Showing posts with label major accidents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label major accidents. Show all posts

Saturday, January 03, 2026

The fatal fire at a Swiss ski resort on New Year’s Eve 2025

For Switzerland such a devastating and lethal fire in a business establishment is quite unusual to happen! About "40 people killed and injured 119, many of them severely" (Source)

Apparently, it was a bar has two-levels on the ground floor and in the basement.

How overcrowded was the bar at the time the fire broke out? Were the managers/owner of this bar culpable.

There was at least one news report that emergency exits were blocked.

Did this establishment not have fire sprinklers or did they not work properly?

Sunday, December 21, 2025

Debris from the recent explosion of SpaceX’s Starship posed a greater risk to civilian plane flights over the Caribbean Sea than was publicly known.

Bad news!

Recent news suggest there are plans to build data centers in space and so on.

"According to FAA documents reviewed by WSJ, two airliners and a business jet declared fuel emergencies and flew through a temporary no-fly zone as air-traffic controllers scrambled to keep planes away from the debris.
The documents also said that SpaceX didn’t immediately inform the agency about the explosion through an official hotline. SpaceX declined to comment. After WSJ's article was published, SpaceX said the Journal’s reporting was misleading and described the piece as containing incomplete information."

The Wall Street Journal What's news