In 1988, a midair collision sent burning planes into a massive crowd gathered to watch an air show at the U.S. airbase in Ramstein, Germany; 70 people died and hundreds were injured in one of the worst air show disasters in history.

On June 29th, 2009, a tanker train derails and then explodes in the seaside Tuscan town of Viareggio, killing 34 in one of the worst rail disasters in Italian history.

On July 17, 2014, a missile destroyed Flight MH17 in the skies above the Ukrainian town of Hrabove close to the front line in the Donetsk region, where Russian-backed rebels clashed with the Ukrainian army.

In 1999, a devastating fire killed 39 people inside the tunnel that runs under Mont Blanc, between Italy's Valle d'Aosta and France's Chamonix, as the engineering marvel ended up as a deadly fire trap.

The July 24th, 2010 disaster at the Duisburg Love Parade electronic dance music festival left 21 young people crushed to death and changed crowd management forever.

A massive blast and the resultant devastating shockwave left more than 200 dead, 600 wounded and 300,000 without homes on August 4, 2020, when a warehouse of ammonium nitrate exploded in the port of Beirut, Lebanon.