Disasters happen all the time,  some are larger than others,  some do more damage than others.  Anything on a large scale is fascinating and disasters are no exception.  The top 10 worst engineering disasters probably aren't actually the top 10 but they are all rather interesting and we can possibly learn something from them.

As Norman Simenson states however, "Engineering disasters are always the result of bad management and never the result of bad engineering"

We are always going to be human,  so mistakes are impossible to remove completely,  and nature will always be unpredictable.  We can't avoid disasters but we can plan to help reduce their impact.

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