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History's A Disaster
Andrew
55 episodes
1 day ago
Send us a text The dawn over Luxor promises gold on stone and quiet air over the Nile—until one failed part turns awe into catastrophe. We unpack the 2013 hot air balloon crash from the ground up: how balloon flight really works, why landing is the most perilous phase, and how a single aging fuel line set off a chain reaction that no one could stop. With an eye for both human detail and hard mechanics, we follow the timeline from descent to basket fire, from runaway lift to midair explosion w...
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Send us a text The dawn over Luxor promises gold on stone and quiet air over the Nile—until one failed part turns awe into catastrophe. We unpack the 2013 hot air balloon crash from the ground up: how balloon flight really works, why landing is the most perilous phase, and how a single aging fuel line set off a chain reaction that no one could stop. With an eye for both human detail and hard mechanics, we follow the timeline from descent to basket fire, from runaway lift to midair explosion w...
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Society & Culture,
True Crime,
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History's A Disaster
Luxor Hot Air Balloon Crash
Send us a text The dawn over Luxor promises gold on stone and quiet air over the Nile—until one failed part turns awe into catastrophe. We unpack the 2013 hot air balloon crash from the ground up: how balloon flight really works, why landing is the most perilous phase, and how a single aging fuel line set off a chain reaction that no one could stop. With an eye for both human detail and hard mechanics, we follow the timeline from descent to basket fire, from runaway lift to midair explosion w...
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6 days ago
20 minutes

History's A Disaster
Dublin Whiskey Fire
Send us a text Blue flames raced down Dublin’s streets as thousands of gallons of whiskey burst from a burning warehouse and turned the Liberties into a flowing inferno. We take you straight into the 1875 Dublin Whiskey Fire—how casks exploded, why water made everything worse, and the moment a fire chief chose manure, ash, and tannery waste to smother an alcohol-fed blaze. It’s a wild story with sharp lessons on urban risk, crowd behavior, and the improvisation that saves cities when playbook...
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1 week ago
20 minutes

History's A Disaster
Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus Train Crash of 1918
Send us a text A midnight circus run. A hot axle on a curve. An empty troop train racing through signals toward a sleeping engineer. Before dawn near Ivanhoe, Indiana, steel met wood, kerosene met sparks, and one of America’s worst rail disasters turned a rolling home into a furnace. We walk through the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus Train crash of 1918 step by step—how the show moved by rail, why old wooden cars and open-flame lighting created lethal conditions, and how wartime fatigue and overwor...
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2 weeks ago
25 minutes

History's A Disaster
Apollo 13
Send us a text A routine moon mission that no one was watching turned into the most gripping survival story in spaceflight. We open on the quiet confidence of Apollo-era repetition, then snap into crisis as a routine cryogenic stir triggers an explosion that cripples the spacecraft and forces a complete rewrite of the plan. Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise retreat into the lunar module—built for two days on the Moon—and turn it into a four-day lifeboat while Mission Control, led by Ge...
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3 weeks ago
22 minutes

History's A Disaster
Meltdown at Three Mile Island
Send us a text A stuck valve. A wall of alarms. A company line that insisted everything was “fine.” We walk through the morning when Three Mile Island went from a routine shutdown to America’s most defining nuclear scare—and why the fallout was as much about trust as technology. Facebook: historyisadisaster Instagram: historysadisaster email: historysadisaster@gmail.com Special thank you to Lunarfall Audio for producing and doing all the heavy lifting on audio editing since April 13, 2025...
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1 month ago
32 minutes

History's A Disaster
Crash at Tenerife
Send us a text On a foggy March day in 1977, the tiny Los Rodeos Airport on Tenerife in the Canary Islands became an unintended host to multiple diverted jumbo jets after a terrorist bombing closed their intended destination. Among them were two Boeing 747s: KLM Flight 4805 and Pan Am Flight 1736. What happened next would claim 583 lives and revolutionize aviation safety forever. The KLM aircraft was piloted by Captain Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, the airline's chief flight instructor and th...
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1 month ago
23 minutes

History's A Disaster
The Fall Of The Pemberton Mill
Send us a text The thunderous crash of collapsing floors, desperate screams rising from beneath rubble, and the horrifying spread of flames that turned rescue into tragedy – these are the sounds and sights of the Pemberton Mill Collapse, one of America's deadliest industrial disasters that has somehow faded from our collective memory. Against the backdrop of the booming American Industrial Revolution, the Pemberton textile mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts stood as a monument to progress and p...
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1 month ago
27 minutes

History's A Disaster
The Unsolved Be-Lo Murders
Send us a text A shocking triple homicide shatters the peaceful facade of small-town Windsor, North Carolina, leaving a community forever changed and a killer who vanished without a trace. When people talk about small towns where everyone knows everyone and doors remain unlocked, they're talking about places like Windsor. With just 2,000 residents in 1993, this tight-knit community believed they knew all the faces that walked their streets—until June 6th, when an unmasked stranger turned a r...
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1 month ago
20 minutes

History's A Disaster
Sinking of the SS Eastland: Tragedy at the Dock
Send us a text A company picnic that ended in catastrophe. A passenger ship that should never have sailed. 844 lives lost just 20 feet from shore. The SS Eastland disaster remains one of America's deadliest maritime tragedies, yet has been largely forgotten by history. On that fateful July morning in 1915, thousands of Western Electric employees and their families boarded what was known as the "Speed Queen of the Great Lakes" for a day of celebration. Within minutes, the top-heavy vessel cap...
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2 months ago
22 minutes

History's A Disaster
American Airlines Flight 191
Send us a text The sky was clear on May 25, 1979, as American Airlines Flight 191 accelerated down the runway at Chicago's O'Hare Airport. Seconds after liftoff, the unthinkable happened—the left engine tore free from the wing, flipping over the top before crashing onto the runway. What followed was a desperate 31-second battle as the pilots fought to control an aircraft that was rapidly becoming uncontrollable. This catastrophic failure, claiming 273 lives, wasn't just bad luck. It was the ...
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2 months ago
20 minutes

History's A Disaster
1967 Skydiving Disaster
Send us a text A free jump from a historic World War II bomber—what skydiver could resist? But when eighteen experienced skydivers plunged through thick cloud cover on August 27, 1967, they faced a horrifying realization. Instead of the expected Ohio airfield below, they broke through to find themselves over the frigid waters of Lake Erie, miles from shore with just minutes before impact. The Lake Erie skydiving disaster highlights how quickly adventure can turn deadly when safety systems fa...
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2 months ago
17 minutes

History's A Disaster
The McDonald's Massacre
Send us a text On July 18, 1984, a sleepy border community in Southern California became the site of unimaginable horror when 41-year-old James Oliver Huberty walked into a McDonald's restaurant and unleashed what would become the deadliest mass shooting in California history. The San Ysidro McDonald's Massacre claimed the lives of 22 innocent people and left 19 others wounded during a 77-minute rampage that forever changed how law enforcement responds to active shooter situations. What drov...
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2 months ago
19 minutes

History's A Disaster
The 1988 Carrollton Bus Disaster
Send us a text Sixty-three excited teenagers and four adult chaperones boarded a church bus on a sunny May morning in 1988, anticipating a day of roller coasters and fun at Kings Island Theme Park. No one suspected their joyful outing would become the deadliest drunk driving accident in American history—and reveal fatal flaws in school bus design that would transform transportation safety forever. The collision itself wasn't fatal. Larry Wayne Mahoney, driving with a blood alcohol level near...
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3 months ago
19 minutes

History's A Disaster
The Sinking of the Essex Part 3: Heartbreaks & Bellyaches
Send us a text The final chapter of the Essex tragedy unfolds as a haunting testament to human survival instinct pushed beyond moral boundaries. After spotting land, the starved crew members experience a fleeting moment of hope—only to discover Henderson Island offers little salvation. Despite its lush appearance, fresh water remains scarce, forcing these desperate men to make an impossible choice: continue the journey or remain stranded. When tragedy forces them back to sea, nature's cruelt...
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3 months ago
32 minutes

History's A Disaster
The Sinking of the Essex Part 2: Thar She Blows
Send us a text The infamous true story that inspired Moby Dick unfolds in horrifying detail as we follow the crew of the Essex after their ship is deliberately rammed and sunk by an enraged sperm whale in November 1820. Twenty men, now stranded in three tiny whaleboats in the vast Pacific Ocean, face a harrowing fight for survival that will push them beyond human endurance. With their vessel destroyed in just ten minutes, the crew salvages what little they can—600 pounds of hardtack, limited...
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3 months ago
28 minutes

History's A Disaster
The Sinking of the Essex Part 1: The Real Life Moby Dick
Send us a text Massive whales hunted from tiny rowboats. Men covered head-to-toe in blood and oil. A ship sunk by an angry leviathan. Welcome to the brutal world of 19th-century whaling. "Oil makes the world go round." This simple truth connected our petroleum-powered present with a past fueled by whale oil. The Essex, an aging 87-foot whaling vessel from Nantucket, set sail in August 1819 under newly-promoted Captain George Pollard Jr. with a crew of twenty men. Most were inexperienced sail...
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3 months ago
27 minutes

History's A Disaster
The Monongah Mine Disaster
Send us a text America's deadliest mining disaster unfolded in an instant on December 6, 1907, when a broken coupling pin sent coal carts careening down rails, showering sparks through dusty mine air. What happened next would change mining safety forever. The Monongah Mining Disaster tells the harrowing story of miners trapped beneath West Virginia soil when explosions ripped through connected mines #6 and #8. With entrances collapsed, ventilation destroyed, and toxic gases filling every pas...
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3 months ago
14 minutes

History's A Disaster
The 2008 K2 Disaster
Send us a text Few mountains inspire both awe and dread quite like K2. Standing in the shadow of Everest's fame yet claiming a far deadlier reputation, the world's second-highest peak demands respect—one climber dies for every four who summit. During a fateful expedition in August 2008, that grim statistic would manifest in the mountain's deadliest single incident. After weeks of waiting for weather to clear, an international group of 25 climbers from multiple expeditions made their summit p...
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4 months ago
15 minutes

History's A Disaster
The 1999 Bourbonnais Amtrak disaster
Send us a text A semi-truck ignores flashing warning lights. An Amtrak train barrels forward at 79 miles per hour. Eleven lives are lost in the devastating collision that follows. The 1999 Bourbonnais Amtrak disaster stands as a sobering reminder of how quickly tragedy can unfold when safety protocols fail. The catastrophe began with truck driver John Stokes, who after a long day hauling steel, approached a railroad crossing in Bourbonnais, Illinois. Despite active warning signals, he attemp...
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4 months ago
22 minutes

History's A Disaster
The London Beer Flood of 1814
Send us a text Nobody expects to drown in beer. Yet on October 17, 1814, that's exactly what happened to eight Londoners when a massive vat at Horseshoe Brewery catastrophically failed, unleashing a 15-foot tsunami of porter beer through the impoverished streets of St Giles. The disaster began with something seemingly insignificant—a fallen iron hoop on a towering 22-foot wooden vat containing over 300,000 gallons of fermenting porter. Brewery clerk George Creek, with 17 years of experience,...
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4 months ago
14 minutes

History's A Disaster
Send us a text The dawn over Luxor promises gold on stone and quiet air over the Nile—until one failed part turns awe into catastrophe. We unpack the 2013 hot air balloon crash from the ground up: how balloon flight really works, why landing is the most perilous phase, and how a single aging fuel line set off a chain reaction that no one could stop. With an eye for both human detail and hard mechanics, we follow the timeline from descent to basket fire, from runaway lift to midair explosion w...