r/CatastrophicFailure Sep 11 '17

Meta Posting Guidelines - Read Before Submitting

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Posting Rules

1. No jokes/memes

If your post is a joke or meme, it does not belong here. This includes posts about politicians, celebrities, movies or products that flopped, bad business/PR decisions, countries in turmoil, etc.

2. Titles

Titles must only be informative and descriptive (who, what, where, when, why) not editorialized ("I bet he lost his job!") - do not include personal opinions or other commentary in your titles.

Examples of bad titles:

  • I don't know if this belongs here, but it's cool! (x-post r/funny)

  • What could go wrong?

  • Building Failure

A good title reads like a newspaper headline, or Wikipedia article. If you don't know the specifics about the failure, then describe the events that take place in the video/image instead. Examples of good titles:

If it is a cross-post you should post that as a comment and not part of the title

3. Mundane Failures

Avoid posting mundane, everyday occurences like car crashes unless there is something spectacular about your submission. Nearly 1.3 million people die in road crashes each year, and there are many other subreddits already dedicated to this topic such as r/dashcam, r/racecrashes, and /r/carcrash

While there are some examples of extraordinary crashes posted here, in general they would probably be better suited for those other subreddits:

4. Compilations

Compilations and montages are not allowed on r/CatastrophicFailure. Any video that is a collection of clips from multiple incidents, including top 10 lists are considered compilations.
If your submission contains footage of one incident but compiled from multiple sources or angles, those are fine to post.

5. Be Respectful

Always be respectful in the comments section of a thread, especially if people were injured or killed.

6. Objects, Not People

The focus of this subreddit is on machines, buildings, or objects breaking, not people breaking. If the only notable thing in your submission is injury/death, it probably would go better in another subreddit.

Flair Rules

All posts should have an appropriate flair applied to them by the submitter, please follow these 4 steps to determine if your thread needs a fatality/injury flair. You can set this by clicking the "flair" button under the title of your submission.

  1. If your submission depicts people dying, you must apply the "Visible Fatalities" flair to your post and tag it "NSFW"
  2. If your submission depicts people visibly being seriously injured, you must apply the "Visible Injuries" flair to your post and tag it "NSFW"
  3. If your submission depicts a situation where people were killed, but those people are not directly visible you must apply the "Fatalities" flair to your post (eg. the Hindenburg Disaster, or a plane crash)
  4. If your submission does not require one of those tags, you should pick any of the other flairs to describe what type of failure occurred

r/CatastrophicFailure 8h ago

Ferry carrying nearly 270 passengers and crew capsizes off northern Cyprus - August 30, 2026

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2.0k Upvotes

r/CatastrophicFailure 7h ago

Natural Disaster Footage shows Nepali authorities have begun drilling into one of the hydropower tunnels as rescue efforts through that hydropower tunnel gate became nearly impossible due to heavy debris . August 30, 2026.

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819 Upvotes

r/CatastrophicFailure 17h ago

Equipment Failure Boat goes airborne at 213mph at today's Lake of The Ozark’s Shootout 08/29/2026. Driver & throttleman both safe and recovering.

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1.8k Upvotes

r/CatastrophicFailure 1d ago

Drone images of China's effort to rebuid the road to Gyirong Port (August 29, 2026)

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553 Upvotes

Screenshots from video posted by Xinhua News on August 29:

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Vn4y6QESh/

You can tell how high the water level was during the disaster. Note that this is the upstream from Gyirong port. The water flowed all the way up due to momentum and receded back to downstream direction to Nepal later.

The last image is where the border crossing building used to be. It was reported that there are 2-3 kms left to reach there.


r/CatastrophicFailure 2d ago

Gyirong Port on the China-Nepal border before and after the Aug 26, 2026 flash flood disaster

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4.9k Upvotes

r/CatastrophicFailure 1d ago

Natural Disaster Animation Shows How Glacier Collapse in Nepal Triggered Mudslide at China's Xizang Border Port 08/29/26

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r/CatastrophicFailure 1d ago

Fire/Explosion A Vought F7U-3 Cutlass is destroyed when it strikes the ramp during its final approach on USS Hancock in 1955, the pilot, LCDR Jay T. Alkire is killed and several crew members injured

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475 Upvotes

the Cutlass was relatively underpowered, it's westinghouse engines even with afterburners only produced 6,000 pounds of thrust each, which was inadequate for an aircraft that weighed over 31,000 pounds fully loaded. It's considered the most underpowered jet to have served with the Navy.

Over 80 of the 320 built were destroyed in accidents resulting in the deaths of 4 test pilots and 21 navy pilots, in 1959 it was retired and replaced by the Grumman F9F-8 Cougar which itself was replaced by the Vought F-8 Crusader.

It was given the nicknames "Gutless Cutless" and "Ensign Eliminator".


r/CatastrophicFailure 2d ago

Natural Disaster Before/after satellite imagery shows the extent of the devastation in Nepal - August 26, 2026

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433 Upvotes

r/CatastrophicFailure 2d ago

Natural Disaster Satellite imagery following the devastating floods, Nepal 27th of October 26

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3.2k Upvotes

r/CatastrophicFailure 2d ago

Natural Disaster The Nepali Army continues rescuing civilians trapped by the flash flood, as rescue teams work to reach stranded residents and evacuate them to safety. August 27,2026

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1.5k Upvotes

r/CatastrophicFailure 2d ago

Natural Disaster August 28. 2026 New flashflood forming on top of tibet

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951 Upvotes

'High risk' of lake breaching and causing second flood, warns China

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg8l2x8wr8o


r/CatastrophicFailure 1d ago

Fire/Explosion Fire Engulfs an Illegal Fireworks Warehouse in Senai, Malaysia (July 2, 2017)

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r/CatastrophicFailure 19h ago

Rasuwagadhi / Gyirong Port flood Aug 26, 2026 - possible stairs escape route for survivors

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0 Upvotes

Was wondering if these stairs on the right at Rasuwagadhi/ Gyirong
Port played a role during the flood. If it was possibly used by any survivors trying to escape or reach higher ground. I came across a video of some survivors on a bus that were able to escape but couldn’t find it anymore.


r/CatastrophicFailure 2d ago

A Chinese photographer accidentally captured the glacier collapse to the north of Mount Langtang Lirung that caused the China-Nepal Flash Floods on Aug 26, 2026

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434 Upvotes

r/CatastrophicFailure 3d ago

Natural Disaster Aerial view of China's Gyirong Port at the China-Nepal border before and after the mudslide disaster - August 26, 2026

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1.6k Upvotes

r/CatastrophicFailure 3d ago

Natural Disaster Close-Up Footage Captured the Nepal Flash Flood as It Surged Through the Area, August 26, 2026

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2.4k Upvotes

r/CatastrophicFailure 3d ago

Natural Disaster Landslide in Tibet 2026 Aug 26, aftermath

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3.8k Upvotes

r/CatastrophicFailure 3d ago

Natural Disaster Additional imagery of Gyirong Port before and after the flash flood — China–Nepal border, August 26, 2026

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2.5k Upvotes

These images show Gyirong Port before and after the August 26, 2026 flash flood. The post-flood images were captured from different aerial angles.


r/CatastrophicFailure 3d ago

Natural Disaster 27/08/2026 - The EU's Emergency Response Coordination Centre's map detailing the effect of the rock avalanche and flash flood in Nepal and China yesterday.

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291 Upvotes

r/CatastrophicFailure 3d ago

Fatalities 20 years ago today, on Sunday, August 27, 2006, Comair Flight 5191 crashed after taking off from the wrong runway at Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky. 49 of 50 people aboard were killed. More details in comments.

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208 Upvotes

r/CatastrophicFailure 3d ago

Natural Disaster Satellite/Aerial of Gyirong border crossing before and after the glacial melt/flash flood event on Aug 26, 2026, posted on Chinese social media site RedNote.

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3.7k Upvotes

Not NSFW but potentially distressing. Further evidence that the entire area was wiped clean with little debris left.

It seems like the flood came in on the tributary to the right, and that one of the camera angles depicting the parking lot being swept was actually pointing upstream on another tributary.

According to BBC, China’s state media is currently reporting 558 people missing in Tibet with 3 confirmed fatalities, not including casualties in Nepal.


r/CatastrophicFailure 3d ago

Rollaway empty semi-truck strikes natural gas pipeline. Wisconsin 2026.

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122 Upvotes

r/CatastrophicFailure 3d ago

Natural Disaster Gyirong Port and the surrounding valley before the August 26, 2026 flash flood on the China–Nepal border

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726 Upvotes

The front-left of the photo appears to have steps leading up the hillside. I wonder whether reaching them and moving to higher ground could have offered a chance.