facts verse presents eight human errors
that caused a major accident
number one controlled burn gone wrong
many forest management services use
controlled burns to reduce hazards and
the possibility of wildfires
controlled burns are often conducted
during the colder months and they're
overseen by firefighters and forest
officials a controlled burn was
conducted in May of 2000 near Los Alamos
New Mexico unfortunately it was
performed during a time of drought on a
very windy day the fire quickly got out
of control and it burned for over a
month in the process 400 homes in the
town were destroyed and over 48,000
acres of forest were destroyed in the
fire
it came dangerously close to the Los
Alamos National weapons laboratory had
the fire reached the building it could
have had catastrophic results in the end
the fire caused over 1 billion dollars
in property damage
number two the space shuttle Columbia
disaster on February 1st 2003 the space
shuttle Columbia disintegrated over
Texas and Louisiana when it was
reentering the Earth's atmosphere all
seven crew members on the shuttle died
they were on a mission to help build the
International Space Station
it happened because the shuttle lost
pieces of insulation when it entered the
atmosphere
after the disaster all space operations
were put on hold for two years and an
investigation was started when the
shuttle was taking off NASA personnel on
the ground noticed that a piece of
thermal insulation hit the left wing
when the shuttle was taking off
unfortunately the crew was never
notified the heads of NASA decided that
there wasn't much that the astronauts
could do to fix the problem while they
were in space instead they decided to
cross their fingers and hope that
nothing would happen if they had ordered
a spacewalk repair or a rescue mission
it could have been dangerous
but it would have saved the life of all
of the crew members number three
bangladesh building collapse the
bangladesh building collapse is the most
deadly structural failure and the
deadliest garment factory incident in
history on april 24th 2013 an eight
story building collapsed the day before
reporters noticed cracks in the
foundation and the building was
evacuated the next day it was business
as usual the owners of the companies who
worked in the building told their
employees to come to work or their pay
would be ducked the power was cut to the
building and the generators kicked on
allowing the employees to continue
working at 8:57 a.m. the building
collapsed it took three weeks for
rescuers to sort through the rubble and
1129 people died in the incident the
building's owner was arrested and is now
in jail pending charges and the workers
been allowed to stay home that day
nobody would have perished in the
collapse number four the explosion of
the space shuttle Challenger on January
28 1986 while millions of American
students were watching on television at
school and millions of adults were
watching from the ground and on
television the space shuttle Challenger
exploded in the air right after takeoff
over Cape Canaveral in Florida the ship
exploded into a fireball and fell into
the ocean killing everyone on board one
of the crew members was Christa
McAuliffe who was supposed to be the
first teacher in space after an
investigation it was found that an
o-ring seal in a rocket booster
disintegrated during takeoff this caused
hot gas to spill over the fuel tank it
was found that the unusually cold
weather compromised the o-ring also the
company that created the Boosters warned
NASA that there could be a booster
failure but they chose to ignore the
warning shuttle missions were stopped
for two years while new safety features
were designed number five the Chernobyl
disaster
the chair noble disaster is the worst
nuclear accident in history the nuclear
power plant is located near the city of
Pripyat in the Ukraine it was under the
direct command of Soviet Union officials
when the disaster occurred on April 26th
1986 the system's test was being
performed when reactor number 4 had a
spike in energy which caused the core to
detonate radioactive material shot up
into the air and it spread over Western
USSR and Europe it was found that 31
people were killed and the people in the
city of Pripyat had to evacuate
immediately leaving all of their
belongings behind after an investigation
it was found that human error was the
reason for the accident before the test
was conducted an employee disabled an
automatic shutdown mechanism had they
not done this the system would have shut
down as soon as it overheated today the
reactor is encased in a large concrete
sphere the area remains off-limits to
everyone but the 15,000 Ukrainians who
were hired to perform maintenance and
research number 6 American Airlines
flight 587 this is one of the most
horrific of the eight human errors that
caused a major accident in 2001 just two
months after the 9/11 attacks American
Airlines flight 587 crashed in a
neighborhood in Queens New York
all 260 people on board as well as five
people on the ground were killed it was
initially believed that the plane went
down in another terrorist attack after
an investigation though it was found
that the plane crashed due to the pilots
error it was discovered that he overused
the rudder controls in response to heavy
turbulence which caused the plane to
crash
number 7 deadliest US hot air balloon
crash on July 30th 2016 a hot-air
balloon pilot set off with 15 passengers
on what was supposed to be a relaxing
ride after the balloon struck a
high-voltage power line
the balloon caught fire and crashed to
the ground all of the people in the
balloon died at first the cause of the
crash was unknown however after an
investigation it was discovered that the
pilot had seven medications in his
system at the time of the crash three of
them included valium oxycontin and
Ritalin it is believed that this is the
reason the pilot was not able to avoid
the powerlines number eight
overfishing in Thailand fishing is a
huge industry since there are so many
people fishing it is necessary to find a
way to get the fish to breed faster the
officials in Thailand decided to dump 27
army tanks into the water along with old
train cars and garbage trucks they
wanted these things to create an
artificial reef for marine plants and
animals to multiply many people believe
that this was a mistake
as the vehicles will rust creating a
dangerous environment for the fish and
other marine life subscribe for more
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