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List of modern infrastructure failures

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Infrastructure includes the basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise, or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function. This entry aggregates articles on and lists of modern infrastructure failures by category (type of infrastructure).

Contents

Structural

  • Structural failures and collapses
  • Collapsed buildings
  • Bridge failures
  • Dam failures
  • Category:Dam disasters
  • Levee failures and breaches
  • Catastrophic collapses of radio masts and towers

    • Electrical and utility

  • Power outages
  • 2007 New York City steam explosion
  • Electric power blackouts

    • Transportation

  • Lists of rail accidents
  • Accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft
  • Airship accidents
  • Accidents and disasters by death toll
  • Road accidents
  • Airliner accidents and incidents caused by in-flight structural failure
  • Airliner accidents and incidents caused by mechanical failure

    • Nuclear

  • Nuclear accidents
  • Nuclear and radiation accidents
  • Military nuclear accidents
  • Civilian nuclear power accidents
  • Nuclear accidents and incidents

    • Space

  • Space Shuttle: Columbia disaster, Challenger disaster
  • Space accidents and incidents

    • Other

  • Engineering failures
  • Collapsed oil platforms

    • References

    List of modern infrastructure failures Wikipedia
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