Corrosion Accidents

Corrosion damage can sometimes be greatly exaggerated by the circumstances. While many of the accidents due to a failed corroded components have gone non-public for reasons of liability or simply because the evidence disappeared in the catastrophic event, others have made the headlines. 

•  Aloha incident

•  Bhopal accident

•  Carlsbad pipeline explosion

•  Guadalajara sewer explosion

•  EL AL Boeing 747 crash

•  Explosion due to corrosion by process chemicals

•  F-16 fighter aircraft

•  Nuclear reactor with a hole in the head

•  Piping rupture caused by flow accelerated corrosion

•  Pitting corrosion accidents and incidents of aircraft and helicopters

•  Pollution by oil pipeline releases

•  Silver bridge

•  Sinking of the Erika

•  Stress corrosion cracking of chemical reactor, the Flixborough explosion

•  Swimming Pool Roof Collapse

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