Massive Engineering Mistakes

In Texas, a refinery explodes with deadly consequences.

In New York, a construction crane crashes into an iconic bridge.

In Italy, a catastrophic crane collapse on a major construction project.

Look up at the towering cranes that rise above New York City’s iconic skyline and ponder their destructive power. Examine how high winds caused a high-rise crane to collapse, dropping its 170-metre boom and killing an unsuspecting passerby.

The Almuñecár bridge is a key link in Spain's highway, which connects cities along its Mediterranean coast. Whilst workers were installing a sixty metre steel structure more than forty metres up in the air when a massive scaffold collapsed, plunging to the valley floor below, killing six construction workers.

When it opened in the thirties, Vienna's Reichsbrücke was an incredible feat of civil engineering, a more than five hundred metre long magnificent chain bridge supported by two thirty metre high pylons. But in the seventies, the bridge collapsed, plummeting into the Danube River below.