Top 10 Biggest Man Made Disasters - What went wrong?
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for the first one I wasn't shocked once you talked about how much flour and margarine that truck had. Flour in itself is not only flammable but also explosive. One of the most dangerous professions throughout history has been Milling due to just how dangerous having large quantities of Flour and especially Flour Dust in confined spaces.
is flour really that combustible? Not trying to ask stupid questions im genuinely curious
@@Third7Plays It is when in dust form in the air. As a mass it is still flammable, but not explosive. At least that is what I assume, sawdust and powdered sugar being the same
@@Third7Plays it's flammable in itself. Every fine dust is explosive though
The 1917 Halifax explosion should have been on this list.
I believe he's covered that one in a different video a couple of years ago
You're absolutely right! The 1917 Halifax Explosion was one of the most devastating non-nuclear explosions in history. It definitely deserves recognition on this list
@@desoincrediblemoments Fun fact, the Halifax explosion was studied during the invention of the bomb. It's how they calculated the best height at which to detonate in order to achieve maximum damage.
I pause the video to leave this comment. I’m kind of surprised at how little of the Beirut explosion you showed. Because that explosion was filmed from every angle and is absolutely unbelievable. OK back to the video.
sure. also to mention that they stored stategic storage of wheat just near this place and all that tresure was broken and compromised. its was perfect storm.
Same thought here, it was well documented
The price of corruption is measured in human lives.
sadly
Shows how dangerous being careless is
In regard to the KLM PAN AM disaster ; Your statement regarding this event is correct accept one thing. Yes PAN AM was told to take the third exit however that exit was facing the total opposite way of the direction the Plane ✈️ was moving. Therefore making it impossible for the 747 to take that specific exit due to the size of the aircraft.
tenereefay?? Tenerife!
Best Channel on YT! thanks guys :)
8:00 This accident was caused by the KLM captain, who was also the chief pilot of the airline tried to take off without clearance.
The Pan Am didn’t decided to skip the exit, they couldn’t see it due to the sharp turn being hidden by the fog, the pilot called the tower to explain what had happened and said they were continuing to exit 4. Some over lapping radio calls later caused the crash.
Another fine video, with one exception: the ship fire, and it's just one word, but it makes all the difference.
The ammonium nitrate "smoldered" overnight, not "smothered. " Had it smothered, this disaster would have never taken place.
Check out the Halifax explosion! It was pretty crazy!
Not a word about Bhopal disaster? It was more devastating than most part of the list
Keep this vids coming, you're lit.
Unfortunately some of the places covered in this video were also lit... I'll see myself out.
@@Malyficent bruh 😂😂
Couldn’t agree less lil bro
Oh yeah ?
Sick comment
The fact that the worst aviation disaster in history happened on the ground😔
The store of the Dona Paz is so sad. Sulpico Lines was involved in 4 other incidents, the Dona Marilyn, Princess of the Orient, and Princess of the Stars all capsized, and the Sulpico Express collided with the St. Thomas Aquinas which sunk, all in all over 5,000 people died before Sulpico lost their license and no one was ever held responsible by the Philippine government.
I really like the content of this channel
Fireworks near overheated fertilizer.... well done record keepers
The "hey, I'm really sorry" isn't from South Park, its from the movie Falling Down , where a fast food manager denies breakfast to the main character who then brings out a gun and repliea "oh yeah, I'm really sorry too"
It's from south park. There's an episode that has BP apologizing
Gawd his voice is unbearable..
Where's the Halifax Explosion??
Always a treat when underworld uploads a new vid!!
I too have watched Seconds From Disaster
Lmao just joshin, love the video. But anyone who wants more details on each of these, seriously, go watch Seconds From Disaster. A bunch of these incidents are gotten into with much greater detail. One of my favorite shows of all time.
Like the reason for the Tunnel fire only killing people on the France side was due to air pressure differences due to altitude difference on the French side.
I'm surprised to not seeing the Halifax explosion here. It was much bigger, and more deadly than the Beirut blast.
25:00 Mass murder, he's guilty of mass murder.
1.Sabatage a building to make it less structural sounds
2.Add an illegal additional floor ontop of insufficient strutral supports
3.Ignore signs of build degradation
4.Don't tell anyone of imminent build colapse and beleive it enough to leave the build your self.
Therefore he built a building with the knowledge it would kill people.
Yeah he’s a mass murderer in my book
The main reason for them are the fascists say again and again that regulations are evil . There's regulations made to help prevent every major disaster .
From the little I know, a fairly accurate video. Stay away from aircraft accidents, and this channel should do pretty well. The Tennerife disaster I think was pretty accurate however
I have to agree with several other people: why wasn't the Halifax, NS disaster included? Also, why wasn't the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal, India included? The Boston Molasses Flood could also have been included as more people died (21) than in the BP oil spill.
Yoo this stuff is crazy!
Where is Chernobyl? The Piper Alpha disaster? Halifax explosion? Bhopal - the single worst industrial accident in history?
13:46 the weird thing just a few weeks after this accident primark increased there prices
the beruit explosion is still such a big topic to talk about, that its still being talked about again and again. how amazing. I feel like he already did the explosion but I think I've just seen so much that I just assume atp. haha. still a fascinating explosion
How the Frick did the Nova Scotia disaster not make this list?
Chernobyl Disaster.. Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings... Minamata disaster
This video is a powerful reminder of why safety and responsibility should always come first.
The captain of the Grandcamp made the right call, even if it was wrong reason. Not only is water completely ineffective at fighting an ammonium nitrate fire, it actually increases the chances of an explosion.
What went wrong? I'll tell ya - it involved people. We are a fallible egotistical monkey with a chip on our shoulders. We are single handedly ruining the planet.
We are not monkeys now did we evolve from monkeys.
Yeah this why I don't fret the asteroid that might hit us in 2032, I say let it wipe us all out.
Gasoline? No. It was like throwing OXYGEN on a butter fire.
I remember the Deepwater Horizon event! It was on the news almost daily! The first cap they placed on the well was no good. Cap number 2 worked
Is it bad that I'm already pretty familiar with these "lesser known" disasters?
naw.. I'm most surprised about the Beirut port explosion being on the list, given how recent an event it was and being all over the news.. not to mention it was during the first year of lockdowns o-o
No. Most of them are very well known. Stupid title.
22:43 "it's unstable doors..." Lol
my little sisters calls ur music "scary nado music"
shes so cute :(
Does Tenerife have an extra syllable on the end? I've always heard it called 'Tenner-Reef'
In Spanish is pronounced Te (like tense) ne (like in negative) ri (soft r short I) Fe (like in fentanyl) no added sounds. In English is 3 syllables te Nuh Reef
Def pronounced tene-reef-ay
@@Jessa-RM def not
#10 is the most expensive batch of roux ever made.
You forgot about the Minnesota MPLS major I-35W bridge collapse that killed 13 people and 145 injury's of people that are traumatized us all.
Ten-eh-ree-fay 😂
It's Ten-eh-reef.
8:10 From what I've heard in another documentary,
after this incident at Tenerife Airport they started to make a difference in radio comm
between TAKE OFF and DEPARTURE.
Everythig where a pilot is NOT pulling the levers to 100% for take off has to be called /departure/
This shows how dangerous fire can be!
In cases of human rights like the one at 13:00, I think they should held accountable companies using those services too, companies like Primark, when things like this happen, might get a small fine that costs them even less than what they made for using these people as slaves, when it should cost them more than double, so it's not worth it for them to use it and risk getting the fine. This applies to any illegal activity used by companies, they should be fine based on how much money they make, and make it more than they make, so it's a loss, if not, why would they abide by the law, when it's cheaper to not do so.
Most interesting video's 😊
You forgot the biggest man-made environmental disaster in the US. Ever hear of the Kingston Coal Plant ash spill? I think biggest would have made your list.
Your intro was cut too soon 😂
Trump when he drained a lake in CA: "People over fish!"
Soviet Union decades ago: "Cotton for the Soviet People over fish!"
9:26
2,750 tons x 2,000 = 5,500,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate😨
"lesser known“? The whole world was reporting about Beirut for weeks😅
Was the USA living under a rock?
No. It was heavily reported on here.
@6:00.
Smoldered, Not Smothered. Big difference.
0:10 it’s the Gulf of America now, folks. I’m sure his people will be in touch.
😂
No one will call it that lmao only you Americans will call it “the gulf of America” it’ll always be known as the Gulf of Mexico
@ I’m Canadian, so I’m not gonna be calling it that, mate. ‘‘Twas joke, no?
@@ELDIABLO_71 i live in America and there is no way I’m calling it the Gulf Of America.
Ok the blast at the port in Lebanon didn’t almost level the whole city it levelled the port pretty much and did damage some buildings but that’s it
I was leaving my incoming flight to Tenerife when the 2 jumbo jets collided. One of the causes of the crash was due to no ground radar and low cloud ceiling.
Wait, is this a video about man made disasters or a live feed of the oval office?
7>53 sorry your wrong. KLM took off without clearance, Pan-AM was making its way to its exit I believe.
What's the common theme here? It's simple, "GREED!" Proving the point I've been saying for years, Greed kills everything and everyone!
In the Mont Blanc tunnel fire (and the AI closed caption is ABYSMAL!) officially it was hauling margarine. Since it's mostly cooking oil, it would burn much more easily and much hotter than butter fat.
Only half way through and 2 of these involve Ammonium Nitrate which is used in making fertilizer but under the right circumstances can be used to make explosives. It was used in the Oklahoma City Federal building bombing.
History teaches us valuable lessons, but do we really learn from our mistakes?
The Dona paz is not the worst maritime disaster. The Willhem Gustav was.
Yay! Humanity! Number one in destruction 💯👍💀
I know the Titanic and Chornobyl stories yes but I also already know some of the stories you mention in the intro.
Love ur videos! Keep going!😊
You didn't need to abbreviate "you are". This is not a platform where the amount of characters which can be utilized is restricted.
@@the-weirdist wdym bro ur is short for you’r
I meant your
@@Dhunks-s8n No, it's not. It means you are. Anyway, the point is the amount of characters which can be utilized here when commenting on UA-cam is not restricted. Abbreviating words is unnecessary.
@@the-weirdist I, a lazy typer so I type short like “fr”
My dude. It is pronounced Tenereef not Tenereefay.
@20:03 Gulf of America
Still the Gulf of Mexico for the rest of the world and I will ALWAYS called it as the GULF OF MEXICO
@@brolymeng7946 Lol, your mistake is believing that Americans care what the rest of the world thinks.
@@WINTERMUTE_AI bruh😫
So sad!!
A kick? What a lots of BS
The Halifax explosion should have been on here. The Largest non nuclear explosion ever.
3:34
Would be nice to have a simultaneous conversion of feet, gallons and miles into metric....
Why, learn them and use them. We know yours.
@@scottf5072 So switch to ours! It's much more logical and the rest of the world is using it!
What an arrogant!
@@jean-pierrehugotin we know yours as well. What is the ignorant approach? Only knowing one and wanting the rest of the world to switch to you or knowing both?
Top 10 Biggest Man Made Disasters - What went wrong?....You should do Gaza next.
I think the French need to stop calling things the “Mont Blanc”…the name is cursed, lol.
9:06
Wasnt the wilhelm gustloff the worst disaster as well over 9000 people passed
It was in war times, not an accident.The biggest human made horrors - wars- are excludet here.
What about the Halifax explosion?
@@dandar44 this among some others I felt were more widely known, Chernobyl is another. Also, some disasters it’s hard to cover with very limited pics/ footage available
Heart-stoppingly informative. Live long and prosper.🖖😇My condolences to those who perished.🙏
Butterfire heheheheh 3:18
Add the Hollywood fires,that wasn't natural
What? Santa Ana winds aren't natural? Right, it was the ews controlling the weather. Ash.
how would you know? California has been having wildfires for years. you think LA is the only city ruined by wildfires, fool.
@joedatius who said what you are trying to insinuate
Greed
1619/2019 ended your rein. Except it or not.
Shame on that mother for lying to that child and frightening them like that. Hell doesn't exist and when it does Satan will be the only one there. Hell is only intended for Satan, not any of us.
Sadly, Hell actually does exist. You're right that it's only meant for Satan, but sadly, there are also people who reject Jesus's gift of salvation from their sins, and that choice dooms them to go there as well. If Hell doesn't exist, then Jesus's sacrifice and resurrection were for nothing.
@roundlakerailfan6853 I have so many questions, but it's so tedious talking to people like you.
@roundlakerailfan6853 I've got news for you (and every other Christian); hell doesn't exist (nor does heaven, god, or satan). Jesus's alleged sacrifice and resurrection WERE for nothing because they never happened. The story of Jesus dying for our "sins" (another nonexistent thing) is just ancient mythology adapted from earlier so-called "pagan" religions.
@@roundlakerailfan6853god doesn't exist.
No one cares about your beliefs!
Tenerifeee
I was born a year after Chernobyl
So I was 3 years old when you were born.
Ok. Thanks for letting us know.
@@jasonsummit1885 Ok. Thanks for letting us know.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
hope that people that were in the disasters all are ok!
Nope. Did you watch the video?
I used to love this channel showing extreme events, where almost no-one was severely hurt. In recent videos the death toll seems to have skyrocketed for each video. Don't get me wrong, I understand bad things happen, but I have seen more than my fair share of catastrophic waste of life. This channel was my one semi-safe haven to see outrageous events with absolute minimal injury and death toll. I'm sad that seems to no longer be the case.
I know atrocities should be reported, the Lebanaon blast was huge news across Europe and there are countless videos of the event not shown here. If I have a point to what I'm saying, it's just please can we turn down the death toll, I would much rather see a video of an explosion or earthquake etc. where only a few needed medical treatment as opposed to one where more than one person died. Sure this comment is open to ridicule, and I get it. I want to sit in my nice comfy home and look at the fireworks and go 'whoah' without people being harmed. Up until recently this channel absolutely hit that mark. There are plenty of channels exploiting the deaths of others for monetary gain, I just hope this one does not follow that path.
P.S. also a little surprised at the narrators pronounciation of Tenerife from this well documented collision that changed aviation, he's normally so good.
P.P.S. I say this because I care, if I didn't wouldn't comment and just leave.
How about requesting a warning before hand rather then telling them to just NOT post the cases where people die...
@@PupcakesDogCare Yeah that's fair, I know if they don't post it someone else will, and I do respect this channel which is why I want to stick around.
O caso de Bangladesh é o melhor exemplo de capitalismo tardio. A ganância de uns custou a vida de mais de mil trabalhadores. E eles ainda estão soltos, o que é revoltante.
Too much talking no action
No cares about Lebanon
wow that is just crazy how some of that happened
Wow
"we've come a long way since the stone age" wow who is the genius who wrote this script? and anyway the biggest man-made disasters are: wars, fires, ordinance storage, pollution and vehicles. Vehicles alone kill 1.35 MILLION people EVERY YEAR. Kinda makes these examples look lame.
You seem quite lame. Does it make you feel smart to leave such a smug, snarky comment. You must be fun at parties. And wtf are you talking about cars for? This list is about man made disasters, not what causes the most fatalities. You failed.
How many times has this kind of list been presented on other channels? Countless
No. Nobody lost their life in the Lebanon explosion. A loss is not the same as something being lost. Something which is only lost can be found.
There were plenty of deaths in the Lebanon explosion do you research. At least 218 deaths and 7000 injuries
@@mechntechbeau Please learn the difference between a loss and something simply being lost.
As astounding as all this shyte is, I'm very glad that I found you!!! 😊😮😅
EDIT: I wrote this comment before I watched the video. Ooooh my! Usually there are calamities and catastrophes but people don't get hurt! Thousands upon thousands of people died in this episode! 😮 😢
I don't mind but if you wanna pin this you can! I like your videos so keep it coming I have subscribed!
Starved for attention?
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