Suggestions for engineering diasters paper?

[JyN]

I have to write at 15 page long research paper on an engineering disaster. So far i have thought about doing the boston molasses disaster, anyone of a hundred bridge collapses, or plane crashes. Can anyone give some good suggestions for an engineering disaster? Something that is really well documented is what i need.

All of these are forbidden topics:

• Sinking of the Titanic
• Space Shuttle Challenger or Discovery
• Tacoma Narrows Suspension Bridge
• Kansas City Hyatt Regency Walkways Collapse
• Chernobyl Nuclear Accident
• 9/11 (World Trade Center)
• Love Canal
• Sampoong Shopping Centre
• Ford Pinto
• The Concorde Crash
• Quebec Bridge
• East Cleveland Gas Explosion
• Bhopal Gas Disaster
• BP Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
• Chilean Mine Collapse

 

[NobodySpecial]

Tay bridge collapse - Scotland around 1880 ?

 

[berkeman]

Timely ones:

San Bruno (California) high pressure gas main explosion and conflagration

http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_16041191?nclick_check=1

Chile mine disaster and rescue

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101009/ap_on_bi_ge/lt_chile_mine_collapse_americans

 

[AlephZero]

The de Havilland DH106 (Comet) aircraft failures (1952-54). This was when the aircraft industry found out the hard way that fatigue life and stress concentrations are important.

 

[JyN]

Great suggestion #4. I'm guna do that :D way better than a deadly wave of molasses.