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
- Prudhoe Bay 2006 Oil Spill
- Silver bridge
- Sinking of the Erika
- Stress corrosion cracking of chemical reactor, the Flixborough explosion
- Swimming Pool Roof Collapse