10 Human Mistakes That Made the World Stand Still 

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The Tenerife accident is probably the most terrifying thing on this list that isn't Chernobyl.

The Bhopal India disaster would be a good one to list on a list like this too.

I was on the playground of my elementary school when The Challenger exploded. I live in Tampa. When we looked to the East during shuttle launches, we could see them in the sky here. They were far enough away that you couldn't hear them. But, you could see them. I saw what happened to Challenger and told my teacher. She didn't believe me. Then the announcement came over the intercom a few minutes later. I actually witnessed it.

The CrowdStrike incident is everything Y2K dreamed of being

“Do you remember where you were when you heard about these?” Well, when the Titanic sunk, I was in a past life as an Octopus in the North Atlantic and had my sleep interrupted by this giant steel hull bumping my head as it rushed downward.

Scrubbing the launch of the _Challenger_ to repair or replace the failed O-ring would likely mean such a tragic event would never have occurred.

I was in middle school when the Challenger exploded. we were all in the library watching it on TV when it happened. I still remember it to this day. it was devastating. seven people lost their lives including school teacher Christa McAuliffe.

My class and I were watching the Challenger launch live in school. It's a day I will never forget for as long as I live.

During the Civil War, West Virginia split from Virginia, siding with the Union while Virginia fought for the Confederacy. This internal conflict, often called the "Civil War within the Civil War," highlighted the stark divide between the two regions. Despite West Virginia's allegiance to the Union, in a curious twist of historical memory, the state has a statue of Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson in its capital. This has overshadowed its true ally and hero, Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes, who led Union forces to victory at the Battle of Cemetery Hill, a key moment in securing West Virginia's statehood and loyalty to the Union.

Clearly we don’t learn from history. Which explains why we’re constantly repeating it.

The Tenerife accident happened by the KLM captain refusing to listen to the instructions he was given, he was demanded the best pilot in the world and very rarely flew as he’d train new recruits. He was very arrogant as well to everyone, 1 simple mistake cost him his life and the other 582 people.

If you're making a list of historic catastrophes caused by human error, you really need to include the Halifax Explosion. ~1,900 dead, over 9,000 injured from the largest man-made (albeit accidental) explosion of the pre-atomic age. Caused by a French munitions ship catching fire and eventually exploding after a collision with another ship. The force of the explosion was equivalent to 2.9 kilotons of TNT.

The soviets tried and failed to cover up Chernobyl

I remember the Challenger disaster very well. I was working for an electrical construction firm, was on my lunch break, and heard about the explosion that destroyed the shuttle, killing the crew

Moral of the story: People are stupid

When ice forms on a launch pad in Florida, mother nature is telling you to reevaluate

Many mistakes and bad decisions were made that led up to the Titanic disaster. As someone said "anything that could go wrong, did go wrong" for Titanic

Perfect video to watch for my lunch break

All the technology we have and we still can't put out fires

The Tenerife Disaster is one of the worst aviation disaster in history. I saw the documentary about it and it is very disturbing and sad. This could have been avoided if that terrorist attack hadn’t occurred and that the Dutch pilot didn’t added extra fuel into the plane which added weight when the plane was trying to take off, which caused the explosion.

My grandma called me while I was watching the news of the Challenger to tell me my father was dying. So, no. I will never forget

Engineers say no, management says yes... a problem as old as capitalism.

It would be nice if you would balance the volume between your narrator and the clips. I had to turn it up to hear him, then the clip would blast me because it was too loud.

The Titanic may not have sunk, If only Captain Edward Smith took the ice berg warnings seriously...

the Crowdstrike while a TOTAL shitshow was little funny mainly cause it happened during a furry con so ppl joked that all the ppl who can fix it were there XD

#6 Proves that slow and steady, and obeying warning signs can unknowingly save lives.

I actually just finished rewatching Chernobyl a second time last night. What a mess. Craig Mazin wrote it well.

“Do you remember where you were when these events happened?” Hmm, I can’t remember much about where I was or what I was doing in 1912…. 😅

Stalin did not want a war, when germany reached the outskirts of moscow stalin was nowhere to be found. After 3 days they finally reached him, but he had given up at that point. His staff talked to him and that he must fight. Then and only then did stalin go to war.

I'm surprised they mentioned Gettysburg! Cause Pickett's charge honestly shouldn't have happened to begin with, it was a suicide charge and the forces were too spread in other skirmishes in the area. And Lee lost his right hand Jackson 2 months earlier, and his calvary General Stewart got there late and Lee had NO IDEA of the forces he was against. And Handcock whooped everyone's butt lol Side note of Exxon Valdez, there's a really in depth explosion on Wonderly that explains how Exxon railroaded that Captain.

Surprised the Halifax disaster didn’t make this list.

Deepwater Horizon, Challenger, Chernobyl don't completely qualify as mistakes. People knew they was something wrong about them.

How about piper Alpha??

Hitler losing and the Confederates losing cost the world dearly. Interesting take.

The Titanic should still be above the sea. 🎉

I remember where I was when the Titanic sunk!

(This happened before before i was born) My dad used to work at the Nuclear powerplant in Doel, Belgium... one morning, they came in for their shift and the radiation alarms went off... They all had to be decontaminated by using the showers... they were looking for the origin of the radiation.. and it was from outside. Dad called home and ordered everybody inside and close the windows.. a couple of days later Chernobyl was on the news... Some time later, my dad and a frind of his were working somewhere, his frined works as a pipe inspector.. and because of that, he allways has a dosimeter with him.. it suddenly went off... it turned out that the milk from Germany was contaminated...

1. Crowdstrike 2024=I was at work and couldn't log into the app that tracked my work hours 2. Deepwater Horizon 2010=Just out of college and job hunting. 3. Cedar Fire 2003=Senior Year in High School 4. Chernobyl April 1986=I was a one year old but mom remembers same goes for the last entry 5. Challenger January 1986=I was not one yet. All other events, I wasn't even born yet.

Damnit! When will we ever learn?

Another accident that featured human error was the Piper Alpha accident in July 1988. On July 6th 1988, the crew on the Occidental Petroleum oil platform, Piper Alpha, think they're on a routine day, when one of the Condensate Pumps tripped (stopped working). Despite repeated attempts to restart it, the crew cannot get it going. In desperation, they switch to an alternate pump that was signed off as not being in service, requiring maintenance. However, there was a problem. Unbeknownst to those trying to get the production of oil flowing again, although the pump's maintenance hadn't started, the same couldn't be said for its Safety Valve. Work on this valve had started during the day shift, but crucially wasn't finished when the day shift ended. Although a flat metal disc was placed over the hole, it was only loosely tightened, just finger tight. As a result, when the second pump was started, a major release of Condensate occurred, which led to the first explosion at 10PM. In the end, by the time the series of explosions and fires had largely died down, and the 20,000 Ton platform had all but completely collapsed and sunk to the bottom of the North Sea, 167 people, including 2 rescue workers, lost their lives

On the night of 27 January 1986, I had overnight duty in Monterey CA. My Dad called and asked if I saw the news. I told him I didn't. I watched it as he waited on the telephone. I was shocked. He retired on the 26th from Rockwell International, one of the companies that worked on the Apollos and Shuttles. It was his computer that detected the issue but because of cutbacks, no one was actually watching the terminal. He was hired on as a sub-contractor after that to do the same job he did before but received contractor pay plus retirement pay.

Do I remember where I was when I heard about the Titanic sinking?? How old do you think I am???

5 years probation for killing 15 ppl is insane!!! Accident or not, he destroyed ppl's lives!!! What in the world??

The Hindenburg should be on this list

TENERIFE SHOULDVE BEEN #1

Russia has a small Western border: but the territory very quickly flares outwards to both the north and the south. If you aren't able to spread your forces to cover all of that, you'll be flanked very quickly. Plus you need to have LONG supply lines to reach Moscow.

I expected The Lahaina Inferno in Maui, Hawaii. I’m born and raised on Maui, and it is tragic this happened to Lahaina, so many memories obscured by empty ruins.

I don't remember much about the deepwater horizon incident, but I will always remember the news coverage of the following oil spill. My parents followed the story closely, so I would often walk in on them watching news coverage on it. I also remember the IT outage. I got lucky that I had the day off from work, so I was not personally affected. However, my poor coworkers were. They couldn't run the registers due to the outage, and because of that they basically had to close the store and focus on other things to turn the store over for the next morning when everything was sorted out. I was alive for the Ceder fire, but I was only a toddler at the time so I don't have any memory of any news coverage from it.

Those who fail history are doomed to repeat it!

Well, where was I at the night of the sinking of the Titanic? 🤔😅

My dad and father in law both worked for Morton Thiokol when the shuttle exploded. My whole small town worked there, it was a big deal around here.

I think the biggest factors to the sinking of the Titanic all those years ago were among the following 3 factors. First, there was the Titanic moving at a speed so high she was just cruising under her maximum speed. Second, there was the rush of the former Second Officer who accidentally departed the ship at the last minute with the key to the locker in which binoculars were kept since Titanic was built before sonar systems were invented. And of course, the third and final nail to the coffin of this mistake, the lack of life boats due to laws that only allowed ships like Titanic to carry 20 life boats like she did.

Where was I.. Well for several of them I'm pretty sure I didn't exist 😅

Only numbers 10, 8, and 6 happened after I was born. I didn’t know about number 8 until just now, I remember hearing about number 6 when it happened, but as for the Crowdstrike incident, I started working at Midway Airport in Chicago just a month and a half before that occurred. When it happened, I thought my computer was affected as I thought Crowdstrike was part of a monthly Windows system update. Although I was relieved to know that my computer was okay and that Crowdstrike wasn’t even on my system to begin with, I was still expecting to witness the chaotic aftermath of the incident upon walking into Midway that late afternoon. To my surprise, things went as if nothing happened, and very few people at Midway were even talking about it.

I was 6 when Chernobyl happened and my dad was stationed in Vladivostok.

I was a young woman on the Titanic when it sank. My fiancee, Cal, called it "the ship of dreams".

I believe The Titanic was one of them

Pretty sure after 5 minutes, the sounds and crackling of fire could still be heard from the 1977 airplane disaster.

I was toddler in Germany where my dad was stations. My poor mom had to keep two 2 yo's inside for 2 weeks. We still have our red "Chernobyl bumps" and my little sister who was barely conceived at the time also has a couple.

3:57 Napoleon had been steaming in there 100 years before saying "Oh, I'm going to kill them, I'm going to kill them... Oh IT'S A BIT COLD, IT'S A BIT COLD! ... Okay, Okay, bad idea..." And then Hitler said "I've got a better idea, I've got a better idea, OH Its the same idea, IT'S THE SAME IDEA!" -Eddie Izzard

Saying Pickett's charge made the world stand still is wild. Grant and Sherman were likely happy that it happened. I can see them laughing their asses off.

🇵🇭 Ever watched Snatch? Farina coming back to the us was asked, "Anything to Declare?, He answered "Don't go to England" .. Like some of these places and work place.. yeah .. don't Go to that place ..

I was in my high-school chapel watching the challenger explode and fall.

The driver of Archduke Franz Ferdinand who made a wrong turn of the car?

Pretty sad and crazy. But, that’s what happens when people either don’t listen or they push themselves too far to wanting to get things done quickly without thinking about the consequences.

There's more world than USA. Just saying.

Oh dear some human made BIG Mistake.

I came here for herambe Rip the world hasn’t been the same since

Weird list, nr 10 Crowdstrike then nr 9 Pickets charge :D

The sad thing about the Titanic is that her sinking could've been avoided even after they saw the iceberg. If they'd just slowed down as much as possible and collided directly instead of turning, the whole side wouldn't have been ripped up. She was made to be able to continue with two flooded compartments and could stay afloat with 3 - maybe even 4, so even though there would still have been a significant amount of damage and injuries, it sure beats the alternative.

So a man lost in the wilderness accidentally killed 15 people and destroyed 3,000 buildings to save his own life.

Challenger disaster and Chernobyl, I was in my senior year of high school

So you’re telling me if the computers go down then pen and paper doesnt exist??

Bhopal?

The Chernobyl Nuclear Meltdown.

The firework party that led to a motorway crash. Don't light fireworks next to a road.

I thought 9/11 would be on this list for sure

Germany invaded USSR (Ukraine, belarus and Lithuania first of all), it took some time before even getting close to russia exclusively and the operation Barbarossa was successful but the aftermath wasn’t

Thanks for so meaningful and valuable video as always ❤❤❤

Missed this

Chernobyl - I was at school. Titanic, Gettysburg, WW2 - not born yet. Did not really take notice of the other disasters. I remember the rocket explosion on TV, I was at home watching. Wasn't there the first female astronaut on bord as well? I would have liked to see the Hindenburg here as well as it was a human error case. Also, there are probably many more war scenarios that resulted in disaster due to human error.

Yeah I remember, Exxon Valdez was my 10th birthday

Why is the US civil war in a video about the world standing still?

Ha, I knew the Chernobyl disaster was at number 1!!

What about the Columbia disaster?

I am pretty sure war blunders don't count. The other side takes advantage if the blunder rather than standing still.

Deep water horizon happened 3 weeks after my 10th birthday

What about Munich Olympics Tragedy, Uruguayan Air Force Plane Crash in 1972 which 16 men survived.

You guys forgot about the costa Concordia disaster the ship sailed too close to the island and struck a rock formation on the sea floor which caused it to partially sink landing unevenly the captain abandoned ship and 32 people died

Two of the events happened in 1986 before I was born on the same year

The Deepwater Horizon disaster was only caused by corporate greed..

to err is human

What about the London plane crash? When two planes went into each other?

1986: The "CH" year-Challenger and Chernobyl.

Oh, how foolish we were for creating these horrible catastrophes!!!!!!!!!!!!

watch mojo? watch volume! (please?)

Really the only one I was there for was the most recent one, I was non existent for the rest.

Deepwater Horizon is not a worse mistake than Operation Barbarossa

yo, awesome that you make this many videos and all, but can you please not forget to equalize the audio please? my ears are being blasted to hell