Most Expensive Mistakes In All History - Part 4
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I was in math class when the Challenger disaster happened. We had been somewhat unruly, given that it was unusual to take a break to watch a shuttle launch, so it took a lot for our teacher to get us to shut up and actually watch the event. We were stunned into absolute silence when the explosion happened, and someone in the room began to cry as it became obvious that the shuttle had broken apart. The principal's voice came on the PA to tell us what we had obviously just witnessed. It isn't as if any teachers had boycotted the event to keep teaching that day. Unlike most classes, our teacher did not turn off the TV. She realized that we had all witnessed a very dark moment in history. She didn't want to leave us with the event followed by complete shut down followed by stress and feelings of helplessness. The principal called an assembly. Our teacher told us we could go or stay. We stayed. She encouraged us to talk, to let our feelings of anger or sadness out. It was cathartic. She got in trouble because we didn't go to the assembly. Years later, I saw 9/11 unfold. I realized that I was helpless; I was a bystander to another very dark moment in history. Looking back, she had helped us understand that we could experience horrific events without being paralyzed by them.
That teacher shouldn't have gotten in trouble, she should have instead gotten a promotion to being a counselor.
Her getting into trouble was so wrong, she included her students in the post trauma (beginning) healing process. She should have been given a raise!
Great story. The best lessons in life have nothing to do with facts and formulas. It’s the bigger picture that’s important. Teachers who can turn tragedy into a teachable moment don’t come along every day. But when they do it sticks with us forever. Thanks for sharing.
My parents had me stay home sick from school on 9/11 when the attack happened (I THINK I was in 2nd grade). It's crazy how when you're so young you can't really grasp the gravity of such a situation, and the hundreds of nuances that inherently come from something so awful. But, even so, I remember vividly watching it on our shyt TV in the living room, as I had fallen asleep on the couch, but I knew it had to be really bad because my mom was sort of freaking out, calling for my dad. As I got older and became more and more interested in it I found how truly horrific that was, even for first responders.
You should do a follow up video on what happen to the people that caused these accidents.
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Honestly, accidents happen. If found that it’s unintentional tell them not to beat themselves up over it because an accident is an accident and we’re only human.
yeah!
After Allan McDonald died, I read a newspaper page dedicated to his story about that day. When he refused to sign that statement that said it was ok to launch, he was hard-pressed over and over again to sign it. After the explosion, he was told to keep his mouth shut, plus he was demoted and placed somewhere less visible. It took some investigators a long time to find out Mr, Mc Donald’s truth. It Is my understanding that the VIPs who did give the ok, nothing really much happened to them. Edit: I wonder if their consciences bother them??
That reminds me of when the big blue crane accident happened at Miller Park in Milwaukee, the Ironworkers supervisor insisted at peace be lifted that day and heavy winds, because of tight deadlines to build that Stadium, three iron workers died as a result.
Yip, same as the Ham woman I believe was responsible for the Discovery burnout...... sleeping snugly in her bed without a care!
That first story brings to mind a friend of mine. This friend has made a pretty decent living off scouring eBay (and other similar sites) for the listings which are either misspelled, mislabeled, or listed in the wrong category. He finds these listings, buys them at pennies on the dollar, and either turns around and resells them or, in most cases (since computer parts are (according to him) the most commonly mis-listed items) builds a computer then sells it for multiples of his cost. When he first told me about this plan, I thought he was out of his friggin mind. That was 7 years ago. The man hasn't "worked" a day since and, somehow, keeps up with his child support (this is a REAL man who actually takes care of his obligations), pays his bills, and has a little left over for play (which he usually dumps back into buying more stuff). I do admit, saying he hasn't "worked" is a bit misleading since he spends anywhere between 10 and 15 hours a day on the various consumer to consumer sites. He's also always looking out for items his friends would like. I am a watch collector and recently he sent me a link for an Omega Speedmaster which was listed as "Omaga Speedster Chrono". It was listed at a starting price of $700 and, I'm sure, the seller fully expected the listed price to be quickly out-bid. I bit $1000 and won it for the opening bid of $700. I had it appraised within days of receiving it and the appraiser gave it a value of just shy of $10k. Anyone can do this...assuming they have unlimited time to invest and don't mind looking at thousands of listings to find the single gem. Personally, I do not have the patience but, hey, it works for him so, more power to him!
I don't get it, but then again I don't get alot of stuff about ebay but what does a misspelling have to do with anything? Don't people realize the only thing wrong is they spelled it wrong?
@@jamierupert7563 If it's not spelled correctly or it's mislabeled, it won't come up if someone searches for it. If it's listed in the wrong category, the only people who see it are people who aren't looking for it. Basically, he takes advantage of the specificity of the search engines and the human tendency to make mistakes. Finding these deals is a hugely time intensive task and, in 15 or so hours, my friend will usually find only 2 or 3 of them. Even when he finds deals, he usually buys only about half of them.
@@watchyourtimeco1 so he gets them for the listed price and the poster has to sell at that price? Or is there a low ball offer through the buy it now tab available?
@@CattooButt It only works on no reserve auctions where the item is misspelled, info is left out, and/or it's listed in the wrong category. The Omega I bought there is an example. It was listed with an opening bid of $700 with no reserve, which makes sense because that watch shouldn't ever sell for less than $1500. Mistake 1: The watch was spelled wrong in the listing ("Omaga Speedster Chrono" instead of "Omega Speedmaster"). Mistake 2: It was listed in "Fashion Jewelry" instead of "Luxury Watches" or "Wristwatches". Mistake 3: The listing was made under the assumption that it was a basic Omega Speedmaster. It was actually an Omega Speedmaster Mark II with a steel and rose gold band. Anyone doing a search for "Omega" or "Seamaster" wouldn't find this listing in their results because it's spelled incorrectly. Anyone browsing the "wristwatches" or "luxury watches" categories wouldn't find it because it's in the wrong category. Basically, the only people who saw that listing was people who were browsing through cheap jewelry. Basically, nobody saw the listing so nobody was able to out-bid me. The pawn shop that listed it probably didn't notice the watch sold under the expected price because they ship dozens of items a day.
He is self-employed.
Let's see. To accidentally fire the gun of an F-16 on the ground you will need to connect a -60 ground power unit, a hydraulic 'mule' for hydraulic power, pull gun safety pins, pull weight on wheels circuit breakers, power up the gun and select it on the weapons management system and then 'accidentally' fire it.
Facts
No cap😂😂
Anytime you're working on the aircraft, almost all of those things are done. We had two incidents similar to that when I was in the service, and both of them were because the squat switch on the nose gear had failed. And they do fail at a relatively common rate. Yes the mechanic would have hooked up the dash 60 and hydraulic power anytime he's working on the aircraft. I did the same thing almost every time I worked on an aircraft unless I was just pulling apart for prepping it for phase inspection. You might be surprised how easy it is to get that gun to go off when that aircraft is in maintenance mode. One of the incidents that we had at Cannon New Mexico, somebody put about 20 rounds of 20 MMG through the maintenance truck, as it was sitting in front of the aircraft. It also remove the front gear from the aircraft. New front gear a new radome and most of it was repaired. We also had a mechanic who thought it would be interesting to see if the Lord's Prayer really was written on the inside of the cover that you pull out and cover your face with on an F-4. And launched himself through the roof of the hanger. He did not survive the ejection. however
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I can believe it happening
I remember Challenger. My 5th grade teacher was so excited that a fellow teacher was on board - also schools were given special LIVE monitors for the event. The confusion, and following horror is what I remember most (not of the kids, but of the teachers) - kids know things. Pretending we didn't understand - after watching our teachers faint, throw up, scream, and cry in the hallways (doors weren't so sounds proof back then) - didn't help much. We were sent home for the day.
What event you were given live monitors for?
@@xwtek3505 challenger shuttle launch; news wasn't live and cut coverage just before explosion. Our classroom didn't have the same cut off - we could hear the airforce confirming debris and dispatching rescue, all of that, no news anchorman or commercials. The principle had to go to our classroom to turn the monitor off - our teacher and aid had walked out.
i was in 4th grade and i had just turned 10, 2 weeks before we watched the challenger launch, with the rest of the school as part of science class/young astronauts club. we were all excited to see liftoff then silent when we saw challenger explode into the fireball. as it was a catholic school, we had a moment of silence and emergency prayers for the 7 astronauts who had taken their last flight. RIP
@@xwtek3505 the space shuttle Challenger was a huge deal because of the teacher in space program. Pretty much every school in the untied states had it live in every classroom.
Remembering that day still brings tears to my eyes. Right now, for instance.
Really needed this video to show to my parents that I'm not the most expensive mistake in history😣
never know, you're not done yet. lol
You'll be on the next list... part 5
@@surveyguyor8958 ↔️ I’m _(jokingly)_ with him. *Believe in yourself and you can DO ANYTHING* ❗️
Ouch. Their mistake was telling you that you were a mistake.
not expensive...only a price of condom.
19:06 The full cost of the Challenger disaster was higher than the dollar value you quoted. That was the mission where they were taking a civilian teacher into space. The whole mission was an immense PR and educational project. And so many (most?) of the people watching were children. I still remember that day. It still draws tears to my eyes. I remember exactly where I was. I remember the gasps and cries of my classmates. Who knows what the psychological cost of that disaster actually was?
See my other comments if you want to know the truth about the Challenger "Disaster" as not one of those people died! They were found to be alive 10 years later! It was a false flag operation!
Estimating a cost that involves the psychological trauma that happened to millions of people that day, uhmmmm I doubt that a monetary estimate is possible. This was seen by young school children all over the USA and probably some worldwide and add in the adults of all ages, whew‼️
From faulty.not suitable o rings and they knew it...but PR didn.t want to delay takeoff .would look bad.
@@lonarbuckle9788 No, the o rings would not function in the cold. They would function within specs. The technical people were overruled.
I remember watching it on the telly. It wasn't just that there was a Teacher on the flight that was interesting. One of the crew, Ray, was taking his Saxophone up and it was planned for him to play it live as the shuttle flew over London's Docklands during the Jean Michel Jarre concert. Someone else played Ray's piece in the concert.
Any time there is a structural disaster, know that managers approve budgets. My aerospace engineer sister and a couple colleagues were removed from a shuttle project because management opted for a cheaper ceramic for the exterior (not the '86 Shuttle). You all may remember a few years back where a shuttle nearly burned up on reentry because of ceramic plates failing and coming off? The managers probably got promoted.
Classic example of "FUMU", I also work in the Public Sector and see this stuff so much I've become numb, lol!
Humanity, for the most part is arrogant and stupid from child abuses of so many types including harming innocent and helpless via so-called adults bullying, neglecting, and indoctrinating children; it's far past time to be done with insanity and do less and less harm.
@@cardphins68 I was going for FUBAR, but yeah.
@@01mustang05 We pass along our broken bits. If we don't confront and deal with them, our kids pay/fail, and might never figure out why.
Damn that's wild man.
The Captain of the Evergreen wasn't to blame. Two pilots employed by the Canal company to pilot it through the canal weren't paying attention. Having company pilots is actually safer than not using them as they 'should' know the passage better. In the Puget Sound around Seattle, a ship can't move a single foot unless a Port of Seattle Pilot is on board.
The canal operators got behind on dredging too it looks like.
It's. A. Straight. Hallway. How do you mess up just going straight!?
@@thezman9001 You don't know much about ships and weather, do you?
@@kariahola463 How did you know!?
It seemed like such a simple task
Beirut happened due to an initial fireworks explosion after tyres caught fire. That explosion caused ammonium perchlorate to ignite then explode. It ALL exploded at once resulting in the main explosion that decimated the port. (There's a really good video explaining everything that led up to this and a supercut of EVERY angle caught of it.)
...And you'll link us to this video?
Im from lebanon and ur totally wrong ;-;
@@b1xps344 Then would you care to enlighten us?
@@eelchiong6709 search it up
@@eelchiong6709 a factory exploded im too tired to write what happened just search it up
To fire the F-16's cannon as a maintenance worker, first you need electrical power on the aircraft, you need hydraulic power to the aircraft, you'll need to remove the safety pin for the gun, select the cannon armament, then the Master Arm switch, finally someone needs to disable the weight on wheels (WOW) switch on the landing gear, then, pull the trigger. On the other hand, if you can run the engine, that gets you electrical and hydraulics. But you still need the pins pulled, correct cockpit switchology, and then the WoW switch.
You sound like Steven Segal in Under siege SEMI automatic
That guy was smart to get in the water by that HUGE explosion. Saved his eardrums and possibility his life.
Did he jump off or get knocked off?
@@lolo82t.r.86 He definitely got knocked off.
No no blast survival is taught in kindergarten in Beirut
@@midtownmariner5250 It's different because depth charges originate inside the water. The reason why they work is because they form a large temporary cavity that quickly fills, causing the shockwave. An explosion originating from outside the water would actually lose some of that energy as it hits the surface of the water.
@@lolo82t.r.86 he jumped!!...... hell l'd have jumped too!!
It's amazing how so many things engineered and built by humans have the potential to be practically perfect. But when money or extra work gets involved, people often do the absolute wrong thing.
too many stupid people
nuclear power plants are not insured by private insurance companies due to human greed and shortcuts, only govt funding covers nuclear plants.
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There's lots of wrong information in this documentary.
I was watching the Challenger launch live when it blew up. A few years ago, I read that the autopsies of the bodies showed most of them died from heart attack and suffocation (no breathable air at the altitude it exploded)... this means the crew survived the explosion and for a brief moment, knew what happened and obviously saw the plunge downward toward the ocean.
That is scary, I think it'd have been better if it had happened quickly; at least for me that's how I'd rather go in a situation like that.
You are imagining that they were processing what was happening into coherent thought and weren't in shock without understanding or awareness. A brief moment isn't enough for that but people do like to imagine the most horrible scenario.
Emergency oxygen packs, which must be turned on manually, were worn by each crew member. It was discovered that three of these packs were indeed turned on when they were found later. The emergency breathing packs were 3/4 to 7/8 empty at the time of discovery. Each pack provides about 5 minutes of breathing oxygen to the user. It is not known why the depletion of the packs is longer than the time it took them to hit the water.
That was a cover up because they didn't want to tell the world they were all alive when they sunk under the ocean and no one looked for them because they thought there was nothing left to find. They died from hypothermia and lack of oxygen, if nasa immediately sent a rescue team they would have all survived.
@@missmorla1339 Negative. The collision with the water was not survivable. Most, probably all, of them were dead long before hitting the water, anyway, even though emergency oxygen packs were turned on. Unconsciousness comes very quickly at that altitude due to lack of oxygen, cold, and shock.
17:13 the Beirut blast shocked me the most. Seeing this literal explosive force and what impact it had, is horrible.
17:34 man that's incredible to see, it almost looks like CGI. Look at the way the initial clouds expand in a perfect sphere, if you pause the video and use . and , to go frame by frame you can see how fast that shockwave actually moved, the clouds look completely stationary compared to the disruption and then explosion and that thing is like hundreds of meters wide
Man I live in beirut and I cant describe the scenery for you. It was a horrible experience I wish no human ever live that What's worse than the 1st blast the view of the whole city destructed and covered with shattered glass is heart breaking The calls I got from friends and family cuz I was at work at the time makes stone cry
XD am from Lebanon too (not like the other guy, he's not Lebanese, he just lives there ) ( btw am not being racist but Lebanon is a Christian country, not Muslim )
I knew about the Challenger accident. My old english teacher at Shanghai had even been witness of the whole thing when she was a child. Her school was near Cap Canaveral and if they went in the field nearby, they had direct view over launches. I myself can't possibly imagine what she must've felt like, nor how anybody felt like for that matter.
For some reason most of the US took time out of the kids day for EVERYONE to watch the launch broadcast live on TV. I was one of them and the hysteria it caused made them cancel school for the day and send us all home. No body knew if it was just an accident or attack from a foreign enemy. It was a bizarre day to be sure.
@@CharlesClemens On a launch date in Jan NASA ignored the engineer to get one launch of 24 needed or funding dried up. 2 launches a month average can be caught up in decent weather. They lost all 24 launches because they had no Shuttle.
I remember very well. On this video he said the wrong date. He said it January 18 but it was actually January 28
I watched it live on tv in my 3rd grade classroom. The teacher ran over to the tv and turned it off after it exploded and then we had an assembly and let out early for the day because it had been on in every classroom and some kids were just inconsolable. It was a weird day for an 8 year old kid.
I remember I was at elementary school and every teacher told us as it was a terrible accident for all at the time
I'm just barely old enough to remember Challenger happening - I was young but obsessed with space from a very young age. The really sad thing about the Challenger disaster is that they were warned what could happen by engineers and ignored advice against launching, dooming all on board. Even sadder is that the workplace safety culture at NASA did not improve in light of the disaster or subsequent investigations, which is what ultimately led to the destruction of Columbia in 2003.
@@Mokes888: Trudat. Boeing with the B737MAX being a fairly recent and obvious example.
@@anjakellenjeter And Boeing's involvement with SLS (Space Launch System) and specifically their capsule Starliner, the second attempt of their second try after a number of valve failures throughout the capsules many systems, is very troublesome considering the problems they had with multiple attitude control thrusters not firing during every phase of their recent test flight to the ISS (International Space Station). It appears at this point in time that NASA is prepared to go ahead with the next test flight which will be carrying NASA Astronauts, and not just cargo.
@@Mokes888 This wasn't about a corporation. Watch the video.
If NASA devloped a rescue craft in case of structural failure in space the crew wouldn't have perished. Or an in space inspection and repair robot that injects a thermally set foam epoxy carbon fiber goo that would have plugged the hole that was the entry point of superheated air.
@@darrellcook8253: Ironically, they did consider making the entire crew compartment a "life raft" by making an ejection system for it, after which it would have deployed parachutes and then landed like the old Apollo-era vehicles did. However, they ultimately decided that this had too many potential points of failure. There was also the fact that the orbiter was a plane, so theoretically, it could fly out of most forms of trouble - as was intended with most of its abort modes. There was also the potential for crew to escape by parachute, hence the suits they wore and would need for a high altitude jump. Neither of these would have helped the Challenger crew. Nor the Columbia crew, as it broke up too high and too fast on re-entry. Neither did the cultural attitude at NASA that came with the Shuttle, of making space flight "routine" - the Shuttle always was and always should have been considered an experimental vehicle. Frankly, the largest problem that the Shuttle suffered from was Nixon forcing a shotgun wedding between NASA and the US Air Force, which resulted in the design we got. The irony is, NASA might still be flying the Shuttle had it been what they originally conceived because neither disaster would have been possible with the original design - which was a smaller space plane without it's own rocket engines that sat atop a stack akin to that of the Apollo-era rockets. Columbia would have straight up never happened. Challenger might have but with the ship atop the stack, there'd have been the potential for it to automatically detach and fly away to safety.
My most expensive mistake was back in 2008 I was working at a Cadillac dealership. One day I finished working on a $80k Escalade and started lowering it from the lift. As I was doing that, another tech parked behind me in a $120k XLR-V and opened and left the door opened to go return a work order. Then I and everyone heard a crunch. We both got written up. Good times.
Yeesh
Why were you written up? You weren't the person who parked the car behind you. Or left the door open.
@@belphy205 right, I yelled CLEAR, then proceeded to lower the Escalade. The facia of the truck is huge so as it was coming down obviously I wouldn’t be able to see behind it. Then one of the techs drove the XLR behind and swung the door wide open and ran into the office next to me. Then the rest happened.
@@torres3800 sheesh that sucks.
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I agree! I like the fact that he posts about different things not just one boring subject.👍💙
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One video a week is "insane" work rate? You guys are seriously either lazy, or don't realize how low effort these videos are, literally steal and hijacks other people's pictures/video/sound files and just crop it all together in a video editing program and just record your voice over it. Bam new video
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There was a very good documentary on the Ever Given, the Suez Canal, and worldwide shipping via container ships and what they have to go through with regard to wind and currents and such. I think it was one of PBS's Nova episodes but I'm not sure. In any case, it went into detail as to why and how a ship that size could get stuck in the canal and the natural forces (not to mention the human error) at play that could exacerbate what happened. It's a real interesting show.
@Laura Saul+ Both NOVA and Frontline have episodes that cover this and both can be found on PBS. They tell pretty much the same thing, so just choose either to watch, although having said that, I'm a huge NOVA Fan so that would be my choice.. Just sayin... ;)
@@chefscorner7063 I love NOVA. Just love it. Then again, I'm one of those nerds that loves learning. Always learning. Reading, learning, looking random stuff up, reading more, etc. so forth. 🙂
Why not intentionally watch both for a better perspective of the Fake News Industrial Complex.
15:57 The explosion also happened because one of them chemicals (forgot which one) was known for reacting violently to water (it would cause a spark or something), so when the water that was being used to put out the initial fire touched the specific chemicals-boom. Hence why the explosion itself was so massive.
Lives were lost
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2:44 And that is why the first rule of gun safety is to make sure the load status of a gun when you first pick it up, even for aircraft guns. Make sure it is loaded or unloaded, and treat it accordingly.
at brize egvn fighter diverted parked up as the usual line up for vc10's belfast argosy brittania. guess which way it faced. i saw it and cycled in the other direction oops
Mizuho and J-Com... I was working in that world then. THAT had massive consequences. The CEO and CTO and COO of TSE resigned. TSE redesigned it's entire trading system as well. And the company I worked for at the time made quite a lot of money from that whole fallout. Those were really good times.
17:37 when he went underwater it reminded me of that scene in Dunkirk, where he stuck his head under water to prevent getting deaf by the loud noise.
Learned something new, thanks.
Two examples (at least) of people "in the trenches" telling out of touch management about a problem, only to be ignored and watching the problem unfold. Standard procedure for companies, it seems. I have encountered dozens of such scenarios in my work life. Fortunately, those were all relatively small mistakes, certainly trivial compared to these. Managers think they know everything. They don't.
Wow - imagine constantly getting the reply "You're only a [insert grade/level/job descriptor here - let's say Clerical Officer in the civil service (hah; classic oxymoron) as an example] - what would you know?" (despite you having more than 1 degree + plenty of relevant experience) for YEARS.... what are the odds of clocking up 100% loyalty to the 'organisation' and/or the 'management' (the majority of whom appear to be FUNS - as in Fat, Ugly, Nosy and Stupid)??
@@daveroche6522 Unfortunately, Dave, I don't have to imagine it; I lived it for about 15 years. Later, as a corporate Private investigator I saw it from the perspective of both employee and victim and corporate hired critic. (Got a little revenge there, a couple of times.)
They are nothing more than Bean counters, they are wired one way, and that is money money.
@Jens Nobel WOW, what a harrowing story! I hope you and the other driver were not hurt. Fiascoes like that are why people consider "military intelligence" an oxymoron. Thanks for sharing.
_"Hey boss! I got a trailer in B lot who's brakes aren't engaging when it's parked."_ _"Alright. I'll come and get it."_ _"I don't have anything to chock the wheels. Make sure you grab a couple before heading over here."_ _"Nah. It'll be fine."_ **Cue a 53 foot semi trailer sliding itself along the (thankfully empty) parking lot and into a dumpster**
Goes to show that paying your due diligence and having knowledge of your job can really save lives even down to the machine operators at some little shop in a small town. It's amazing to learn how the manufacturing sector spreads like a vine.
There was a luxury high rise building in south padre island in Texas called ocean tower that cost billions to build and there was a foundation problem discovered just after the building was completed. The entire tower had to be imploded. That mistake probably could have made this list
Not billions, since the developer borrowed only $75 million. A lot of the demolished materials were recycled/reused.
As a born and raised Floridian I remember the Challenger like it was yesterday. I was in 6th or 7th grade at the time and because there was a school teacher on board this mission...every school in the US was watching the launch live. I had seen shuttle launches before and I knew what I just saw was bad. Some kids in my class were cheering when the explosion happened because they thought it was just the point where the solid rocket boosters separate. The cheering quickly stopped.
That is one of those catastrophes are you remember exactly where you were and what you were doing, I remember where I was when 9/11 happened, when John Lennon was shot, and when RFK was assassinated.
Is nobody going to mention the fact that there was also a teacher on board the Challenger Shuttle, she was a contest winner I believe and was supposed to teach a class from space
Why JUST the teacher ? There were SEVEN HUMAN LIVES LOST in that explosion. Not just the "female teacher". Show some fukkin respect !!!!!
@@jonny555ive relax lol
Somehow a teacher gets more respect than 6 astronauts..hmm curious.
Wow I bet you believe everything they say don't you. When they tell you that the only cure for covid is eating your own pee and poop. You will be the first in the bathroom with a bowl and spoon.
@@jonny555ive I'm not disregarding the rest of the crew, just mentioning that Be Amazed didn't mention the teacher involved
That container catastrophe is probably the reason we couldn’t get toilet paper in 2020! $200 million disaster…that’s a lot of TP!!
The toilet paper shortage was due to people "shitting" themselves because of the pandemic.
I asked my mother if I could stay at home and watch the Challenger lift off. She said "no" and I went on to have a totally ordinary day at school. When I got back, my mother asked me if I heard the news. Flippantly, I said, _"What? Did it explode or something?"_ She then told me, yes, that's exactly what happened. I was *STUNNED.*
Many a true word spoken in jest.
My most expensive mistake was taking an interest in cars at an early age. We have an amazing house & garden, but we probably could have had holidays in space, a mansion, a helicopter, private jet, several holiday homes, a private yacht and a butler....
I had money at a young age to if I invested in Microsoft or Apple i too could have those things
The Challenger Tragedy was jaw droping when I first head about it. However, it was the same reason that gave my elementary school its name; Christa McAuliffe, who was one of the pilots who died that day. She was moralized thorugh this school and will be forever praised as one of the first real "Challengers."
Great comment. I really think your story is cool. Just a tip though, it's Tragedy
@@tinyteddybear814 Just noticed the spell error, thanks XD
Except it was a false flag and that woman never died! Sad but true!
Kinda interesting to note she was a teacher that was added to the mission
@@Zoomzane4 probably, "immortalized", not "moralize."
In some places it is impossible to set a foundation on bedrock. In SE Texas bedrock is more than a mile under the dirt. The skyscrapers need very very deep foundations, but they are not going to get down to bedrock. I think the age of the skyscraper is nearly at an end. Offices needed to be located near each other to move paper from one office to another. Now that it's mostly electronic, an office can be anywhere.
I disagree, I believe that people are just getting started with their ingenuity with things like skyscrapers. Who knows, maybe people will be saying that about studying the ocean floor in 100 years.
There is a common theme in all these disasters that resulted in mass destruction and human death: In almost every instance, the institution was told the disaster was a possibility, but chose to ignore these warnings to save money.
if you do a part 5 anytime soon, I will get you started. The S.S. Moro Castel had been a real luxury ship ack in the thirties. But on the night September 5th, 1934, at 2:50 AM, a fire started in the engine room. It is still unknown how the fire started. But the craziest part was, the day before the disaster, the captain unexpectedly died and if you thought it was old age, well guess what the captain was 45 years old. soon the coast guard came and saved most of the people on board. but sadly 137 people died. mainly by flames or smoke or not able to swim. In total the cost was from the rescue, the towing the ship and scraping it, cost 4 million dollars back in 1934, which is $400,000,000 today.
As A Lebanese I Feel Bad For The Thousands Of People Who Died During That Massive Explosion…very sad :(
I know you want to kill me but that was pretty cool explosion
wikipedia says 218 died
As a citizen on planet earth, I also feel sorry for the Lebanese.
As a Lebanese, I felt the explosion from the mountains in Aaley(عاليه). But the interesting thing is that the spirit of Lebanese is to help each other's, and all the glass covering the roads in Beirut was cleaned up by all the cytisins (I also helped with cleaning)
Don't worry, its just Arabs.
There is something most people fail to remember about the Challenger disaster in 1986. There had been a nation-wide contest among school teachers to send the winner up in the shuttle, so one of the seven "astronauts" was actually the school teacher who "won" the contest.
The gift of death
There a commenter assumed you're sexist.
My 1st grade teacher entered the contest. I bet she's glad she didn't win.
@@m.dewylde5287 No, I really had no idea who "won" the one way trip into death. I put it in quotes because winning is what killed her. That doesn't sound like a win to me. Though I suppose it was the highlight of her life, so at least she went out happy. There is something to be said for that.
@@dannydaw59 My aunt entered it also, and I know she has never been happier to lose.
Boeing 747 Flight 102 crashed in Bagram AFB due to a cargo shift caused by human error from a cargo master not double checking the work of the cargo loaders. The plane was carrying Five MRAP vehicles and one shifted to the tail and caused the crash. The plane cost over 386.8 million dollars and each MRAP cost between 500,000 and 1,million dollars. This doesn't include the loss to all 7 US personnel and the investigation launched to see if terror was to blame.
The Costa Concordia sinking belongs on this list... Salvage cost plus damages were over two billion dollars, plus the six hundred million dollar original cost of the ship. A loss of over 2.6 billion dollars because the captain wanted to make a close approach to shore so he could show off his ship to his mistress.
“Not a mistake, a happy little accident.” -Bob Ross
His Netflix documentary is so incredibly sad. That part of my childhood is forever in shambles.
18:32 ok but can we appreciate how beautiful that explosion is?
19:51 When the Challenger blew up, I was stationed at Adak, Alaska with the Navy. I woke up that morning listening to Tom Brokaw describing the disaster. When I got to work that morning, most of the rest of the crew hadn't heard the news. When Senior-Chief Wolf came in the office and said, "Good morning, Bob!", I said "No, Mike, it's not a good morning."
I'd always heard that you had to REALLY f' up to wind up in Adak! 😄 What did you do?
@@brucelytle1144 I started my Navy career with a tour at Kodiak in 1970; loved it. Well, they turned the base at Kodiak over to the Coast Guard, and only Navy base left in Alaska was Adak. I was glad to get assigned to Adak in 1982 as ET1 at NSGA and then again in 1985 as ETC filling an officer billet at Mt. Moffett Transmitter site. I extended that tour to 1988. Adak was sea-duty for women in the Navy and they needed sea-duty to advance, so the command was 40% female! I was nice seeing all the girls around, but the pregnancy rate was 25%, and each week a plane would take off to Anchorage with a bunch of girls ready to deliver. None of them ever returned to Adak, leaving holes in everybody's rosters with no replacements. The work was interesting, the island was mostly wilderness, lakes and mountains. The Navy spent millions to support morale in this isolated station, and we had plenty of time off. I worked hard to get stationed there.
@@fairwinds610 I was kidding! I've passed by on merchant ships over the years. Ya gotta be able to deal with the isolation! Take care!
At the end of the day... listen to the experts. If an expert tells you something bad is going to happen, hire another expert to verify, and then if they still agree, fix what needs to be fixed. Don't just ignore the problem.
agreed
I wouldn't even wait for verification. An expert is an expert for a reason. Fix problem NOW; verify later. You can never have too much safety.
but that ignores the main driving force behind all cost cutting corners decisions, GREED!
That very morning, I was involved in assembling a used steam turbine generator set in a sawmill in Lincoln, Calif. The contractor was a real low baller and the site manager fired the rental crane operator and told his 17 year old son to operate the crane. I was about 100 feet away from the crane and heard the engine struggling and paid no attention. Then there was a loud bang and something black and oily like a spindle weighing maybe 100 pounds flew by my face 18 inches away. It hit a wheel barrow and punched a hole in it. It turned out that the kid was booming out (extending the boom) without dropping the ''headache ball'' auxiliary winch cable. The ball was stuck at the tip of the boom and its cable was in massive tension. That caused its hydraulic winch drum to burst out of its housing and its reduction gear spool was what flew in front of my face. I had harsh words for the kid's father. The dumb ass kid was laughing about something a few hours later saying that the Space Shuttle crashed. What a smart ass. He was already making jokes about it. This was my first assignment since starting my own Engineering business and I stayed on as I really needed the work. I could have been killed by his incompetence.
@@kimmer6😂
19:09 The Challenger explosion took place on January 28, 1986, not January 18. How could you mess THAT up?
Yo lo vi primero asi que vas pa fuera
Well, this is an episode about mistakes after all...
I heard that and had to immediately rewind to verify what I heard!! I remember exactly where I was, when a friend of mine at the time, ran into the building stating that the shuttle had “blown up”.
I can't belived I miss this part 4 for 10 months!
Well, where were you 😂
Actually in most large shipping canals ships are taken over by officials from the country the canal is in, or owners of the canal. They then command/pilot the ship through for insurance purposes. So it's more than likely the captain of the Ever Given wasn't in command when the cargo ship ran aground. He was possibly just made the scapegoat for the screw up of the official who took over. This was something I heard when the BBC were interviewing a cargo ship captain, about that story, to ask what happens during this operation.
magnitude 9 was the strongest for Japan, yes, but to clarify, there have been even bigger ones in the last 300yrs in Alaska and Chile.
And New Madrid Missouri
I'm a pokemon fan Magnitude 8 is a move
@@akurikongkwaila7355 its Magnitude, but yes...
The biggest earthquake ever recorded, of magnitude 9.5, happened in 1960 in Chile, at a subduction zone where the Pacific plate dives under the South American plate
@@Lawlietsherpa yessir, that was the one i was thinking of... tho there was a 9.0 something a few years ago in Chile as well. very volatile area.
no matter how many billions you have, one mistake cost you everything
The Challenger was the worst. NASA launched at a temperature lower than their own rules allowed for. Each time they violated their own rules, that became the new norm until they just went too far.
Ironic that a video about mistakes lists the date of the Challenger explosion as January 18th, instead of its actual date, ten days later.
There's tons of wrong info on this, and his other videos.
@@crooked-halo yup. Like Fukushima didn't have a nuclear meltdown, if it had, then a nearby plant would have as well and the resulting fallout would have left some insane percentage of Japan uninhabitable.
@@crooked-halo😂😂😂😂
Damn, the most expensive mistake I've ever made was when I backed up a 2014 Toyota Corolla into a..... A GTR🤦♂️. At least the owner was nice and said it was fine and that it'll buff out but I don't think that a GTR front bumper with huge cracks was gonna buff out any time soon. Worst part was my dad got really pissed bcuz the car wasn't even ours. It was my dad's friend's car. And we were also on a trip and this happened in the UK. Soooo watching this video was a real kicker for me. Respect to the deceased And my god I am Amazed with the almost regular uploads of pure content.👍
1 time a friend, not even me, opened my car door and accidentally hit the car next to us, a newer Infiniti, but a little scratch in the paint,difference tho was the guy flipped out and acted like we destroyed his car
@@trentryan27 O_O Infiniti owners I guess? I mean my friends in discord also say that they have a hard time with Infiniti owners especially G35 and G37's
"Unless you live under a rock in 2021, you've heard of the Ever Given" Well... my home is an underground house... sooooo explains why i didn't hear of it.
I never heard of it either.
@@MissChanandlerBong1 its supposed to be EVERGREEN. Not ever given... very annoying mistake in this video
@@eetuthereindeer6671 Thank you! lol Yeah I noticed that discrepancy.
@@midtownmariner5250 oh well. I thought the ship's name reads on the side because that would make sense
@@eetuthereindeer6671 a ships name is usually on the bow, sometimes also on the stern along with the port of registry.
4:50, Evergiven. This scene gave a popular meme as this excavator seemed to push the ship. "This excavator operator has seen too many videos on self motivation"
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Fighter misfire: Fighterjets are supposed to have safeties that prevent the weapons from firing while the aircraft is externally powered (as is normal during maintenance). So did the mechanic forgot to put the safeties on, or were they nonfunctional?
Yeah that Evergreen canal fiasco was definitely costly and we had to pay for it at the stores.
Ever Given was the ship. Evergreen was the company that owned it.
To be fair, few of us have not been given responsibilities necessary to have an opportunity to make these mistakes.
I'd think denying a certain Austrian bloke access to the Vienna Art Academy back in 1908 should've been at least in the top 10...
@2:21 On left that's actually a 30mm round from the GAU-8 "Avenger" for the A-10C Thunderbolt that fine airman is showcasing, standing in front of the aircraft itself. The weapon on the right is the 20mm M61 six barreled rotary cannon what looks to be mounted on a F-15C/D Eagle -- just to clarify to the layman out there.....
Honestly I didn’t expect a part 4 but I’m here for it
Challenger disaster was on January 28th, 1986, not on the 18th.
Page 19:27. It was narrated that the solid fuel booster rocket fractured and exploded was the coat to the disaster. That contradicts evidence on page 19:40 that booster didn’t explode but continued a gyro steered flight upwards. Speculate that the flame out from the solid booster didn’t trigger explosion of the main engine, it was something / someone else.
I've heard that it's possible that the crew of Challenger could have survived the initial explosion.
They have evidence that they did as some of the emergency air packs were activated as they were trained to do in an accident. Tests they did show that even the explosion couldn't have activated them on their own.
They most likely were killed on impact with the water.
I am Train Driver in Germany, and every Train Driver in German is automatically insured for over 2 Million Euros. ... so, if you F* up... make sure it's not over 2 Million
Taking the short route to build a luxury building in a populated area to save $4 million, only for it to sink/tip and put residents and the public at risk. Those responsible for the initial design/build of the Millennium Tower should go to prison for what they have done. I see no upside in this engineering mess.
yep, the original design called for the support pilings to go to the bedrock!!
1:19 Rick Harrison "that's nice but I can given you 15 bucks"
IMO, the Challenger disaster was not, nor will ever be a cause for laughing. Eve now, with so many years passing, I feel incredibly saddened when thinking about the astronauts who died on that flight.
I’ve waited so long for this thanks!
@@danielobrien1571 lady yes long hair nope
Is it me, or does the Japanese Fukushima nuclear disaster sound like a modern time Chernobyl? Also, I'm a bit confused about something, is the guy saying the blast in Chernobyl was more powerful than Japan, or vice versa?
yes he was saying the chernobyl blast was worse than fukushima
Well chenobil was coursed by human error, and Fukushima by the biggest natural catastrophy ever
@@theonesithtorulethemall technically Fukushima was also human error by the people who oversaw the plant's creation
@@theonesithtorulethemall I'm still filing Fukushima under human error -- or let's call it human "I-can't-be-bothered-with-impossible-scenarios". Until the impossible scenarios become reality, that is. All they had to do was move some generators. Heaven forbid they spend a fortune to keep their NUCLEAR POWER PLANT running safely. What is it with nuclear plant directors and their egos? Do they not understand how dangerous these things are? You'd think Chernobyl would be a learning opportunity for the world, but I guess he thought he knew better.
@@theonesithtorulethemall they were warned multiple times that something like that could happen. Its definitely human error
In the 70s in Colorado, people attending a large event were instructed to park in a vacant field of tall grass that no one had thought to mow before hand. The catalytic converters on the cars caught the dry grass on fire resulting in the loss of all vehicles parked there.
Back in the 2000s there was a firework storage in Enschede, The Netherlands that blue up and wiped out an entire neighbourhood. It was a beautiful day so not many people were home limiting loss of life, but in this case no one was aware either the storage existed in the neighbourhood. Firefighters desperately fought the fire to keep it away from the beer plant as it had a giant container or flammable liquid on the roof. If it would catch fire it would have flattened the entire city. Luckily they succeeded, but the damage to the neighbourhood was done.
I was a shop steward at a high end mechanic shop and part of my job was to detail and deliver customer cars. I crashed a rare spec Dodge Viper through the front of someone’s house. In my defense, I was 18 at the time.
I was 7 when the Challenger shuttle went BOOM! When they said it was the 'O' rings, I've always felt like it was the shuttle failing it 'MOT' so to speak! 😊
You need to check the date for the Challenger disaster. I was January 28 1986, I remember this as it was a snow day. They canceled schools.
By far and away, outside of nuclear blasts, the biggest and most devastating mistake of all time was the Beirut blast. The shockwave speaks for itself. Most large blasts have a large fireball shockwave. The Beirut blast however had a visible shockwave made up of highly compressed air traveling at at least the speed of sound. This kind of shockwave is only usually seen in nuclear blasts. This happened pretty much in the middle of a densely populated metropolis causing numerous deaths, and billions in damages. The only shockwave that can compete with it is the rocket fuel plant in Henderson, NV. The only reason that particular blast doesn't make it near the top of the list is Henderson only has about 1% the population of Beirut.
I broke a very expensive piece of machinery that stopped an entire production line until an engineer from the company, who were the only people in the world who could fix it, could be flown from Holland to the UK to repair it. Then a new part had to be custom engineered to replacel
Did you get fired?
How expensive?
Line stoppages are a b8tch, especially when there's no part available to replace the problem or a local repair person. Rare is the manager who has both the authority and foresight to have a plan 'B'.
They had to make a new 'jig' which is the name for the custom built kinda like a mould that shaped the metal components i was producing if thst makes sense. I went to work after going out clubbing all night with no sleep and fell asleep at my station and accidentally fed 3 sheets of metal in instead of one and busted the machine. And oh yes I did get fired, and almost got a good kicking from some of the line managers too. I did feel proper fkn bad though. Like, REALLY guilty. Not my finest hour thats for sure. But in my defence i was only 18, of course im gonna go out at the weekend and this happened on "compulsary voluntary overtime" ... so if you didnt work Saturdays and Sundays you didnt get your end of year bonus and they would also fire you eventuslly. Even though it was in your contract as voluntary and shouldn't affect your employment if you chose to not do it. So it was basically a stitch up. But hey ho, sometimes shit/hangover happens innit
@@sansa23 the machine cost a couple million pounds and i was told i had caused hundreds of thousands in production loss plus the cost of flights and having the machine fixed and a new jig built, the enigineers wages, wages to workers who cant work, it was a LOT
I love watching these!
What went wrong with Challenger was the artifical requirement for the boosters to be segmented in the first place.
It was more screws-up behind back doors. First of course was segmenting boosters for cheaper transport, second was change booster gaskets from expensive alloy composite with wide temperature range to cheap silicone but sensitive for low temperatures. Third was hurry to start ASAP, no matter at night was freezing temperatures and engineers warn bosses about problem but was silenced. And last one - all management fails was sweeped under carpet.
I think any American who was a Kid in 1986 remembers the Challenger explosion live on TV at school..I was 9 years old and in 4th grade. Everyone was cheering on the lift off and then everyone went silent when it exploded. At that age every kid knew we just saw astronauts die.
3:35 He said - the ever given - but a little bit later it shows us a boat that says evergreen??
Evergreen is the name of the line, Evergiven is the name of the ship.
I hope you guys are aware, if you have the gear or team of people to dive and find some of those containers could be very beneficial.
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Pretty sure they did
This channel is ai
Pirates made more den people trying to help
Wish orders
7:52 that blue container holding on for dear life
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I don't understand how the F-16 gun mishap could've happened. I worked on F-16s for 4 years, specifically the weapons system. So many things had to have gone wrong for the gun to fire. The WoW switch had to be depressed, the hold back tool had to have been taken off, the rounds limiter/totalizer had to have been set, etc. So many safety devices and they all failed?
On a convoy in the oilfields my brother fell asleep and rammed a 2.4 million dollar truck into ANOTHER 2.4 million dollar truck. I was there when the boss had his few words with him. Coolest boss ever, he kept his job - but not without some roughneck rampage rhetoric. Whew!
Let’s give this guy a like so he can make great content like this all the time
With lots of wrong information. I gave a dislike.
@@crooked-halonoooo 😅
Nice to see a clip from the disaster classic - Earthquake (1974) - I recognised the woman coming out of the cinema as the female lead - Genevieve Bujold (I think !) i absolutely love this movie !
Yeesh. I really feel bad for those people who lost millions of dollars because of one small typo...
Yup it hurt when I heard him say that
The moral to that story is not just dot your I's and cross your T's but also count your P's.
Thanks for this video. After 30 years of carrying guilt around for a printshop error that cost about $400 to re-print, I can finally relax knowing that my error was very minor compared with the ones shown in this video.
😂 that’s funny! I would carry around that guilt as well….
More tragic part about that space shuttle? An elementary school teacher was among the crew as a publicity stunt for NASA; teacher in space teaching her students from space. I feel bad for those kids, never to see that teacher again...
One kid had homework he didn't put in so clearly relieved Phew
Im a blasting operator/miner, and I handle dynamite, ammonimum....etc and we have REALLY REALLY strict rules for a reason, using, transporting and storing explosives...Im from Norway. But it shocks me how this is so badly stored IDK what to say or think!
These rules were written in blood...
@@realulli what
@@sicario4759 they seem to be referring to the fact that for a safety rule to have been created it almost always involves someone doing what the rule says not to do and generally not surviving it. Pretty melodramatic way of saying it though.
@@jamesheaton5421 People will always be people, for better or worse. But every time in the world, someone misuses legal or illegal explosives, or accidents etc. we get stricter and stricter laws (I guess most parts of the world, but I can only speak from my personal experiencies.) Ofcourse its good and important to have good safety standards, but it also gets our jobs more difficult and time consuming.
@@sicario4759 laws usually get enacted by politicians that feel they need to do something. I don't count them as written in blood. But rules and regulations, that are usually written by people who know what they're talking about? Almost every rule is there because of some event that killed someone. Usually in a particularly grueling way. That goes for just about every area, be it explosives, aviation, construction, boating, ... Aviation is a bit special, because there are slightly different sets of rules based on the (minimum?) knowledge level of the people involved. If you own a plane and fly just yourself, most maintenance requirements are just recommendations. I heard you can easily go twice as long as recommended between overhauls if you take good care of you engine. The rules assume you know what you're doing. If you fly your plane carrying passengers for profit, a totally different set of rules apply. Requirements become mandatory. If you break them, you're grounded. People trust you with their life, that you know what you're doing. However, there were some shady operators who never maintained their plane, something critical failed, the plane crashed, so now these requirements are mandatory and they carry rather stiff fines.
Great video, but surprised you rank The Challenger as number 2 ..... despite the loss in value of the MV Tricolor & it's cargo surely it doesn't come close to the value of the loss of life during that fateful day in 1986 ? I remember watching it live on TV ..... heartbreaking even today, just goes to show that "Time heals nothing, it merely rearranges our memories".
This makes me ding in Minecraft and losing my diamond chest plate a lot more manageable
The collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge is one of the greatest engineering failures ever. It cost $19,450,000 1940 dollars and today that would be around $412 million dollars.
Not sure how expensive it really was, but you should cover the Great Boston Molasses Flood.
Mmmmmm, malty sea
I served in the Navy. I have seen these Merchant vessels going to see with less than skeleton Crews with mixed training and ships Masters who could not to save their souls navigate or handle a ship. All they were were managers everything else was done by a computer and automatic pilot and a great deal of faith. These ships weighing thousands of tons take miles to stop miles to turn. Most of them have Crews of no more than 20 individuals. All they have is a watch crew they have no one to handle emergencies anymore. The crew is woefully lacking in numbers to handle whole breaches or even fires. This is all due to Greed. Couple that grade with a great deal of ignorance when it comes to the the realities that exist on the high seas. If you don't know what you're doing the ocean will kill you without hesitation she doesn't care if you're stupid you deserve to die it's that simple. If you neglect or overlook deliberately of the factors and reality that exists when moving vessels that weigh thousands of tons in a liquid environment. When it comes to the ocean you don't cut corners you don't take anything for granted you have to be aware of where you are and everything that is going on above below and on the ocean for at least 15 miles in any direction.. in the military I have seen companies get away with unbelievable neglect and contempt for life at sea and the value of human life and the environment. All you have to do is study what happened to the Titanic and you will definitely see it was no accident it was greed ignorance and and willful disregard for anything except the pursuit of corporate profit and advancements. This mindset of get a lot for next to nothing has to he sent to the scrap Heap.
You're absolutely right. Corporate greed. Low wages. Like today, Railroad corporations insist that a single conductor on a 2 mile long train with hazardous materials traveling thru numerous cities is sufficient. Corporate greed with no prison consequences.
the pictures and videos from the beirut explosion were just terrifying.