/r/CatastrophicFailure
Videos, gifs, or aftermath photos of machinery, structures, or devices that have failed catastrophically during operation.
Videos, gifs, articles, or aftermath photos of machinery, structures, or devices that have failed catastrophically during operation, destructive testing, and other disasters.
Catastrophic Failure refers to the sudden and complete destruction of an object or structure, from massive bridges and cranes, all the way down to small objects being destructively tested or breaking.
Posting Rules
- No joke submissions/memes
- Titles must only be informative/descriptive and include a date, do not editorialize
- Avoid posting mundane/every day occurrences like car accidents
- No compilations or montages
- Always be respectful
- If the only notable thing in your submission is injury/death, it belongs in another subreddit
Flair Rules
- If your submission depicts people dying, you must apply the "Visible Fatalities" flair to your post and tag it "NSFW"
- If your submission depicts people visibly being seriously injured, you must apply the "Visible Injuries" flair to your post and tag it "NSFW"
- If your submission depicts a situation where people were killed, but those people are not directly visible you must apply the "Fatalities" flair to your post (eg. the Hindenburg Disaster, or a plane crash)
- If your submission does not require one of those tags, you should pick any of the other flairs to describe what type of failure occurred
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Dashcam footage capturing the moment a truck falls into a sinkhole, about 40 hours later the sinkhole expanded to a width of 40 meters and a depth of 15 meters (Yashio, Saitama, Japan) - January 28, 2025
15:20 UTC
Motorcycle bows up engine, includes look inside engine. Date unknown.
02:08 UTC
Aeroflot Flight 9983 was a Antonov An-124 that crashed into a residential area in Turin, Italy killing 4 people on October 8th, 1996.
17:51 UTC
Synched CVRs of the 2002 Überlingen mid-air collision which took the lives of 71.
17:42 UTC
American Airlines passenger jet collides with military helicopter while landing in D.C. January 29, 2025
American Airlines has sent an updated statement and says 60 passengers and four crewmembers were on the flight, which started to Wichita and was about to land in Washington, D.C.
05:35 UTC
The last words of the pilots of Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 On 29 September 2006 as their Boeing 737-800 struck an Embraer Legacy 600 midair over Brazil.
03:53 UTC
Video shows 2 aircraft colliding over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. - January 29, 2025
02:34 UTC
Police skips lowered gate, gets hit by train 25/01/2025
18:35 UTC
LPG tanker blast in Multan, Pakistan 27/1/2025
16:45 UTC
Onboard footage of the Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker 50 Years of Victory sailing directly into a Russian cargo ship in the Kara Sea. 26/01/2025
06:16 UTC
F-35 fighter jet crashes at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska. Pilot ejected - 28th January 2025
01:02 UTC
Old Water Tower slated for demolition nearly collapses onto a house after demolition prep cable snaps - January 28, 2025
21:38 UTC
While the rescue team was pulling a truck out of a sinkhole, a new sinkhole opened up, forcing the rescue operation to be suspended(Yashio, Saitama, Japan) - January 29, 2025
16:26 UTC
A 10-meter-deep sinkhole on the road engulfed a 4-ton truck; rescue operations underway(Yashio, Saitama, Japan) - January 28, 2025
05:55 UTC
Fall of crane on gymnasium. Arica - Chile - January 25, 2025
23:45 UTC
A neighbour's doorbell camera captured the moment a house in Bethel, Ohio exploded. Fire officials said two people died in the explosion. November 19th 2024.
By the next day, it was estimated that around 20 to 30 cats were found dead at the scene. Around 15 cats were taken to area vets, but only three or four ultimately survived. Officials found a dead dog at the scene as well.
02:54 UTC
Long March 3B rocket stage lands in a residential area. 2025-01-23
20:02 UTC
4 story residential building collapsed spontaneously in Konya, Turkey. 24.01.2015
18:26 UTC
results of a turbo failure. Unknown date.
23:42 UTC
Carport at my parents’ shop/home office collapsed yesterday under the weight of the snow…
But the camera still works! LOL
Yesterday we got almost a foot of snow in my part of Louisiana. This is now the second highest snow fall we’ve gotten since the highest recorded 14 inches in 1895. Mind you, we are 30 miles due north of the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. This carport has survived numerous powerful hurricanes in the 10-15 years that it stood. But a foot of snow did it in. Luckily dad’s business was closed for the day and he wasn’t out there when it happened (he had been under there earlier that morning though).
Truck and pontoon are probably totaled unfortunately.
16:34 UTC
Explosion: Fatal Gas Leak December 23, 2024
13:21 UTC
Royal Yak Casino burned to the ground, Mexico City, 16th January 2025
"Civil Defence director Roy Navarrete told N+ Mas News television that the fire started at the Royal Yak casino possibly due to a short circuit."
23:32 UTC
Warehouse fire which burned for several days in Eastleigh, UK in October 2003. Smoke could be seen from around 15 miles away which stretches to Portsmouth, Isle of Wight and the outskirts of Andover. Reported cause of fire was a pallet falling over.
22:34 UTC
Sinking of the Ex-German Battleship Ostfriesland (1921)
22:25 UTC
1/18/25 Auburn, WA: Truck gets hit by train
07:36 UTC
At least 70 killed in Niger State tanker explosion - January 18, 2025
18:52 UTC