Incidents
Accidents, outages and disasters, from the first minutes through the investigation and its findings.
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Titan submersible
On June 18, 2023, OceanGate's submersible Titan imploded during a dive to the wreck of the Titanic in the North Atlantic, killing all five people aboard. Debris was ...
LA wildfires 2025
On January 7, 2025, the Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire broke out in Los Angeles County in strong winds, killing 31 people and destroying more than 16,000 structures ac...
Shakahola deaths
In April 2023 police in Kilifi County, Kenya, began finding starving followers of the Good News International Ministries and graves in Shakahola forest, and a Senate comm...
Grenfell Tower fire
In the early hours of June 14, 2017, a fire that began in a fourth floor flat at Grenfell Tower in North Kensington spread up and around the 24 storey block through its c...
Lahaina wildfire
On August 8, 2023, a fire started by broken power lines in Lahaina, Maui, was reported contained in the morning but rekindled in the afternoon and spread through the town...
Surfside condo collapse
Early on June 24, 2021, much of the 12 story Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside, Florida, collapsed, killing 98 people. NIST opened a National Construction Sa...
Air India 171 crash
On June 12, 2025, Air India flight 171, a Boeing 787-8 bound for London Gatwick, crashed into buildings in Ahmedabad shortly after takeoff, killing 241 of the 242 people ...
East Palestine derailment
On February 3, 2023, a Norfolk Southern freight train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, and tank cars carrying hazardous materials were involved in a fire. Three days lat...
DCA midair collision
On the evening of January 29, 2025, a PSA Airlines CRJ700 operating as American Eagle flight 5342 collided with a US Army UH-60 Black Hawk over the Potomac River while ap...
Key Bridge collapse
Early on March 26, 2024, the containership Dali lost electrical power leaving Baltimore and struck a pier of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which collapsed into the Pataps...
737 MAX crashes
Lion Air flight 610 crashed off Indonesia in October 2018 and Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 crashed near Addis Ababa in March 2019, killing all 346 people aboard the two ...
CrowdStrike outage
On July 19, 2024, a faulty content update to CrowdStrike's Falcon sensor caused Windows computers worldwide to crash, disrupting airlines, banks, hospitals and other...
Alaska 1282 door plug
On January 5, 2024, the left mid exit door plug separated from an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-9 climbing out of Portland, Oregon, and the airplane returned and landed safe...