Talk:Engineering disasters

This page is very American centric, as if the rest of the world never got anything wrong. The Titanic sank due to poor engineering, for example. The St Francis dam doesn't rate a mention? Nothing from the heavy civil engineering field, just mechanical? St Francis Dam?

De Havilland Comet, DC-10 cargo doors, Chernobyl, Fukushima Daiichi, Concorde, The Vasa, Boston Molasses, The Banqiao Reservoir Dam (171,000 dead!!!).

Chann94501 (talk) 17:16, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Total agreement on that. Incredibly North America-centric. 72.106.148.177 (talk) 22:27, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

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Fraud & Malfeasance
I think people underestimate the prevalence of fraud & malfeasance in engineering disasters. It would improve the article if this could be mentioned. Vilhelmo De Okcidento (talk) 20:05, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

fails to define subject. rename to "causes of engineering disasters"?
the article fails to give a definition of what an engineering disaster actually is (or is considered to be), instead it mostly gives a short definition of engineering, and then lists causes and examples of disasters.

compare this to e.g. Natural_Disaster, which has a whole section for the definition, which starts "A natural disaster is ...". or to Disaster, "A disaster is ...". 77.23.1.131 (talk) 00:04, 28 February 2023 (UTC)