Name: What Went Wrong II
Uploaded: 2021
Description: Human and technical failures can lead to catastrophes that change the lives of thousands of people forever.

Human and technical failures can lead to catastrophes that change the lives of thousands of people forever.

The story of one of the worst air show disasters of all time, when a mid-air collision by the Italian air force’s display team sent burning planes into a massive crowd gathered to watch an air show at the U.S. airbase in Ramstein Germany. 70 people died and hundreds were injured.

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The story of one of the worst air show disasters of all time, when a mid-air collision by the Italian air force’s display team sent burning planes into a massive crowd.

The Ramstein Tragedy

The story of the worst rail disaster in Italian history, when on June 29th, 2009 a tanker train derails and then explodes in the seaside Tuscan town of Viareggio, killing 34.

The story of the worst rail disaster in Italian history, when on June 29th, 2009 a tanker train derails and then explodes in the seaside Tuscan town of Viareggio.

Viareggio Derailment Disaster

What happened to flight MH17, from Amsterdam to Kualalumpur? On July 17, 2014, was literally blown out of the sky over the Ukrainian town of Hrabove close to the front line in the Donetsk region where Russian-backed rebels clashed with the Ukrainian army.

What happened to flight MH17, from Amsterdam to Kualalumpur?

Flight MH17

A devastating fire in 1999 killed 39 people inside the tunnel that runs under Mont Blanc, between Italy?s Valle d?Aosta and France?s Chamonix. This is the story of why an engineering marvel turned out to be a deadly fire trap.

A devastating fire in 1999 killed 39 people inside the tunnel that runs under Mont Blanc, between Italy?s Valle d?Aosta and France?s Chamonix.

The Blaze in the Mont Blanc Tunnel

The July 24th, 2010 disaster at the Duisburg Love Parade electronic dance music festival that left 21 young people crushed to death changed the way crowds are handled forever. But could it have been prevented with better planning and event management?

The July 24th, 2010 disaster at the Duisburg Love Parade festival that left 21 young people crushed to death changed the way crowds are handled forever.

Duisburg Love Parade Disaster

A massive blast and the devastating shock wave that followed left more than 200 dead, 600 wounded and 300,000 without homes on August 4, 2020, after a warehouse of ammonium nitrate exploded in the port of Beirut, Lebanon.

On August 4, 2020, a warehouse of ammonium nitrate exploded in the port of Beirut, Lebanon leaving 200 people dead, 600 wounded and 300,000 without homes.