Engineering Fails Thread

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Reposting an interesting thread we've had from a while back.

Post engineering fuckups and facepalms. Starting with a classic:

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse

114 people died because a rushed last minute design change had a damningly fatal flaw that nobody noticed because they were too lazy to check the drawings.