
Modern Marvels
Often a huge calamity is traced back to a tiny cause, but triggering a domino effect.

Often a huge calamity is traced back to a tiny cause, but triggering a domino effect.

A steam-pipe explosion in Manhattan; Boston's Big Dig highway project; Mannheim, Germany, air show.

Offshore oil rig sinks; golfer's plane malfunctions; dam fails.

The Baldwin Hills dam collapse in Los Angeles; a wing separates from a passenger plane.

Maritime and engineering disasters: Edmund Fitzgerald sinking, Boeing crashes, nuclear meltdowns.

From a massive oil spill to refinery blaze to a downed plane, find out what went wrong.

Hazardous-material shipment; classified government materials.

Food trucks are hitting the big time; across much of America, they're changing the way people eat.

Engineering failures: sinkholes, landslides, airport collapse, plane crash, and ship sinking.

Hurricane Katrina flooded 80% of New Orleans due to levee failures and old pumping systems.

Milwaukee ironworkers' fall, coal mine explosion, radiation exposure, and sea disasters.

Industrial disasters: BP Refinery explosions, airline crash, dioxin contamination, Skylab, fires.

The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald; the Buffalo Creek Dam disaster.

Denver International Airport baggage disaster; Texas A&M bonfire; M-4 Sherman tank.

Often a huge calamity is traced back to a tiny cause, but triggering a domino effect.

A steam-pipe explosion in Manhattan; Boston's Big Dig highway project; Mannheim, Germany, air show.

Offshore oil rig sinks; golfer's plane malfunctions; dam fails.

The Baldwin Hills dam collapse in Los Angeles; a wing separates from a passenger plane.

Maritime and engineering disasters: Edmund Fitzgerald sinking, Boeing crashes, nuclear meltdowns.

From a massive oil spill to refinery blaze to a downed plane, find out what went wrong.