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Train wreck at Montparnasse, France, 1895

Train wreck at Montparnasse, France, 1895

Failure (fail, phail or flop) in general refers to the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective. It may be viewed as the opposite of success. Product failure ranges from failure to sell the product to fracture of the product, in the worst cases leading to personal injury, the province of forensic engineering.

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* 1 Criteria for failure

* 2 Types of failure

* 3 Commercial failures

* 4 Fail Internet meme

* 5 See also

* 6 References

* 7 External links

Criteria for failure

The criteria for failure are heavily dependent on context of use, and may be relative to a particular observer or belief system. A situation considered to be a failure by one might be considered a success by another, particularly in cases of direct competition or a zero-sum game. As well, the degree of success or failure in a situation may be differently viewed by distinct observers or participants, such that a situation that one considers to be a failure, another might consider to be a success, a qualified success or a neutral situation.

It may also be difficult or impossible to ascertain whether a situation meets criteria for failure or success due to ambiguous or ill-defined definition of those criteria. Finding useful and effective criteria, or heuristics, to judge the success or failure of a situation may itself be a significant task.

Types of failure

Failure can be differentially perceived from the viewpoints of the evaluators. A person who is only interested in the final outcome of an activity would consider it to be an Outcome Failure if the core issue has not been resolved or a core need is not met. A failure can also be a process failure whereby although the activity is completed successfully, a person may still feel dissatisfied if the underlying process is perceived to be below expected standard or benchmark.

1. Failure to anticipate

2. Failure to perceive

Commercial failures

A commercial failure is a product that does not reach expectations of success, failing to come even close. A major flop goes one step further and is recognized for its complete lack of success.

Most of the items listed below had high expectations, significant financial investments, and/or widespread publicity, but fell far short of success. Due to the subjective nature of "success" and "meeting expectations", there can be disagreement about what constitutes a "major flop."

* For flops in computer and video gaming, see List of commercial failures in computer and video gaming

* For company failures related to the 1997–2001 Dot-com bubble, see Dot-com company

* See also Vaporware

Fail Internet meme

"Fail" is the name of a popular Internet meme where users superimpose the word "fail" onto embarrassing or compromising photos.[1]

See also

* Cascading failure

* Debugging

* Failure analysis

* Failure rate

* Failure mode

* Forensic engineering

* List of military disasters

* Murphy's law

* New product development

* Non-event

* Planned obsolescence (also built-in obsolescence)

* Power outage

* Product

* Product management

* Single point of failure

* Structural failure

* Tensile strength

* White elephant

* System accident

References

1. ^ Memes Help Keep Internet Interesting - Technology - redOrbit

* Charles Perrow, Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies, New Tork: Basic Books, 1983. Paperback reprint, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-691-00412-9

* Sandage, Scott A. Born Losers: A History of Failure in America. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-674-01510-X, ISBN 0-674-02107-X

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A white elephant is a valuable possession which its owner cannot dispose of and whose cost (particularly cost of upkeep) exceeds its usefulness.

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* 1 Background

* 2 Examples of notable alleged white elephants

* 3 See also

* 4 References

[edit] Background

The term derives from the sacred white elephants kept by Southeast Asian monarchs in Burma, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. To possess a white elephant was regarded (and is still regarded in Thailand and Burma) as a sign that the monarch was ruling with justice and the kingdom was blessed with peace and prosperity.[1] The tradition derives from tales in the scriptures which associate a white elephant with the birth of Buddha, as his mother was reputed to have dreamed of a white elephant presenting her with a lotus flower, a symbol of wisdom and purity, on the eve of giving birth.[2] Because the animals were considered sacred and laws protected them from labor, receiving a gift of a white elephant from a monarch was both a blessing and a curse: a blessing because the animal was sacred and a sign of the monarch's favour, and a curse because the animal had to be kept and could not be put to practical use to offset the cost of maintaining it.

[edit] Examples of notable alleged white elephants

* Hughes H-4 Hercules (or "Spruce Goose"), often called Howard Hughes' white elephant before and during the Senate War Investigating Committee. Hughes' associate Noah Dietrich called it a "plywood white elephant".[3]

* Bristol Brabazon, an airliner built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company in 1949 to fly a large number of passengers on transatlantic routes from England to the United States.[4]

* Concorde, a supersonic transport built by A?rospatiale and British Aircraft Corporation, intended for high-speed intercontinental passenger travel. Only fourteen production aircraft were built, though it was planned that development costs were to be amortized over hundreds of units:[5] the British and French governments incurred large losses as no aircraft could be sold on commercial terms.[6]Concorde flew the transatlantic route for over two decades, and it did at least make a big operating profit for British Airways.[7]

* SS Great Eastern, a ship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. She was the largest ship ever built at the time of her launch in 1858, and had the capacity to carry 4,000 passengers around the world without refuelling, but was not a commercial success. Her hold was later gutted and converted to lay the successful 1865 transatlantic telegraph cable, an impossible task for a smaller vessel.[8]

* Montr?al-Mirabel International Airport is North America's largest airport but has been abandoned as a passenger airport.[9][10]

* Lambert-St. Louis International Airport runway 11/29 was conceived on the basis of traffic projections made in the 1980s and 1990s that warned of impending strains on the airport and the national air traffic system as a result of predicted growth in traffic at the airport.[11] The $1 billion runway expansion was designed in part to allow for simultaneous operations on parallel runways in bad weather. Construction began in 1998, and continued even after traffic at the airport declined following the 9/11 attacks, the purchase of Trans World Airlines by American Airlines in April 2001, and subsequent cuts in flights to the airport by American Airlines in 2003.[12][13] The project required the relocation of seven major roads and the destruction of approximately 2,000 homes in Bridgeton, Missouri.[14][15] In addition to providing superfluous extra capacity for flight operations at the airport, use of the runway is shunned by fuel-conscious pilots and airlines due to its distance from the terminals.[16] Even one of the airport commissioners, John Krekeler, deemed the project a "white elephant".[17]

* HTMS Chakri Naruebet, a Thai aircraft carrier that has been criticized as having been built for nationalist reasons rather than applicable military uses.

* The United States Department of Defense (DoD) commissioned the Ada programming language, designed to be a single, standard language, particularly suitable for embedded and real-time systems. The DoD mandated the use of Ada for many software projects in 1987, but removed the requirement in 1997. It is still used, but not widely, in many countries. It came to be known as the "Green Elephant" for the color code used to keep contract selection unbiased. It was considered irrelevant for commercial applications, and its developers underestimated the power of the free market and successful tools such as C++, Java, and the Internet protocols.[18]

* The Millennium Dome in London, built at a cost of hundreds of millions of pounds in Greenwich in London to celebrate the millennium, was commonly termed a white elephant.[19][20] The exhibition it initially housed was less successful than hoped and the widely criticised building struggled to find a role after the event. It is now The O2, an arena and entertainment centre.

* Osborne House, East Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, was one of Queen Victoria's favorite royal residences. She died there on January 22, 1901. In her will, she asked that it be kept in the Royal Family, but none of her family wanted it, so Edward VII gave Osborne to the nation. With the exception of Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice, who each retained houses on the estate, the rest of the royal family saw Osborne as something of an inaccessible white elephant.

* The Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea, designed as the world's tallest hotel, began construction in 1987. Due to financial difficulties, construction ceased prematurely in 1992. Since then, the structure has remained as a massive concrete hulk, unfit for habitation.[21] Construction resumed in April 2008.

* Many have considered the Olympic Stadium stadium in Montreal as a white elephant because in cost about C$1.61 billion. In fact the debt from the stadium wasn't paid in full until December 2006.[22] Because of the big financial disaster it left Montreal, It was nicknamed The Big Owe, Uh-O and The Big Mistake.

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Failure rate is the frequency with which an engineered system or component fails, expressed for example in failures per hour. It is often denoted by the Greek letter λ (lambda) and is important in reliability theory. In practice, the closely related Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) is more commonly expressed and used for high quality components or systems.

Failure rate is usually time dependent, and an intuitive corollary is that the rate changes over time versus the expected life cycle of a system. For example, as an automobile grows older, the failure rate in its fifth year of service may be many times greater than its failure rate during its first year of service?one simply does not expect to replace an exhaust pipe, overhaul the brakes, or have major transmission problems in a new vehicle.

Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) is closely related to Failure rate. In the special case when the likelihood of failure remains constant with respect to time (for example, in some product like a brick or protected steel beam), and ignoring the time to recover from failure, failure rate is simply the inverse of the Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF). MTBF is an important specification parameter in all aspects of high importance engineering design? such as naval architecture, aerospace engineering, automotive design, etc. ?in short, any task where failure in a key part or of the whole of a system needs be minimized and severely curtailed, particularly where lives might be lost if such factors are not taken into account. These factors account for many safety and maintenance practices in engineering and industry practices and government regulations, such as how often certain inspections and overhauls are required on an aircraft.

A similar ratio used in the transport industries, especially in railways and trucking is 'Mean Distance Between Failure', a variation which attempts to correlate actual loaded distances to similar reliability needs and practices.

Failure rates and their projective manifestations are important factors in insurance, business, and regulation practices as well as fundamental to design of safe systems throughout a national or international economy.

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* 1 Failure rate in the discrete sense

* 2 Failure rate in the continuous sense

* 3 Failure rate data

o 3.1 Units

o 3.2 Additivity

o 3.3 Example

* 4 See also

* 5 References

o 5.1 Print

o 5.2 Online

* 6 External links

[edit] Failure rate in the discrete sense

In words appearing in an experiment, the failure rate can be defined as

The total number of failures within an item population, divided by the total time expended by that population, during a particular measurement interval under stated conditions. (MacDiarmid, et al.)

Here failure rate λ(t) can be thought of as the probability that a failure occurs in a specified interval, given no failure before time t. It can be defined with the aid of the reliability function or survival function R(t), the probability of no failure before time t, as:

\lambda = \frac{R(t_1)-R(t_2)}{(t_2-t_1) \cdot R(t_1)} = \frac{R(t)-R(t+\triangle t)}{\triangle t \cdot R(t)} \!

where t1 (or t) and t2 are respectively the beginning and ending of a specified interval of time spanning Δt. Note that this is a conditional probability, hence the R(t) in the denominator.

[edit] Failure rate in the continuous sense

Exponential failure density functions

Exponential failure density functions

By calculating the failure rate for smaller and smaller intervals of time \scriptstyle\Delta t , the interval becomes infinitely small. This results in the hazard function, which is the instantaneous failure rate at any point in time:

h(t)=\lim_{\triangle t \to 0} \frac{R(t)-R(t+\triangle t)}{\triangle t \cdot R(t)}.

Continuous failure rate depends on a failure distribution, \scriptstyle F(t), which is a cumulative distribution function that describes the probability of failure prior to time t,

P(\mathbf{T}\le t)=F(t)=1-R(t),\quad t\ge 0. \!

where T is the failure time. The failure distribution function is the integral of the failure density function, f(x),

F(t)=\int_{0}^{t} f(x)\, dx. \!

The hazard function can be defined now as

h(t)=\frac{f(t)}{R(t)}. \!

Many probability distributions can be used to model the failure distribution (see List of important probability distributions). A common model is the exponential failure distribution,

F(t)=\int_{0}^{t} \lambda e^{-\lambda x}\, dx = 1 - e^{-\lambda t}, \!

which is based on the exponential density function.

h(t) = \frac{f(t)}{R(t)} = \frac{\lambda e^{-\lambda x}}{e^{-\lambda x}} = \lambda

For an exponential failure distribution the hazard rate is a constant with respect to time (that is, the distribution is "memoryless"). For other distributions, such as a Weibull distribution or a log-normal distribution, the hazard function is not constant with respect to time. For some such as the deterministic distribution it is monotonic increasing (analogous to "wearing out"), for others such as the Pareto distribution it is monotonic decreasing (analogous to "burning in"), while for many it is not monotonic.

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The Enterprise or USS Enterprise (often referred to as the "Starship Enterprise") are the names of several fictional starships, some of which are the focal point for various television series and films in the Star Trek franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The majority of these vessels share "NCC-1701" as part of their registry, with later ships appending a letter to the registry to differentiate them.

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* 1 History

* 2 Fictional summary

o 2.1 Pre-Federation era

o 2.2 The Original Series era

o 2.3 Between TOS and TNG

o 2.4 The Next Generation era

o 2.5 Beyond The Next Generation

o 2.6 Mirror Universe

* 3 References

* 4 See also

* 5 External links

[edit] History

According to The Star Trek Encyclopedia, the ship's registry number, "NCC-1701"

"was devised by Matt Jefferies, art director of the first Star Trek series. Jefferies, who is a pilot, based NCC on 20th century aircraft registration codes. In such 20th century usage, an "N" first letter refers to an aircraft registered in the USA. A "C" for a second letter refers to a civil aircraft. Jefferies added a second "C", just because he thought it looked better."[1]

The name Enterprise itself comes from a long series of ships. The first was the French frigate L'Entreprise, captured by the British in 1705. The British rechristened the ship HMS Enterprise for use by the Royal Navy. A further nine Royal Navy commissioned warships were to carry the name "Enterprise". The first United States ship to use the name USS Enterprise was a Revolutionary War-era sloop-of-war. The eighth American ship to bear this name was the world's first nuclear aircraft carrier.

To capitalize on the popularity of Star Trek, as well as to honor the actual, historical vessels, NASA named an initial flight-test space shuttle Enterprise.[1] For Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, external shots of the aircraft carrier USS Ranger substituted for the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, at sea during filming.[1] In 1994, the real aircraft carrier Enterprise played host to a Star Trek convention and Star Trek memorabilia can be found throughout the ship. In the movie The Hunt for Red October, Enterprise is referred to by its call sign, "Starbase".

[edit] Fictional summary

[edit] Pre-Federation era

Two ships predate the United Federation of Planets.

XCV 330

XCV 330

Registry: USS Enterprise (XCV 330)

Class: Declaration[citation needed]

Service: circa 2130s

Captain: Unknown

Drawings of this ship are visible in background images in Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Trek: Enterprise.

NX-01

NX-01

Registry: Enterprise (NX-01)

Class: NX

Service: 2151 ? 2161

Captain: Jonathan Archer

The United Earth Starfleet's Enterprise is the main setting of Star Trek: Enterprise.

[edit] The Original Series era

Two ships named USS Enterprise are featured in the original Star Trek television series and the first through sixth Star Trek films.

NCC-1701

NCC-1701

Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)

Class: Constitution

Service: 2245 ? 2285,refitted most notably in 2270 which included a new warp drive, new warp nacelles, and almost every other vital part of the ship.

Captain: Robert April (animated series episode), Christopher Pike, James T. Kirk, Matt Decker,[2] Willard Decker, Spock

The Federation Starfleet's first Enterprise is the main setting for Kirk?s historic five-year mission as depicted in the original Star Trek series and The Animated Series (2265?2270). Two-and-a-half years later, the newly refitted Enterprise appears in The Motion Picture, and again in The Wrath of Khan, before being destroyed in The Search for Spock.

NCC-1701-A

NCC-1701-A

Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A)

Class: Constitution (refit)

Service: 2286 ? 2293

Captain: James T. Kirk, Spock

This ship first appears at the end of The Voyage Home, and is the main setting of the films The Final Frontier and The Undiscovered Country. The ship is ordered decommissioned at the end of The Undiscovered Country. Paperwork included with the model kit indicated the ship was mothballed at the Memory Alpha ship museum, and in the novel The Ashes of Eden, by William Shatner, the Enterprise-A is removed from the mothball fleet before being destroyed defending the planet Chal.

[edit] Between TOS and TNG

The Enterprise-B and Enterprise-C and their crews are briefly visible on screen, and are also the subject of several licensed novels published by Pocket Books.

NCC-1701-B

NCC-1701-B

Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-B)

Class: Excelsior (upgrade)[3]

Service: 2293 ? 2320s

Captain: John Harriman

Launched at the start of Star Trek Generations. James T. Kirk goes missing during the ship's maiden voyage. According to the Star Trek novels, Demora Sulu becomes captain, after Harriman.

NCC-1701-C

NCC-1701-C

Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-C)

Class: Ambassador

Service: 2332[4] ? 2344

Captain: Rachel Garrett, Richard Castillo

This ship plays a major role in the Next Generation episode "Yesterday's Enterprise". According to dialog in the TNG episode "Redemption, Part II", the ship was destroyed attempting to defend the Klingon outpost Narendra III from Romulan attack. Survivors included Tasha Yar, whose alternate timeline version from Yesterday's Enterprise travels with the ship back in time to the battle over Narendra III. The actions of the Enterprise crew became the catalyst for the alliance between the Federation and the Klingon Empire.

[edit] The Next Generation era

Two ships named Enterprise are featured in Star Trek: The Next Generation and four TNG-era films.

NCC-1701-D

NCC-1701-D

Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D)

Class: Galaxy

Service: 2363 ? 2371

Captain: Jean-Luc Picard, William Riker, Edward Jellico

The main setting of The Next Generation TV series. This ship is destroyed in the film Generations. In the alternate future featured in the TNG series finale All Good Things..., this Enterprise is shown intact, albeit heavily refitted, in 2395. The refits included a third warp nacelle, new weapons, and a cloaking device.

NCC-1701-E

NCC-1701-E

Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E)

Class: Sovereign

Service: 2372 ? Active (as of 2380)

Captain: Jean-Luc Picard

The main setting for the films: First Contact, Insurrection, and Nemesis.

To film the "saucer ramming" scene in Nemesis, the crew turned the models of both ships upside down, physically rammed them together, and filmed the broken 'debris' in slow-motion.[citation needed]

[edit] Beyond The Next Generation

Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-F) ? The Next Generation novel Imzadi showed an alternate timeline Enterprise-F that was commanded by Commodore Data in the 25th century. War of the Prophets, one of the Millennium trilogy of Star Trek novels by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, also presented an alternate universe Enterprise-F, this time in the 24th century. The ship was described as being like the Defiant on steroids, and was initially commanded by Captain Jean-Luc Picard, then later by Captain Riker until its destruction. As both of these stories involve alternate futures, no version of a starship by this name has been shown in the main timeline.

NCC-1701-J

NCC-1701-J

Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-J)

Class: Unknown

Service: circa 26th century

Captain: Unknown

The "Azati Prime" episode of Star Trek: Enterprise involves time travel and features a scene in which this Enterprise is briefly shown.

The Enterprise-J operates in one possible version of the 26th century, with a diverse crew that includes Xindi and Klingons. The ship, along with a fleet of other Federation vessels, fights and defeats the Sphere Builders at the Battle of Procyon Five (depicted in the episode "Azati Prime"). Crewman Daniels brings Captain Jonathan Archer forward from the 22nd century so that Archer can witness the battle. Archer subsequently works with the Xindi in the 22nd century to defeat the Sphere Builders earlier in history.

The Enterprise-J is featured in the 2005 Ships of the Line calendar that features images of the various starships seen from Star Trek throughout the years, as well as in the Ships of the Line book released in 2006. The Enterprise-J is also seen in the "Ships of the Line" poster released in the Star Trek Magazine issue #1.

Enterprise?s "G", "H", and "I" have not yet been mentioned in licensed Star Trek fiction. A future Enterprise however is mentioned in the novel Star Trek: Federation, with a female captain.

[edit] Mirror Universe

ISS Enterprise (NX-01)

ISS Enterprise (NX-01)

Registry: ISS Enterprise (NX-01)

Class: NX

Service: 2150s

Captain: Maximilian Forrest, Jonathan Archer

The Star Trek: Enterprise episode "In a Mirror, Darkly" features a Mirror Universe ship that in almost every way appears as an exact duplicate of the Enterprise. Differences include the use of a cloaking device captured from the Suliban, escape pods, a tractor beam as opposed to a grappler, a torture booth created by the mirror Doctor Phlox and Malcolm Reed, and different exterior markings. It is commanded by Captain Maximilian Forrest, although for a brief time his first officer, Commander Jonathan Archer, takes command following a mutiny. This Enterprise is destroyed by the Tholians. Commander Jonathan Archer boards the USS Defiant and takes possession of the vessel with the intention of becoming Emperor.

Registry: ISS Enterprise (NCC-1701)

Class: Constitution

Service: 2260s

Captain: James T. Kirk, Spock

A Mirror Universe Enterprise appears in the original Star Trek series episode "Mirror, Mirror". The ship in almost every way appears as an exact duplicate of the Federation starship USS Enterprise. The clearest difference is the nearly omnipresent logo of the Terran Empire?a sword stabbing through a stylized Earth?seen on doors and bulkheads throughout the ship. Some interior locations are darker and filled with punishment and torture devices, such as the agony booth and the mirror James T. Kirk's deadly Tantalus device.

The remastered version of "Mirror, Mirror" includes a CGI version of Enterprise with correct "ISS" markings on the hull and minor physical differences from USS Enterprise, such as a larger deflector dish and taller bridge.

Registry: ISS Enterprise (ICC-1701-D) ? The Next Generation novel Dark Mirror showed an alternate timeline Enterprise-D that was staffed by Mirror Universe versions of Captain Picard and his crew. The novel posits a still existing Terran Empire which was later contradicted by the canon future of the Mirror Universe as shown in episodes of Deep Space Nine.

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Structural failure refers to loss of the load-carrying capacity of a component or member within a structure or of the structure itself. Structural failure is initiated when the material is stressed to its strength limit, thus causing fracture or excessive deformations. The ultimate failure strength of the material, component or system is its maximum load-bearing capacity. When this limit is reached, damage to the material has been done, and its load-bearing capacity is reduced permanently, significantly and quickly. In a well-designed system, a localized failure should not cause immediate or even progressive collapse of the entire structure. Ultimate failure strength is one of the limit states that must be accounted for in structural engineering and structural design.

[edit] Notable structural failures

Year Structure Location

1847 Dee bridge disaster Chester, England

1865 Steamboat Sultana boiler explosion Memphis, Tennessee

1879 Tay Rail Bridge Dundee, Scotland

1907 Quebec Bridge Quebec City, Quebec

1919 Boston Molasses Disaster Boston, Massachusetts

1940 First Tacoma Narrows Bridge (Galloping Gertie) Tacoma, Washington

1954 BOAC Flight 781, de Havilland Comet Mediterranean Sea off Elba

1966 BOAC Flight 911, Boeing 707 Near Mount Fuji, Japan

1967 Silver Bridge Point Pleasant, West Virginia

1968 Ronan Point collapse London, England

1978 Hartford Civic Center Hartford, Connecticut

1979 Kemper Arena Kansas City, Missouri

1981 Hyatt Regency walkway collapse Kansas City

1985 Japan Airlines Flight 123, Boeing 747 Mount Takamagahara in Gunma Prefecture, Japan

1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster Cape Canaveral, Florida

1986 Hotel New World Disaster Little India near Serangoon Road, Singapore

1987 L'Ambiance Plaza collapse Bridgeport, Connecticut

1993 Highland Towers collapse Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

1995 Sampoong Department Store collapse Seoul, Korea

1996 TWA Flight 800, Boeing 747 Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York

2000 Pier No. 34 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2001 Versailles wedding hall collapse Jerusalem

2001 Collapse of the World Trade Center New York City

2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster Texas

2004 Collapse of the Terminal 2E roof, Charles de Gaulle Airport Paris, France

2007 I-35W Mississippi River Bridge collapse Minneapolis, Minnesota

2007 Bridge over Jiantuo River collapse during construction Hunan, China

2007 Collapse of Cần Thơ Bridge T?y Nam Bộ, Vietnam

[edit] See also

* Catastrophic failure

* Structural collapse

* List of bridge disasters

* Porch collapse

* Forensic engineering

* Progressive collapse

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