Materials Science & Engineering

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Examples of engineering failures include, but are not limited to:

• Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster
• Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
• Chernobyl Disaster
• Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
• Air France Flight 4590
• Apollo 13
• TWA Flight 800

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Connect search terms with AND: concorde AND accident

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