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34: Aberfan

One Friday morning in 1966 in a small town in Wales a mining spoils waste tip let go with a river of liquified rubble destroying buildings and a school. Killing 144 people, mostly children in their classrooms. The mechanics of how this happened are simple. The ignorance and economics of why this happened boggles the mind.

Related episodes:

• Causality Premium Giveaway
• Causality Episode 20: Stava Dam

Investigation and Reports:

• Coal Mining
• Aberfan Disaster
• Aberfan
• Thirty-year Rule
• Aberfan: The Mistake That Cost A Village Its Children
• Terrifying Tale Of Bungling Ineptitude
• Aberfan Lessons Learned
• Aberfan: The Geological Society

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33: 737 MAX

With two crashes in five months of the new 737 4th Generation a design flaw seemed likely. We look at how Boeings focus on cost-avoidance, grandfathering and bending probabilities during design would ultimately cost 338 people their lives.

Related episodes:

• Causality Episode 10: The Comet
• Causality Episode 14: Concorde

Investigation and Reports:

• FAA Finds New Safety Risk in Boeing 737 Max
• KNKT JT610 Final Report
• NTSB ASR-19-01 Safety Recommendation Report
• JATR Report: Boeing 737 MAX Flight Control System

History of Boeing:

• History of Boeing
• Boeing 737 Classic
• Boeing 737 Next Generation
• Boeing 737 MAX

Technical Information:

• 737 MAX: MCAS - The Boeing 737 Technical Guide
• Flight Controls - The Boeing 737 Technical Guide
• A quantum leap forward Aerospace Manufacturing Magazine
• Angle Of Attack
• Angle of Attack Sensor 0861FL1
• V Speeds
• Wing Root
• CFM International CFM56
• CFM International LEAP
• Fundamentals Of Airliner Performance: The Engine
• Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System: MCAS
• Using The 737-800 And 737-900 Flaps
• Understanding Flaps

Standards and Bulletins:

• AC 25.1309-1
• AC 25.1309-1A
• Hazard Classification Matrix Based On JAR AMJ 25.1309 Severity
• ICAO Annex 19: Safety Management
• EASA Type-Certificate Datasheet Boring 737
• FAA Advisory Circular 23.1309-1E
• FAA Advisory Circular 25-7C
• FAA System Safety Handbook Chapter 3: Principles of System Safety
• AMJ25.1309 Change 15

Fallout:

• Lion Air Flight 610
• American Airlines Fleet
• Southwest Airlines Fleet
• Southwest Airlines Pilots Sue Boeing Over 737 Max Grounding
• 737 Max Crisis: Boeing To Borrow $10B
• Boeing 737 Max Designed By Clowns
• Boeing 737 MAX Groundings
• Boeing 737 Max Plane Crash Victims Families Sickened By Fired Boeing CEOs Payout
• Boeing Announces Leadership Changes
• Boeing Statement On 737 MAX Return To Service
• Boeing Earnings Q2 2019
• Boeing Earnings Q3 2019
• Boeing Knew Of 737 Max Flaws Before Crash
• Boeing Left Safety Features Off 737 Max
• Boeing Misses On Earnings
• Boeing To Recommend Simulator Training For 737 Max Pilots
• Boeing Will Suspend 737 Max Production In January 2020
• Family Of Lion Air Co-pilot Sues Boeing
• Lion Air crash: Cockpit Voice Recorder Is Found By Divers

Forum Articles:

• What Are The Checklist Items For A Runaway Stabiliser Trim
• Why Can’t The 737 MAX’s Horizontal Stabilizer Autotrim Be Cut Out
• How To Disable The Stabilizer Trim Cutoff Switches
• What Is The Procedure To Disable MCAS
• How The Stabilizer Cutout Switch Functionality Changed From NG to MAX

Links of potential interest:

• Airline Pilot Salaries
• In Service Safety At Boeing: October 2014 Presentation
• Pilots Fought Automatic Safety System
• Boeing Statement on Lion Air Flight 610 Preliminary Report
• How A 50yr Old Design Came Back To Haunt Boeing
• AoA Vane Must Have Failed
• Flawed Assumptions Paved A Path To Disaster
• The 737 Max Has Cost Boeing $9.2B And Counting
• The Complaints Pilots Filed About Boeing’s 737 Max
• The Many Human Errors That Brought Down The Boeing 737 Max
• What Happened On Board The Lion Air Boeing 737 Max That Crashed

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32: Walkerton

In 2000 the small township of Walkerton Ontario witnessed the largest outbreak of E.Coli infections in Canada’s history. The water utility claimed the town water was safe, but it wasn’t and many people paid with their lives.

Links of potential interest:

• Walkerton Ontario
• Toronto Ontario
• Walkerton E. coli Outbreak
• Death On Tap: The Poisoning Of Walkerton
• The Walkerton Inquiry Report
• Heavy Rainfall and Waterborne Disease Outbreaks: The Walkerton Example
• Factors That Led To The Walkerton Tragedy
• Walkerton Death Toll Revised
• Ontario Pays $72M To Victims Of Walkerton
• The Walkerton Tragedy
• Inside Walkerton: Canada’s Worst-ever E. coli Contamination
• Walkerton Water Crisis Follow-up
• Town Finds Crisis Sharply Painful
• Walkerton 2 years later
• Walkerton Water Declared Safe To Drink
• Definition of Incompetent
• Grandfather Clause

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31: Black Energy

The evening before Christmas Eve in 2015 saw a widespread blackout of the power grid across the Ukraine. We look at how a cyber-attack on electric utility companies in Europe, changed how cyber-security is regarded in control systems, forever.

Links of potential interest:

• December 2015 Ukraine Power Grid Cyber-attack
• Analysis of the Cyber Attack on the Ukrainian Power Grid [PDF]
• Ukraine Report: When The Lights Went Out [PDF]
• Inside the Cunning, Unprecedented Hack of Ukraine’s Power Grid
• Cyber-Attack Against Ukrainian Critical Infrastructure
• Everything We Know About Ukraine’s Power Plant Hack
• BlackEnergy
• BlackEnergy, Grid-Disrupting Malware, Has a Successor, Researchers Warn
• Scary Questions in Ukraine Energy Grid Hack
• Ukraine Cyber Induced Power Outage: Analysis And Practical Mitigation Strategies [PDF]
• New Clues Show How Russia’s Grid Hackers Aimed for Physical Destruction
• Industroyer: An in-depth Look At The Culprit Behind Ukraine’s Power Grid Blackout
• Ukrainian Power Grids Cyber-attack
• Russian Translation: Obelnergo Message to Consumers
• MOXA UC-7408-LX Plus
• MOXA UC-7408-LX Plus Firmware Overwrite Vulnerability
• iRZ RUH2
• IRZ RUH2 3G Firmware Overwrite Vulnerability
• NCCIC: Ukrainian Power Attack
• US Wants To Isolate Power Grids With ‘Retro’ Technology To Limit Cyber-attacks
• LinkedIn Is A Hacker’s Dream Tool

 

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30: Tim Maia

As part of Rio's preparations for the Olympics in 2016 a cycling pathway was built adjacent to a narrow, congested roadway along a picturesque shoreline. When a section collapsed only months before the opening ceremony killing two people, the world looked on with growing concerns about the imminent Olympics.
With John Chidgey.

Links of potential interest:

• Deaths on Collapsed Rio de Janeiro Bike Path Deal Safety Blow to Olympic Host
• Anger Grows Over Rio Bike Path Failure - WSJ
• Questions Continue After the Collapse of Rio’s Cycle Path
• Faulty Planning Blamed for Deadly Collapse
• Padlocked and Falling Apart: Rio’s Olympic Legacy
• Bike Lane Collapse Kills People on Beach
• Are Brazil’s Corruption Scandals Finally Hitting the Olympics?
• Rio, the Olympics, and Broken Promises
• Architects Say Rio’s Olympic Bike Path Was Destined to Collapse
• Petition Calls for Complete Demolition of Cycle-path
• Judge Orders Closure of Rio Cycleway

Photo Gallery Links:

• Gallery of A Stretch of Rio de Janeiro’s Tim Maia Bike Path Collapses
• The Collapsed Area of the new Cycle Lane

Links of Interest (Portuguese):

• Queda da Ciclovia: Doações à campanhas feitas pela CONCREMAT e os Grandes Jogos
• Tweet: “‘Podre, tem que fazer tudo outra vez’, diz vice-prefeito sobre ciclovia Tim Maia, no Rio”
• PETIÇÃO PARA A DEMOLIÇÃO DA CICLOVIA DA AVENIDA NIEMEYER

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29: Flight 1549

In 2009 an AirBus A320 departing LaGuardia Airport in New York suffered a dual engine failure due to a bird strike during takeoff. In a highly improbable event an equally highly improbable landing in the Hudson River shocked and amazed the world. We look at what went right on Flight 1549.
With John Chidgey.

Links of potential interest:

• US Airways Flight 1549
• The Miracle On The Hudson
• NTSB Official Report (PDF)
• 49 CFR 830.2 Definitions
• CFM International CFM56
• Chesley Sullenberger
• Jeff Skiles
• What the ‘Sully’ Movie Gets Wrong
• LaGuardia Airport Diagram
• Cold Water Survival
• Medium Flocking Bird Test at Climb Condition

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