7 Appalling Accident in The World

Titanic Sinking
Despite hundreds of years of sinking, the Titanic still remains charming. Popularity Titanic was also raised by a Hollywood movie, 'Titanic' made by the director, James Cameron, who talked about the romance in the most luxurious cruise ships in his day was.

Titanic sank perhaps the most famous accident in the world. But recently we made a list of top 10 most expensive. On April 15, 1912, Titanic was the first cruise ship and is considered the most luxurious ship ever built. More than 1,500 people lost their lives when the ship ran into an iceberg and sunk in cold water. The ship cost $ 7 million to build (about $ 150 million dollars if calculated at this time.)

Hindenburg Blimp Explosion in 1937

On May 6, 1937 at 19:25 pm German Zeppelin airship Hindenburg burned in a few minutes while trying to dock with the pile fastener at Air Force Station Lakehurst in New Jersey, United States. In a notorious incident that killed 35 people, of all 97 passengers who boarded the Hindenburg.

Leakage of Chemical Plant in Bhopal India

Gas leak tragedy that befell a chemical factory owned by Union Carbide, December 3, 1984, leaving a deep wound for the residents of Bhopal, India. Until now, victims of the Bhopal tragedy is still fighting for their survival. From inhaling hazardous gases, they are now suffering from various diseases. In fact, they do not have any more money for treatment because unable to work due to weak physical condition.

This disaster triggered by a leak of methyl isocyanate 25 tons of gas from storage tanks owned by Union Carbide. Hazardous gases are then spread and thousands of poor people inhaled Bhopal. As a result, about 15 thousand people were killed and half a million others suffer from various kinds of diseases. Bhopal residents believe, Union Carbide gas storage area not clean up after the closure of the chemical plant. So allegedly, which still lags poison gas supply drinking water of residents.

Chernobyl Nuclear Plant Accident in Ukraine

On April 26, 1985, at 1:24 AM, Unit 4 Nuclear Power Plant Chernobyl exploded. Occurs twice a huge explosion within 3 seconds, which has undermined the roof of the building. Radioactive gas, collapsed buildings, and materials derived from the reactor building, thrown into the air as high as two-thirds mile (1 km). Pieces of debris reactor fuel into a hot flying through the air and fell within a range of nearly 1 mile (1.6 km) away, lit a radioactive fire that lit the area.

Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion in 1986

Space shuttle Challenger was destroyed 73 seconds after takeoff on January 28, 1986 due to a faulty O-ring. He failed to close one of the joints, which allows the outside air pressure in the gas. cause the external tank for liquid hydrogen bubble up causing a massive explosion. The cost of replacing these aircraft is $ 2 billion in 1986 ($ 4.5 billion in today's dollars). The cost of investigation, problem correction, and replacement of lost equipment cost $ 450 million in 1986-1987 ($ 1 billion this year).

Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in Alaska in 1989

One of the biggest disasters in mining is the biggest oil spill due to leakage of oil super tanker ship Exxon Valdez oil company owned by Exxon. Not only the biggest losses due to its oil spilled by the Exxon Valdez carried but also the biggest environmental disasters in history caused.

The incident had occurred more than 20 years ago, exactly on March 24, 1989, when the ship has a length of 300 megs, 50m wide and 27m high which is the largest tanker that time and also still include one of them is currently sailing from the terminal point Aleyska Consortium pipeline in Alaska to California by bringing about 200 million liters of crude oil.

The ship struck an iceberg that floated. As a result of the spill was about 11 million liters of contaminating the sea which is actually a nature preserve.

After investigation, it turns out it is not only caused by natural factors but the Captain Joseph Jeffrey Hazelwood has a fairly high level of alcohol in his blood. He was fired immediately after the incident.

Tragedy Lumpur Lapindo

The tragedy of 'Lapindo Mud' began on May 27, 2006. This event becomes a tragedy when the flood of hot mud from flooded rice fields, human settlements and industrial zones. This is reasonable given the volume of sludge is estimated at about 5,000 to 50 thousand cubic meters per day (equivalent to 690 full load truck sized containers). As a result, this mudflow bring tremendous impact to the surrounding community as well as for economic activities in East Java: a pool of up to as high as 6 meters in the settlement; total residents who were evacuated more than 8200 people; home / residence damaged as many as 1683 units; agricultural area and plantations damaged by more than 200 ha, more than 15 factories that were flooded to stop the activities of production and laying off more than 1873 people; non-functioning of educational facilities; damage to the environment of areas that tergenangi; destruction of infrastructure facilities (electricity and telephone networks); impaired segment Malang-Surabaya toll road which also resulted in production activity in the region Ngoro (Mojokerto) and Pasuruan which during this is one of the main industrial area in Java Timur.3