed safer design. Most of the videos of the cars catching fire were staged

[@maestroh2986]

True, the big explosion was from the comedy movie Top Secret, starring the delightful Val Kilmer

[@robertheinkel6225]

Ironically, when the Pinto was first built, all the manufacturers put the gas tank in the rear of the car, and used the top of the tank as the bottom of the trunk. During the trial, Ford brought in the back halves of all the other car companies, showing they were doing the same thing.

[@AutoCrete]

From Paul Harvey's 'The Rest Of The Story' the engineer who placed the gas tank lost his father (at age 11 or 12) to a gas tank explosion in a Model T or Model A where the gas tank was in front of the wind shield. He schooled as an engineer and finally got a chance to locate a gas tank. In his mind was his fathers death so for safety he placed the gas tank as far away from the driver as possible. We know the rest of the story.

[@blindandwatching]

Deepwater Horizon was management failure.

[@bob_the_bomb4508]

@@maestroh2986”This is NOT Mel Torme…”

[@diane1390]

I remember the Ford Pinto. My late father bought one off of my late husband's aunt. It was a stick shift and my father had mechanical problems with that and sold the car.

[@tylerdurden4006]

Only america could have headlines like "dozens killed in molasses flood that wipes out neighborhood" 😂

[@chezsnailez]

Meanwhile, in Wales a hill of coal slag would squisherate a primary school in the town of Aberfan...

[@tylerdurden4006]

@@chezsnailez that has absolutely nothing to do with americans drowning in thick syrup...lmfao

[@steavo78]

5:11 wow that’s interesting because not that long ago jeep made the same mistake years after this car was built. People were getting rear ended and then burned to death when the rear mounted fuel tanks were exploding. You figure jeep would have learned from the mistake of ford.

[@kennethjackson7574]

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a promising new contender for The Cheesiest PhotoShopped Thumbnail of the Month!

[@robertfolkner9253]

The Pinto was originally designed with an internal bladder inside the gas tank and with airbags. Tests were done with both of the items installed and as a result there were no explosions and the test dummies were undamaged. If Ford had installed the equipment, it would have been the safest car on the road.

[@oh8wingman]

You are absolutely correct here. The bladder was removed due to it's cost. Another contributor to the problem was the filler neck. There was no allowance for any movement so if you were rear ended and your tank shifted at all, the filler neck would tear loose allowing fuel and fuel vapour to escape. If there was any source of ignition nearby, boom, up went your pinto.