The Most Devastating Man-Made Catastrophes In Human History | Code Red - Disaster Compilation 

I lost three friends and fellow Airmen when Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashed on takeoff due to a pilot error. August 16, 1987, was the worst day in my life, and I will live with the pain for the rest of my life. Karen Englert, age 28, USAF Staff Sergeant Charles Englert, age 27, USAFR Staff Sergeant Charles Englert Jr., age 14 months

An incredible comprehensive compiliation of the worst disasters in terms of loss of life, agonizing death & environmental damage with interviews of experts on the how & why. Excellent, with the lesser known details also given. 10/10

You know you’re old when you remember all of these accidents.

I realize this documentary isn't about the tenirefe disaster exclusively, but my lord your depiction is far more generous to KLM and their poster boy pilot than any reliable documentary and historical record that I've come across.

The Pan Am jet could not make a 45 degree turn on the third exit. This was omitted in this version.

Hell, seeing those plushies, toys and child books in the wreckage of MH17 is one of the most heartbreaking images of that disaster, because we all know what does that mean.

The Columbia crash has had a large and important part of the story omitted here. Nasa KNEW the foam had hit the wing right at the start of the mission, as it filmed and reviewed each take off and the foam coming lose is easily spotted on the footage. They had had some strange readings from sensors in the area and even discussed things they could do to prevent an accident happening, such as get the crew to do a reentry favouring the undamaged side, or even a complete rescue mission, as Endeavour was almost ready to go on her own mission. But they chose to do nothing, content and arrogant in their own designs. The same arrogance that overrode the engineers they should have listened to in the Challenger disaster. Both tragedies were preventable, and I'd bet even now that same arrogance persists and they haven't learned from either. RIP to all those who lost their lives so unnecessarily.

The Concorde was the coolest looking plane ever made.

All my USCSB and NTSB video binging... has prepared me for this moment.

Is not the first time Russia shutdown a passenger plane, they also did this to KAL007 in 1983 killing 269 innocent people.

Halifax Explosion Dec 6, 1917. 2000 people instantly obliterated. 2500+ dead. 10,000+ injured. Thousands homeless, half the city was distroyed. Step,1- explosion. Step 2- shock,wave . Step,3 - tsunami step 4 - historic blizzard .

On Tenerife the Pan Am flight did not miss the 3rd exit, it was a turn which was physically impossible for a 747 to make and they had already passed the 1st exit with 3 remaining. Complicated by non-native English by the controller they were then instructed to take the 3rd exit which, by logical reasoning as shown in CVR playback they assumed had to be the 3rd remaining exit, or 4th overall and due to the overloading conditions and intrusive radio traffic had become imprudent to explicitly confirm repetitively, as they had already attempted explicit confirmation with the controller and the explanation was no clearer with his patience apparently running thin, it was thus reasonable to assume the instruction had to be for the only plausible 3rd exit being the 3rd remaining exit, the only one the 747 was actually capable of making and controllers must have some comprehension of commercial aircraft ground handling capabilities as a basic qualification. This no more contributed to the collision than using the runway for a taxi way to begin with. As the KLM flight had not received take-off clearance it made no difference whether the 747 had left the runway or not, it could just as easily have been another aircraft behind it entering the runway as a taxi way, since KLM took off without clearance on a runway being used as a taxi way. Saying the Pan Am flight shouldn't have been there is like saying female tourists wearing skirts contribute to kidnappings in third world countries.

I seem to always come across videos like this days or hours before a flight for work and I fly at least 40 weeks out of the year for my job and by at least I mean 45 to 48. Either way once we get to 10,000 ft it's no worries.

Regarding the oil spill disasters, what happened to all the oil that got spilled during WWII as submarines torpedoed oil tankers supplying oil to the belligerents? Not all the tankers caught fire after being torpedoed.

OMG I remember when that launch explosion happened! I remember that. I was a child at the time, but it was horrible.

Rip Boeing 747 after retirement 😢😭

military should not fire until they have checked the aircraft

The Iranian air shoot down seems ridiculous to me. You can clearly see it’s not an f14. But I suppose I was not there .

safe than why do things always happen

James Lovell...first time I didn't hear him referred to by Jim

In the 1970s, the Indian government initiated policies to encourage foreign companies to invest in local industry. Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) was asked to build a plant for the manufacture of Sevin, a pesticide commonly used throughout Asia. As part of the deal, India's government insisted that a significant percentage of the investment come from local shareholders. The government itself had a 22% stake in the company's subsidiary, Union Carbide India Limited

Concourde was f'ing gorgeous. I will never wuit crying over it's loss, never

U ever arrived at a party too early?

MH 17 has been shot down by anti aircraft missile

Guess this was before Beirut...

it was not the shuttles it was the equipment that launched it

I am almost halfway thru this and i am too depressed to continue...😢

My condolences to all family members. Life is a risk, only GOD mercy, and protection that is extended to us each second of our life.

I came attracted by the Concord in the thumbnail

0:01 😂😂 love the voice/ accent or what y'all call this. Shpeed😂

I do photography too. With my phone. Maybe it was a selfie from the space shuttle.

The Tenerife tragedy is so inaccurate!!! 100% of the quilt is of the KLM captain!!!! Why you didn't mention him??

1:01:45 I like to imagine that even in China, there's a good 'ol boy there to witness and comment on what's happening "ho-lee shee-it!"

Your experts got the Iran Air's accident location wrong or distorted the facts. The fact remains that, the American warship moved away from the war zone to the path of the commercial plane. They the soldiers shot it because of paranoia.

How many times are they going to say “the Ukraine”? Wild.

Apollo 1, may they rest in peace

The west texas plant fire is the base story of 9-1-1 lone star in Hulu

Drill baby drill !!!

It seems like man is always making his own disasters. That’s really too bad, especially when it comes to deadly disasters.✈️😄

Can you imagine finding out the highlight of your life the coolest moment of your career your most badass moment turned out to be you perpetrating a war crime on innocents, sleep qell

2:22:05 - Brilliant answer - nothing is ever that simple! 2 :

Damn I’m the 3rd one

Trigger-happy, overly-ager, soldiers. Why TF didn't they just intercept with our own planes? Or just leave it? or double-check xommercial air schedules, FFS!?

They kept referring to MH370 as MH17, but otherwise it was a good video. EDIT: it’s just been pointed out to me that this wasn’t about MH370, it was the story of another plane entirely. Apologies to the creator - I feel a complete jackass!

Challenger 7 astronauts DID NOT DIE!

Pepcon was a disastrer waiting to happen

2:09:40 is that a kangaroo?😳

At 2:18:33 nice but not the Pacific

We choose to go to the Moon and do the other thing,what was the other thing

1 person survived the KLM and Pan am accident as she didn't get on the aircraft

Sunbathing in radiaion..??

Because of the Oil of Deep Horizon shut down fishing. BUT The FISHING wildlife ACTUALLY recovered to Greater numbers than before!!!! So actually the fish of the fishing industry got better!!!! Chernobyl (LOL) is actually due to an operator spilling a Pepsi soda on a control switch while an argument was going on about Coke or Pepsi!!! Isn’t the town around Chernobyl found animals still ALIVE years afterwards Nyet?!

Reopen 3 mile island

Good job that the union carbide story is included with the horizon oil spill just to remind Americans of what there own companies are capable of while moaning about “British petroleum”

yall need to add the beruit blast to this list very relevant incident

Dolls surviving but not humans speaks a lot.

Not safe if you fly Boeing

I LOVE the thought of the Concorde being affordable only to the considerably wealthy. Was it flying at full capacity at the time?? I really do hope so. Wonder if they knew that they had nothing waiting for them in the afterlife, as they'd already received their 'rewards' here on earth...??

Concorde crashed because Air France overloaded the plane. It should've been able to fly & gain altitude with only 2 of 4 engines working. But Air France loaded too much weight on the plane, so losing 2 engines became a death sentence & the plane slowly lost altitude before crashing into a hotel. Predictably the French govt focused exclusively on the tire puncture/fire, while ignoring the profit-over-safety practices at Air France that actually doomed the plane, which would've implicated Air France executives.

How can you mistake a small fighter for a huge airliner if you have binoculars. Even without binoculars . I have this air traffic app, and can clearly see most airliners at 40,000 ft without binoculars. No excuse!

How could we make things safer? Find some way to keep tyrants out of all governments.

Iran Air Flight 655 squeak the transmission to the US Navy warship the USS Vincennes they use the system called IFF (Identification Friend or Foe)

Im really starting to wonder who funds these documentaries. At times they're very well researched and factual and yet (often times strategically sprinkled in) they're also very biased and seem to be trying to protect certain corporations and industries by downplaying their knowledge.

The Malaysia flight was a terrorist/ suicide bound Muslim extremist pilot ,but the Government Didn't want the world to know that it was one of their own to avoid conflict with the western nations if they knew the truth about a terrorist pilot..

Damn im the first one

I'll never fly

Space travel, that's a laugh. Even funnier, is anybody landing on the moon. G-d bless.

The narrator sounds like a mix of Trump and JFK… Donald Kennedy

Society is what caused these accidents. MONEY MONEY MONEY PURE GREED